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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Haggai 2:5

The words which I covenanted - The words stand more forcibly, because abruptly. It is an exclamation which cannot be forced into any grammatical relation with the preceding. The more exact idiom would have been “Remember,” “take to heart.” But the prophet points to it the more energetically, because he casts it, as it were, into the midst, not bound up with any one verb. This would be the rather done in speaking to the people, as David to his followers (1 Samuel 30:23, which Ewald compares,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Haggai 2:6

Yet once, it is a little while - This, the rendering of Paul to the Hebrews, is alone grammatical . “Yet once.” By the word yet he looks back to the first great shaking of the moral world, when God’s revelation by Moses and to His people broke upon the darkness of the pagan world, to be a monument against pagan error until Christ should come; once looks on, and conveys that God would again shake the world, but once only, under the one dispensation of the Gospel, which should endure to the... read more

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Haggai 2:7

And the desire of all nations shall come - The words can only mean this, the central longing of all nations He whom they longed for, either through the knowledge of Him spread by the Jews in their dispersion, or mutely by the aching craving of the human heart, longing for the restoration from its decay. “The earnest expectation of the creature” did not begin with the Coming of Christ, nor was it limited to those, who actually came to Him Romans 8:19-22. “The whole creation,” Paul saith,... read more

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Haggai 2:8

The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine - These words, which have occasioned some to think, that God, in speaking of the glory with which He should fill the house, meant our material riches, suggest the contrary. For silver was no ornament of the temple of Solomon. Everything was overlaid with gold. In the tabernacle there were bowls of silver, in Soloman’s temple they and all were of gold 1Ki 7:50; 2 Chronicles 4:8. Silver, we are expressly told, “was nothing accounted of 1 Kings 10:21 in the... read more

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Haggai 2:9

The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former - or, perhaps, more probably, “the later glory of this house shall be greater than the former;” for he had already spoken of the present temple, as identical with that before the captivity . “Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory, anti how do you see it now?” He had spoken of its “first glory.” Now he says, in contrast, its later glory should be greater than that of its most glorious times. In this case... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Haggai 2:1-3

Haggai 2:1-3. In the seventh month, &c. For the further encouragement of the people to proceed in rebuilding the temple, Haggai was sent again to them, about a month after he had been sent the first time, to assure them from God, that the glory of this latter temple, how little appearance soever there might be of it now, should be greater than that of the former. This message, or prophecy, of Haggai, was communicated a little before Zechariah was sent to them for the like purpose. Who... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Haggai 2:4-5

Haggai 2:4-5. Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel Do thou and all the rest of you exert yourselves, and proceed in rebuilding the temple with spirit and pleasure; for I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts And will enable you to bring the work to a happy issue. According to the word that I covenanted with you I will fulfil to you what I promised to your ancestors, namely, that I would be their God, and that it should be well with them, if they obeyed my voice; that I would keep them from... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Haggai 2:6-7

Haggai 2:6-7. Yet once Or, once more, ετι απαξ , as the LXX. render it, whom St. Paul follows, Hebrews 12:26. The phrase implies such an alteration, or change of things, as should be permanent, and should not give place to any other, as the apostle there expounds it. The expression, says Bishop Newcome, “has a clear sense, if understood of the evangelical age: for many political revolutions succeeded, as the conquest of Darius Codomanus, and the various fortunes of Alexander’s successors;... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Haggai 2:8-9

Haggai 2:8-9. The silver is mine Solomon’s temple was more richly adorned with silver and gold than this, and I, that am the Lord of all the world, could easily command the riches of it, and bring them together for beautifying this my house, if I took delight in, or wanted any thing of this sort. A like expression as this is used, Psalms 50:10, with regard to sacrifices. The glory of this latter house, &c. The glory of this second temple shall exceed that of the former, not in riches... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Haggai 2:1-9

A message of encouragement (2:1-9)Although the foundation of the temple had been laid sixteen years earlier, it had no doubt been damaged during the years of neglect. More work was necessary before construction could begin on the building itself. After the people had been at work for about a month, they could see enough of the rebuilt foundation to form an idea of the size of the proposed temple. Some of the very old people, remembering Solomon’s magnificent temple, may have commented that this... read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Haggai 2:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Haggai 2:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Haggai 2:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Haggai 2:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Haggai 2:9

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Haggai 2:1-3

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Haggai 2:4-5

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Haggai 2:6-7

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Haggai 2:8-9

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Haggai 2:1-9

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