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Haggai 1

1 The time of the prophecie of Haggái. 8 An exhortation to build the Temple again.
1.In the second year of King aDarius, in the sixt month, the first day of the month, came the word of the Lord (by the ministry of the Prophet Haggái) unto bZerubbabél the son of Shealtiél, a prince of Judáh, and to Jehoshúa the son of Jehozadák the high Priest, saying.
2.Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not yet come, cthat the Lord’s House should be builded.
3.Then came the word of the Lord by the ministry of the Prophet Haggái, saying,
4.Is it time for your selves to dwell in your dfilled houses, and this House lie waste?
5.Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider your own ways in your hearts,
6.eYe have sowen much, and bring in little: ye eat, but ye have not enough: ye drink, but ye are not filled: ye clothe you, but ye be not warm: and he that earneth wages, putteth the wages into a broken bag.
7.Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider your own ways in your hearts.
8.Go fup to the mountain, and bring wood, and build this House, and gI will be favourable in it, and I will hbe glorified, saith the Lord.
9.Ye looked for much, and lo, it came to little: and when ye brought it home, I did blow iupon it. And why, saith the Lord of hosts? Because of mine House that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
10.Therefore the heaven over you stayed it self from dew, and the earth stayed her fruit.
11.And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the wine, and upon the oil, upon all that the ground bringeth forth: both upon men and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
12.When Zerubbabél the son of Shealtiél, and Jehoshúa the son of Jehozadák the high Priest with all the remnant of the people, heard the kvoice of the Lord their God, and the words of the ument iah, was expired, God raised up Haggái, Zechariáh and Malachí ple, which was a figure of the spiritual Temple and Church of God, ll were given to their own pleasures and commodities, he declareth t reward of their ingratitude, in that they contemned God’s honour, to the Lord, with the promise of greater felicity, forasmuch as the m he had promised, and by whom they should attain to perfect joy Prophet Haggái (as the Lord their God had sent him) then the people did fear before the Lord.
13.Then spake Haggái the Lord’s messenger in the Lord’s message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the Lord.
14.And the Lord stirred up ithe spirit of Zerubbabél, the son of Shealtiél a prince of Judáh, and the spirit of Jehoshúa the son of Jehozadák the high Priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people, and they came, and did the work in the House of the Lord of hosts their God.

Notes

1-a.
Who was the son of Hystaspis, and the third King of the Persians, as some think.
1-b.
Because the building of the Temple began to cease by reason that the people were discouraged by their enemies: and if these two notable men had need to be stirred up and admonished of their duties, what shall we think of other governors whose doings are either against God, or very cold in his cause?
2-c.
Not that they condemned the building thereof, but they preferred policy, and private profit to religion, being content with small beginnings.
4-d.
Showing that they sought not only their necessities, but their very pleasures before God’s honour?
6-e.
Consider the plagues of God upon you for preferring your policies to his religion, and because you seek not him first of all.
8-f.
Meaning, that they should leave off their own commodities, and go forward in the building of God’s Temple and in the setting forth of his religion.
8-g.
That is, I will hear your prayers according to my promises, 1 Kings 8.29.
8-h.
That is, my glory shall be set forth by you.
9-i.
And so bring it to nothing.
12-k.
This declared that God was the author of the doctrine, and that he was but the minister, as Ex. 14.31, Judges 7.20, Acts 15.28.
14-l.
Which declares that men are unapt and dull to serve the Lord, neither can they obey his word or his messengers before God reform their hearts and give them new spirits, John 6.44.