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The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:1

In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month. The seventh month is Ethanim or Tisri, answering to parts of September and Ootober. The twenty-first was the last and great day of the Feast of Tabernacles (Le 23:34, etc.), when It was the custom to celebrate the ingathering of the harvest. The joyous nature of this festival was sadly marred on this occasion. Their crops were scanty, and they had. no temple in whose courts they might assemble to pay their vows and offer their... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:1-5

God's message to his people by Haggai. "In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the Lord by the prophet Haggai, saying, Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, Governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to the residue of the people," etc. Here is the second Divine message addressed by Haggai to Zerubbabel, Joshua, and the residue of the people. Observe: 1 . The Divine message often comes from one man to... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:1-9

Part II . THE SECOND ADDRESS : THE GLORY OF THE NEW TEMPLE . Haggai 2:1-5 —§ 1. The prophet comforts whose who grieve at the comparative poverty of the new building with the assurance of the Divine protection and favour. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:1-9

Returning despondency and renewed stimulus. In these verses we have the third of the earnest addresses delivered by the devoted seer to these temple fbuilders. In the first ( Haggai 1:3-11 ) he reproved them for their neglect and stimulated them to the performance of their duty. In the second ( Haggai 1:13 ), in few words, a single pregnant sentence, indeed, he assured them of God's presence with them now that they had repented of their negligence and were prepared to consecrate... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:2

Speak now to Zerubbabel. The message is addressed to the heads of the nation, temporal and spiritual, and to all the people who had returned (see notes on Haggai 1:1 and Haggai 1:12 ). read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:3

Who is left among you! etc. It is quite possible that there should be some old people present who had seen Solomon's temple. Many have thought that Haggai himself was of the number. It was sixty-eight years ago that the temple was destroyed, and we can well believe that its remarkable features were deeply impressed on the minds of those who as boys or youths had loved and admired it. Ezra tells us ( Ezra 3:12 ) that "many of the priests and Levites" [when the foundation first was laid] and... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:3-5

Past and present. I. A SUGGESTION — Of the continuity of human history . Haggai's question assumes that the structure then erecting was not a new edifice (which it really was), but the old building set up again, though in faded splendour, which also it was, inasmuch as it was based on the foundations of the earlier pile. "This house in its former glory" meant that the prophet looked on the two houses as one, and the two eras represented by these houses, not as two distinct and... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:4

Be strong. This is repeated three times for emphasis' sake. The same exhortation was given by David to Solomon before the building of the first temple ( 1 Chronicles 28:10 ; comp. Joshua 1:6 , Joshua 1:7 , Joshua 1:9 ). Haggai seems to suggest comfort in the thought that such admonition was needed at that time as well as now when they are so depressed (comp. Zechariah 8:9 ). And work; literally, and do; ποιεῖτε : facite, The word is used absolutely, as often (camp. Isaiah... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:4-5

The real presence. In contrasting the house the builders were now raising for God with the first temple, many a reference was doubtless made by the "ancient men" to "the ark of the covenant" and "the Shechinah," which had been the visible symbols of the Divine presence. What, after all, they would urge, could this new structure be without these precious tokens of the Lord, as being with them in all his majesty and might? Haggai therefore most appropriately laid great emphasis upon the... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:5

According to the word that I covenanted. The Hebrew is simply, "the word that I," etc. Hence some have connected it with the verb "do" in the preceding verse, the intervening words being parenthetical. But there is intended no injunction respecting the observation of the old covenant, but a consolatory message under present despondency. Others take it with the verb that fallows: "the word and my Spirit remain among you." but it is best to leave the clause in the abrupt fashion in which it is... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:1-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:1-9

The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:1-9

The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:3-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:4-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:5

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