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Haggai 2:15
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13 And Haggai said, “If one who is aunclean because of a dead body touches any of these, will it be unclean?” So the priests answered and said, “It shall be unclean.”  
14 Then Haggai answered and said, a“ ‘So is this people, and so is this nation before Me,’ says the Lord, ‘and so is every work of their hands; and what they offer there is unclean.  

Promised Blessing

15 ‘And now, carefully aconsider from this day forward: from before stone was laid upon stone in the temple of the Lord—  
16 since those days, awhen one came to a heap of twenty ephahs, there were but ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty baths from the press, there were but twenty.  
17 aI struck you with blight and mildew and hail bin all the labors of your hands; cyet you did not turn to Me,’ says the Lord.  
18 ‘Consider now from this day forward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from athe day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid—consider it:  
19 aIs the seed still in the barn? As yet the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yielded fruit. But from this day I will bbless you.’ ”  

Zerubbabel Chosen as a Signet

20 And again the word of the Lord came to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying,
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Haggai 2:15

And now, I pray you - Observe his tenderness, in drawing their attention to it , "Consider from this day and upward." He bids them look backward, "from before a stone was laid upon a stone," i. e., from the last moment of their neglect in building the house of God; "from since those days were," or from the time backward "when those things were," (resuming, in the word, "from-their-being" , the date which he had just given, namely, the beginning of their resuming the building backward, during all those years of neglect) "one came to a heap of twenty measures." The precise measure is not mentioned: the force of the appeal lay in the proportion: the heap of grain which, usually, would yield twenty, (whether bushels or seahs or any other measure, for the heap itself being of no defined size, neither could the quantity expected from it be defined) there were ten only; "one came to the pressvat to draw out fifty" vessels out of the press, or perhaps fifty poorah, i. e., the ordinary quantity drawn out at one time from the press, there were, or it bad become twenty, two-fifths only of what they looked for and ordinarily obtained. The dried grapes yielded so little.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Haggai 2:15:

Daniel 1:4
Zechariah 1:7
Zechariah 8:9

 

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