Consider carefully from this day forward—from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the day the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid—consider carefully:
Parallel translations
- WEB ‘Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Yahweh’s temple was laid, consider it.
- KJV Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid, consider it.
- NKJV ‘Consider now from this day forward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid—consider it:
- NASB ‘Do consider from this day onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month; from the day when the temple of the Lord was founded, consider:
- NLT “Think about this eighteenth day of December, the day when the foundation of the Lord’s Temple was laid. Think carefully.
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Quick answer
God marks the precise day the temple's foundation was relaid as a turning point to remember. From this day forward things will change.
Overview
The repeated call to 'consider' fixes attention on the very day of renewed obedience, the twenty-fourth of the ninth month. It serves as a dividing line between past barrenness and coming blessing. God ties His favor to the people's return to faithful worship and work.
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Cross-references · 8
- Zech 8:9This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Let your hands be strong, you who now hear these words spoken by the prophets who were present when the foundations were laid to rebuild the temple, the house of the LORD of Hosts.
- Hag 2:15Now consider carefully from this day forward: Before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the LORD,
- Ezra 5:1–2Later, the prophets Haggai and Zechariah son of Iddo prophesied to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, who was over them.
- Zech 8:12“For the seed will be prosperous, the vine will yield its fruit, the ground will yield its produce, and the skies will give their dew. To the remnant of this people I will give all these things as an inheritance.
- Hag 2:10On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Haggai the prophet, saying,
- Hag 1:14–15So the LORD stirred the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and began the work on the house of the LORD of Hosts, their God,
- Deut 32:29If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
- Luke 15:17–20Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food? But here I am, starving to death!
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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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