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Haggai 2:18
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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. 
22 aI will overthrow the throne of kingdoms;
I will destroy the strength of the Gentile kingdoms.
bI will overthrow the chariots
And those who ride in them;
The horses and their riders shall come down,
Every one by the sword of his brother.  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Haggai 2:18

Resumed from Haggai 2:15 after Haggai 2:16-17, that the blessing in Haggai 2:19 may stand in the more marked contrast with the curse in Haggai 2:16-17. Affliction will harden the heart, if not referred to God as its author [MOORE].

even from the day that the foundation of . . . temple was laid—The first foundation beneath the earth had been long ago laid in the second year of Cyrus, 535 BC (Ezra 3:10-11); the foundation now laid was the secondary one, which, above the earth, was laid on the previous work [TIRINUS]. Or, translate, "From this day on which the temple is being begun," namely, on the foundations long ago laid [GROTIUS]. MAURER translates, "Consider . . . from the four and twentieth day . . . to (the time which has elapsed) from the day on which the foundation . . . was laid." The Hebrew supports English Version.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Haggai 2:18:

Haggai 1:8
Haggai 1:14
Haggai 2:10
Haggai 2:10
Zechariah 1:16
Zechariah 8:9-13

 

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