I.
The introductory word
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In the
asecond year of
1Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of Jehovah came through
2Haggai the prophet unto
3bZerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, the governor of Judah, and unto
cJoshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,
II.
Jehovah's rebuke and charge concerning the delay of the building of His house
1:2-15
A.
Jehovah's rebuke
vv. 2-6
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Thus says Jehovah of hosts, saying, This people says, The time has not come, the time for the house of Jehovah to be built.
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Then the word of Jehovah came through
aHaggai the prophet, saying,
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Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled-up houses, while this
ahouse lies waste?
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Now therefore thus says Jehovah of hosts,
1Consider your ways.
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You ahave sown much, but you bring in
1little; you eat, but there is no satisfaction; you drink, but there is no being filled with drink; you dress yourselves, but there is no warmth in doing so; and he who earns wages, earns wages
to put them into a bag with holes.
B.
Jehovah's charge
vv. 7-8
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Thus says Jehovah of hosts, Consider your ways.
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Go up to the mountain and
1bring wood and build the house, and I will take pleasure in it and will be glorified, says Jehovah.
C.
Jehovah's further rebuke
vv. 9-11
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You looked for much, and yet
it amounted to little; and when you brought it home, I blew on it. Why? declares Jehovah of hosts. Because of My house that lies waste while you each
1run to your own house.
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Therefore over you the heavens withhold their
adew, and the earth withholds its yield.
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Indeed I called for a
adrought upon the land and upon the mountains and upon the grain and upon the new wine and upon the fresh oil and upon that which the ground brings forth and upon man and upon beast and upon all the toil of the hands.
D.
The people's response
vv. 12-15
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And aZerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all the remnant of the people listened to the voice of Jehovah their God and to the words of Haggai the prophet, as Jehovah their God had sent him; and the people were in fear before Jehovah.
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Then Haggai, Jehovah’s messenger, spoke in Jehovah’s message to the people, saying, I am with you, declares Jehovah.
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And Jehovah
astirred up the
1spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, the governor of Judah, and the
1spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the
1spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did
2work in the
bhouse of Jehovah of hosts their God,
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On the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
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