Haggai 2:17

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,

21 “Speak to Zerubbabel, ^agovernor of Judah, saying:
^b‘I will shake heaven and earth.

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Barnes' Notes

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Haggai 2:17

I smote you with blasting and mildew, - two diseases of grain, which Moses had foretold Deuteronomy 28:27. as chastisements on disobedience and God' s infliction, of which Amos had spoken in these self-same words. Amos 4:9. Haggai adds the hail, as destructive of the vines. Psalms 78:47. Yet (And) ye turned you not to Me literally "there were none" - your, (accusative i. e., who turned you unto Me. The words are elliptical, but express the entire absence of conversion, of any who turned to God.

**Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Haggai 2:17:**

Zechariah 8:9
Revelation 8:7

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