Indifference — calamity; Zeal — prosperity Haggai 2:15-19. Since then the Lord snatched away their food from their mouth, and they remained inattentive to such a judgement, it was a sure evidence of extreme stupidity. Amos 2:15 New International Version ... Haggai 2:22. From this day and forward, From the day in which was founded In the month of November no opinion could be formed, even by the most skillful, what produce they were to expect. He then adds affirmatively, neither the vine, nor the fig tree, nor the pomegranate, nor the olive had yet produced any thing; for it was the ninth month of the year; and the beginning of the year, we know, was in the month of March. Some read, And every work, etc., which is improper; for they were not smitten in their own bodies, but in the produce of the earth. 14 Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the Lord, and so is euery worke of their hands, and that which they offer there, is vncleane. In the temple; either strictly taken for the house of God, or more largely for the rest of the buildings about the house: this tacitly reproves their sloth; it was the temple they neglected, which they did long for in Babylon. 16 When anyone came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. 15. And yet what good has the obduracy of your hearts done you? Of the Lord; so much the greater their sin, for that it was the Lord’s temple was slighted. The first (1:1-15) was on the first day of the sixth month in the second year of Darius (1:1, August 29, 520 B.C.). Haggai and Zechariah were probably among the first exiles who returned with Zerubbabel. Before a stone was laid . He afterwards adds, I have smitten you with the east wind: for שדפון, shidafun, is to be taken for a scorching wind; and the east wind proved injurious to Judea by its dryness. And he shows by evidences that the Jews were unthankful to God, for they neglected the building of the Temple, and every one was diligently and earnestly engaged in building his own house. The temple was a type of that Church of which every individual believer is a living stone. Ver. The overthrow of the nations Haggai 2:20-22. Haggai 1 Zechariah 1 ... An integrated digital Bible study library - including complete notes from the NIV Study Bible and the NKJV MacArthur Study Bible, 2nd Edition - is just a step away! 2. 15. 1. from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord: the foundation of the temple was laid quickly after the Jews returned from Babylon, upon the proclamation of Cyrus, Ezra 3:10 but, through difficulties and discouragements they met with, they desisted from the work, and went no further; a stone was not laid upon it; or, as the Targum, a row, or course upon course, until this time: and now all the intermediate space of time between the first laying the foundation of the temple, and their present going to work upon it, the prophet would have them take particular notice of; how it had been with them, as to their outward circumstances; whereby it would appear, they had sinned, and the Lord had been offended with them. from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord. The day of the prophet"s message. As then there was still danger from the hail, from scorching winds, and also from rains and other things injurious to fruit and produce of the land, he says, that the harvest would be most abundant, the vintage large, that, in a word, the produce of the olive and the fig tree would be most exuberant. Before there was any hand set to the work of rebuilding the temple, which was interrupted for many years, after the return from Babylon. (Calmet). . From this day will I bless you. And what the Prophet testifies here respecting the fruitful produce of wine, and corn, and oil, and of other things, was still, as I have said, a stronger confirmation. Lay it, he says, on your heart. This being their case, and they so polluted with sin, particularly through their neglect of building the temple; they are most earnestly and importunately entreated to "lay" it "to their hearts", to ponder it in their minds, and thoroughly consider how it had fared with them from this twenty fourth day of the ninth month, in which the prophet was sent unto them to encourage them in their work, and upwards or backwards, for some years past: even. Their singular stupidity, that were no more affected with such manifest marks of God’s wrath upon them; no, though he had even snatched the meat out of their mouths, and kept them hunger-starved, which is the way of taming the most untameable creatures. 