Haggai 1

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¹In the second year of King Darius, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, ✦ ²“Thus speaks the Lord of hosts, saying: ‘This people says, “The time has not come, the time that the Lord’s house should be built.” ’ ” ✦ ³Then the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying, ✦ ⁴“Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, and this temple to lie in ruins?” ✦ ⁵Now therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: “Consider your ways! ✦ ⁶“You have sown much, and bring in little; You eat, but do not have enough; You drink, but you are not filled with drink; You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; And he who earns wages, Earns wages to put into a bag with holes.” ✦ ⁷Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Consider your ways! ✦ ⁸Go up to the mountains and bring wood and build the temple, that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified,” says the Lord. ✦ ⁹“You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says the Lord of hosts. “Because of My house that is in ruins, while every one of you runs to his own house. ✦ ¹⁰Therefore the heavens above you withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit. ✦ ¹¹For I called for a drought on the land and the mountains, on the grain and the new wine and the oil, on whatever the ground brings forth, on men and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.” ✦ ¹²Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the Lord their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the Lord their God had sent him; and the people feared the presence of the Lord. ✦ ¹³Then Haggai, the Lord’s messenger, spoke the Lord’s message to the people, saying, “I am with you, says the Lord.” ✦ ¹⁴So the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of the Lord of hosts, their God, ✦ ¹⁵on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Hag 2 ·17 Hag 1 ·14 Ezra 5 ·4 1 Kgs 17 ·3 Mal 2 ·3 Ezra 3 ·3 Lev 26 ·3 Deut 28 ·3

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The promise that the latter glory of the temple will exceed the former, and that God will shake the nations and bring 'the desire of all nations,' is fulfilled when Christ enters his temple.

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