Haggai 2:10-14

Blessings for a Defiled People

¹⁰ _t On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, _u in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, ¹¹ "Thus says the Lord of hosts: _v Ask the priests about the law: ¹² 'If someone carries _w holy meat in the fold of his garment and touches with his fold bread or stew or wine or oil or any kind of food, does it become holy?'" The priests answered and said, _x "No." ¹³ Then Haggai said, _y "If someone who is unclean by contact with a dead body _z touches any of these, does it become unclean?" The priests answered and said, "It does become unclean." ¹⁴ Then Haggai answered and said, _a "So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, declares the Lord, and so with every work of their hands. And what they offer there is unclean.

1. Cross References
   Haggai 2:18
   Consider from this day onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since the day that the foundation of the Lord 's temple was laid, consider:
   Haggai 2:20
   The word of the Lord came a second time to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month.
   
2. Cross References
   Haggai 1:1
   In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest:
   
3. Cross References
   Leviticus 10:10 - 11
   You are to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean.
   
4. Cross References
   Jeremiah 11:15
   What right has my beloved in my house, when she has done many vile deeds? Can even sacrificial flesh avert your doom? Can you then exult?
   
5. Cross References
   Haggai 2:14
   Then Haggai answered and said, "So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, declares the Lord, and so with every work of their hands. And what they offer there is unclean.
   
6. Cross References
   Leviticus 22:4
   None of the offspring of Aaron who has a leprous disease or a discharge may eat of the holy things until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean through contact with the dead or a man who has had an emission of semen.
   Leviticus 22:6
   The person who touches such a thing shall be unclean until the evening and shall not eat of the holy things unless he has bathed his body in water.
   
7. Cross References
   Numbers 19:22
   And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean, and anyone who touches it shall be unclean until evening.
   
8. Cross References
   Isaiah 64:6
   We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.