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.
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.
- BSB 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:
- 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 8:9Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.
- Hag 2:15And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:
- Ezra 5:1–2Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, even unto them.
- Zech 8:12For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
- Hag 2:10In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
- Hag 1:14–15And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,
- Deut 32:29O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
- Luke 15:17–20And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
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