Haggai 2:17

God reminds them that He sent blight, mildew, and hail, yet they did not turn to Him. His disciplines were meant to bring repentance.

Cross-references · 28

• Deut 28:22The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.
• Hag 1:11I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.”
• Hag 1:9You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.
• Amos 4:8–11People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
• 1 Kgs 8:37When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,
• Jer 5:3O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
• Exod 9:18–29Behold, at this time tomorrow I will rain down the worst hail that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded until now.
• Isa 62:8The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain to your enemies for food, nor will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled.
• Rev 2:21Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling.
• Jer 8:4–7So you are to tell them this is what the LORD says: “Do men fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not return?
• Amos 4:6“I beset all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
• Isa 9:13But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.
• Isa 37:27Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.
• Rev 9:20–21Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.
• Jer 6:16–17This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’
• Job 36:13The godless in heart harbor resentment; even when He binds them, they do not cry for help.
• Gen 42:6Now Joseph was the ruler of the land; he was the one who sold grain to all its people. So when his brothers arrived, they bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.
• Gen 42:27At the place where they lodged for the night, one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey, and he saw his silver in the mouth of the sack.
• Ps 78:46He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.
• 2 Chr 6:28When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemies besiege them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,
• Hos 7:9–10Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.
• Zech 1:2–4“The LORD was very angry with your fathers.
• Zech 7:9–13“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.
• Jer 3:24From our youth, that shameful god has consumed what our fathers have worked for—their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.
• 2 Chr 28:22In the time of his distress, King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD.
• Gen 42:23They did not realize that Joseph understood them, since there was an interpreter between them.
• Isa 42:25So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.
• Isa 28:2Behold, the Lord has one who is strong and mighty. Like a hailstorm or destructive tempest, like a driving rain or flooding downpour, he will smash that crown to the ground.

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