15 “‘Now give careful thought to this from this day on [ c ] —consider how things were before one stone was laid on another in the Lord ’s temple. Haggai reminds them that their presence in the Promised Land doesn't make everything they do holy. Let us proceed -, If we retain this meaning, we must consider this verse, and its repetition in verse 18, as the commencement of a sentence, which is completed at the end of verse 19, as intervening clauses. (Haydock) --- Your bad dispositions render them useless, Jeremias xi. From this day; this twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, Haggai 2:10. The truth of the prophecy might now be surely known, when God fulfilled what he had spoken by the mouth of his servant. We see then, that the Prophet dwells on two things,—he condemns the Jews for their neglect, and proves that they were impious and ungrateful towards God, for they disregarded the building of the Temple; and them, in order to animate them and render them more active in the work they had begun, he sets before them, as I have said, what had taken place. Teaching. 2. God then designedly withdraws his blessing often from the faithful, that they may hunger and thirst in this world; as though they lost all their labor in serving him. From this day and forward, ‘Whatever they do and whatever they offer there is defiled. ye have not returned to me.”. How does it look to you now? And others read it as a question, as though he had said, that the time of harvest was far off, and that what they had remaining was so small that it was not enough to support them. All your victims have hitherto been contaminated. He repeats what he had said, even from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. The target audience for the series includes pastors, scholar-teachers, and all serious students of the Bible. (h) Consider how God plagued you with famine before you began to build the temple. for instead of fifty casks he found only twenty. In the Temple of Jehovah. The expression literally is, “From your being to come,” i.e from the time in which you came, and found out the deficiency. He shows by proofs their conduct,—How? Haggai 2:15 Context. See Ezra 3:8; Ezra 5:2. The necessity of the duty pressed. Here the Prophet indirectly condemns their insensibility, as they were blind in things quite manifest; for he does not here direct their thoughts to heaven, nor announce deep mysteries, but only speaks of food and daily support. Lay it on the heart, he says; that is, Consider what I am going to say; from this day and heretofore, (153) he says, before a stone was laid on a stone; that is, from that day when I began to exhort you to build the Temple, consider what has happened to this very day. Using the laws of clean and unclean, God points out a principle that applies to Christians today. It is therefore no wonder that the Prophet treated them in the manner stated here. Haggai 1:1 - In the second year of Darius the king, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the Lord came by the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, on StudyLight.org The object of the service of this house is to keep before the eyes of men a standard of character higher than they meet with in common business and care. The Temple of Jehovah;—take notice; 19.Is yet the seed in the granary?— It is an obligation to lead respectable and decent lives. V. THE EXALTATION OF ZERUBBABEL Haggai 2:20-23. They all make frequent use of the title ''The Lord of Hosts.'' Haggai 2:19. From this day and upward] To the end that when I shall have blessed you with greater plenty, as Haggai 2:19, ye may recognize your sins, the cause of your calamities, and, remembering (as Jacob did his baculinam paupertatem, Genesis 32:10) your former penury, you may thankfully cry out with that noble Iphicrates; From how hungry to how plentiful an estate am I raised ( εξ οιων εις οια)! because God had dried up the ears, so they yielded not what they used to do; for husband men, by long experience, can easily conjecture what they may expect when they see the gathered harvest; but this prospect had disappointed the husband men. Haggai would tell these two leaders to rally the people to return and assume the real task at hand, to build spiritual things first. (2 Corinthians 6:7.) Affliction will harden the heart, if not referred to God as its author [MOORE]. Verses 1-15. The last three of Haggai's four messages are found in this second chapter (Hag. God had, indeed, abundantly testified, by various kinds of punishment that he was displeased with them: but when he now promises that he would deal differently with them, there hence arises a new and a stronger evidence. To sum up the first message: From the time you came to a heap of twenty. But the answer to this may be readily given: I indeed allow that it often happens that those who sincerely and from the heart serve God, are deprived of earthly blessings, because God intends to elevate their minds to the hope of eternal reward. We hence perceive the object of the Prophet: but I shall run over the words, that the subject may become more evident. And the pomegranate and the olive, it hath not borne;— 1. No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Haggai 2:15. The birthday of blessing. John Trapp Complete Commentary. 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