Haggai 2:16

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Haggai 2:10-19

This sermon was preached two months after that in the former part of the chapter. The priests and Levites preached constantly, but the prophets preached occasionally; both were good and needful. We have need to be taught our duty in season and out of season. The people were now going on vigorously with the building of the temple, and in hopes shortly to have it ready for their use and to be employed in the services of it; and now God sends them a message by his prophet, which would be of use... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Haggai 2:16

Since those days were ,.... From the time the foundation of the temple was laid, unto the time they began to work again, which was a space of about fifteen or sixteen years: when one came to an heap of twenty measures , there were but ten ; when the husbandman having gathered in his corn, and who was generally a good judge of what it would yield, came to a heap of it on his corn floor, either of sheaves not threshed, or grain not winnowed, and expected it would have produced at... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Haggai 2:16

Since those days were - I have shown my displeasure against you, by sending blasting and mildew; and so poor have been your crops that a heap of corn which should have produced twenty measures produced only ten; and that quantity of grapes which in other years would have produced fifty measures, through their poverty, smallness, etc., produced only twenty. And this has been the case ever since the first stone was laid in this temple; for your hearts were not right with me, and therefore I... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:10-17

§ 1 . By an analogy drawn from the Law, Haggai shows that residence in the Holy Land and the offering of sacrifice do not suffice to make the people acceptable, as long as they themselves are unclean through neglect of the house of the Lord. Hence comes the punishment of sterility. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:10-19

Part III . THE THIRD ADDRESS ; THE CAUSE OF THE CALAMITIES WHICH HAD BEFALLEN THE PEOPLE , AND A PROMISE OF BLESSING . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:10-19

The parable of the holy and the unclean. I. THE LETTER OF THE PARABLE . Directed by Jehovah, Haggai proposes two questions to the priests. 1 . Concerning the law of communicated sanctity. Supposing the case of a man carrying in the skirt of his garment holy flesh, i.e. flesh of animals slain in sacrifice, and with his skirt touching bread, pottage, wine, oil, or any meat, the prophet desires to be informed whether the holiness which according to the Law (Le 6:27) was... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:10-19

The past and the future. Two months had now elapsed since, stimulated by the prophet's glowing words, the temple builders had resumed their labours (comp. Haggai 2:1 with Haggai 2:10 ). These months were of great importance with reference to agricultural interests, being the usual season for sowing the seed and planting the vines. That at such a time they should manifest so much zest in the work of rebuilding the temple proved how thoroughly in earnest they were; sad this earnestness... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:15-19

Man's temporalities. "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," etc. The subject of these verses is man ' s temporalities; or, in other words, his earthly circumstances, his secular condition. And the passage suggests three ideas in relation to this subject. I. THAT MAN 'S TEMPORALITIES ARE AT THE ABSOLUTE DISPOSAL OF GOD . Here the Almighty is represented as at one time, namely,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:16

Since those days were. The word "days" is supplied. Revised Version, "through all that time," viz. the fourteen years spoken of in Haggai 2:15 . Septuagint, τίνες ἦτε , "what ye were;" the Vulgate omits the words. When one came to an heap of twenty measures. The word "measures" is not in the Hebrew: it is supplied by the LXX ; σάτα (equivalent to scabs), and by Jerome, modiorum. But the particular measure is of no importance; it is the proportion only on which stress is... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Haggai 2:15-17

Haggai 2:15-17. And now, consider from this day, &c. Reflect on what has happened to you, from the time that a stop was put to the building of the temple, after the first foundation of it was laid, till you began again to rebuild it. And upward Or, forward. He had bid them look back, Haggai 1:5; Haggai 1:7; now he bids them look forward. Since those days All the time the temple lay neglected. When one came to a heap Namely, of corn, which seemed likely to produce twenty... read more

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