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Haggai 1:2 KJV
Haggai · chapter 1 · verse 2
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD’s house should be built.Haggai 1:2 · King James Version
Haggai 1:2 in context
1In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,
2Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD’s house should be built.
3Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
4Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- speakethʼâmarto sayH559 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- hoststsâbâʼa mass of persons , especially reg. organized forwarH6635 →
- housebayitha houseH1004 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
- timeʻêthtime, especially now, when, etcH6256 →
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It was the complaint of the Jews in Babylon that they saw not their signs, and there was no more prophet (Psa 74:9), which was a just judgment upon them for mocking and misusing the prophets. We read of no prophets they had in their return, as they had in their coming out of Egypt, Hos 12:13.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-11