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Haggai 2:18 KJV
Haggai · chapter 2 · verse 18
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.Haggai 2:18 · King James Version
Haggai 2:18 in context
16Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
17I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.
18Consider 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.
19Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.
20And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- foundationyâçadto setH3245 →
- twentiethʻesrîymtwentyH6242 →
- Considersûwmto putH7760 →
- Considerlêbâbthe heartH3824 →
- upwardmaʻalproperly, the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from…H4605 →
- LORD'SYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
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This sermon was preached two months after that in the former part of the chapter. The priests and Levites preached constantly, but the prophets preached occasionally; both were good and needful. We have need to be taught our duty in season and out of season.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 10-19