Back to Share Jesus' Love | New Covenant Books | About the Old Covenant |  Old Covenant Books: Genesis  Exodus  Leviticus  Numbers  Deuteronomy  Joshua  Judges  Ruth  1 Samuel  2 Samuel  1 Kings  2 Kings  1 Chronicles  2 Chronicles  Ezra  Nehemiah  Esther  Job  Psalms  Proverbs  Ecclesiastes  Song of Solomon  Isaiah  Jeremiah  Lamentations  Ezekiel  Daniel  Hosea  Joel  Amos  Obadiah  Jonah  Micah  Nahum  Habakkuk  Zephaniah  Haggai  Zechariah  Malachi

Haggai 1

A Call to Rebuild the Temple
(Ezra 5:1–5)

1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the Word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying, 2 Thus speaketh the LORD of Armies, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD’S house should be built. 3 Then came the Word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, 4 Is it time for you, O you, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste? 5 Now therefore thus says the LORD of Armies; Consider your ways. 6 You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but you have not enough; you drink, but you are not filled with drink; you clothe yourselves, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

7 Thus says the LORD of Armies; Consider your ways. 8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, says the LORD. 9 You looked for much, and lo, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? says the LORD of Armies. Because of my house that is waste, and you run every man to his own house. 10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit. 11 And I called for a drouth upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of the hands.

The People Obey

12 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD. 13 Then spoke Haggai the LORD’S messenger in the LORD’S message to the people, saying, I am with you, says the LORD. 14 And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and performed work in the house of the LORD of Armies, their God, 15 In the four and twentieth day of the same month, in the second year of Darius the king.

Haggai 2

WBT

The Coming Glory of God’s House

1 In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the Word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai, saying, 2 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, saying, 3 Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do you see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing? 4 Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, says the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all you people of the land, says the LORD, and work: for I am with you, says the LORD of Armies: 5 According to the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear you not. 6 For thus says the LORD of Armies; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; 7 And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations will come: and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of Armies. 8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the LORD of Armies. 9 The glory of this latter house will be greater than of the former, says the LORD of Armies: and in this place will I give peace, says the LORD of Armies.

Blessings for a Defiled People

10 In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the Word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, 11 Thus says the LORD of Armies, Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying, 12 If one will bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt will touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any food, will it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No. 13 Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body will touch any of these, will it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It will be unclean. 14 Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, says the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean. 15 And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD: 16 Since those days were, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the press-vat to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty. 17 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labors of your hands; yet you turned not to me, says the LORD. 18 Consider now from this day, and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD’S temple was laid, consider it. 19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yes, as yet the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-tree, has not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.

Zerubbabel the LORD’s Signet Ring

20 And again the Word of the LORD came to Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying, 21 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth; 22 And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen: and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders will come down, everyone by the sword of his brother. 23 In that day, says the LORD of Armies, will I take you, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, says the LORD, and will make you as a signet; for I have chosen you, says the LORD of Armies.