Haggai 1
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Chapter 1
Chapter Overview:
Verses:
A reproof of the Jews for their delay in building, which had provoked God to punish them, ver. 1 - 11.
The peoples return to the work, whom the prophet, in God's name, encourages therein, ver. 12 - 15.
| 1:1 | Son - Adoptive son to Shealtiel, being of the royal line, but by nature, son of Pedaiah. Governor - Appointed to this by the Persian king, over the remnant returned out of Babylon.Joshua - A type of the great deliverer; one Joshua leads them into Canaan, another restores the temple. |
| 1:4 | Ceiled - Arched and richly adorned. |
| 1:6 | Have not enough - But what you eat doth not nourish or satisfy you. Are not filled - Your water quenches not your thirst, your wine does not revive your spirit. None warm - You have no comfort therein.With holes - Loses all his labour. |
| 1:8 | Take pleasure - I will accept your offerings, and hear your prayers. Glorified - Shew my majesty and account myself glorified by you also. |
| 1:9 | Came to little - But it answered not the expectation.I did blow - I blasted it. Ye run - You with eagerness carry on your own particular buildings. |
| 1:10 | Is stayed - God hath forbidden them, to drop down dew. |
| 1:11 | Upon men - The very blood, and constitutions of men were changed, and many diseases afflicted them. |
| 1:13 | In the Lord's message - ln the words of his master.The people - The whole assembly. |
| 1:14 | The Lord of hosts - By which name he delights to be known among the returned captives; and it was a name best suited to their present state, compassed on all hands with enemies. |