Haggai 2:21,Haggai 2:22

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Haggai 2:21

governor. See note on Haggai 1:1 . I will shake. Compare the Structure p. 1276; and note on Haggai 2:6 . Hebrew I am shaking, or about to shake. Referring to a nearer shaking than Haggai 2:6 . the heavens and the earth. See note on Deuteronomy 4:26 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Haggai 2:21

Haggai 2:21. Speak to Zerubbabel, &c.— See this passage explained in the note on Haggai 2:6, &c. REFLECTIONS.—1st, Having set themselves heartily to their work, God encourages them by a second message, about a month after the former, to proceed in the building. Some, probably who had seen the former temple, which had been destroyed about seventy years, beheld with grief the present structure, so little comparable to that for magnificence; and perhaps discouraged the hearts of the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Haggai 2:21

21. to Zerubbabel—Perhaps Zerubbabel had asked as to the convulsions foretold (Haggai 2:6; Haggai 2:7). This is the reply: The Jews had been led to fear that these convulsions would destroy their national existence. Zerubbabel, therefore, as their civil leader and representative is addressed, not Joshua, their religious leader. Messiah is the antitypical Zerubbabel, their national Representative and King, with whom God the Father makes the covenant wherein they, as identified with Him, are... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Haggai 2:20-23

IV. A PROPHECY CONCERNING ZERUBBABEL 2:20-23"The final verses of his book reveal Haggai as the literary equivalent of an impressionist painter-he gives general tone and effect without elaborate detail." [Note: Motyer, p. 1000.] read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Haggai 2:21

Haggai was to tell Zerubbabel that Yahweh was going to shake the heavens and the earth. Again a divine judgment is in view (cf. Haggai 2:6). That Zerubbabel, not Joshua or the people, is the recipient suggests that the message deals with a royal prediction. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Haggai 2:1-23

2Words of Encouragement. The Glory of the Second Temple1-9. An encouraging message in counteraction of disparaging comments upon the Temple structure, setting forth the significance and glory of the new Temple.1. Seventh month] i.e. Tishri, September-October. This message was delivered just four weeks after the beginning of the work. So heartily had every one united in it that the general outline and character of the new edifice had become apparent. The Feast of Tabernacles was in progress.... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Haggai 2:20-23

(20-23) The Fifth Utterance.—The promise of Haggai 2:6-9 is enlarged. The heathen powers shall be consumed one of another, but the line of Zerubbabel shall stand secure, and be a witness to Jehovah’s faithfulness. Here, as in Haggai 2:6-9, the only satisfactory interpretation is that Haggai was charged with a prediction—purposely vague and indistinct in character—of the extension of God’s kingdom by the Christian dispensation. “Zerubbabel,” the descendant of David, includes in himself Him who... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Haggai 2:1-23

Christ, the Desire of Nations Haggai 2:6-7 The time when our Lord was to come is here predicted. I. This prophecy was uttered about five hundred years before the coming of our Saviour. How, then, can it be said to be a little while? a. It was a little while when compared with the time the people of God had already been kept waiting for the Messiah. b. It was short in the Almighty's own sight. It is not man's word, for things are measured in it by a standard which man never uses. II. What is... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Haggai 2:1-23

HAGGAI AND THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLEHaggai 1:1-15; Haggai 2:1-23WE have seen that the most probable solution of the problems presented to us by the inadequate and confused records of the time is that a considerable number of Jewish exiles returned from Jerusalem to Babylon about 537, upon the permission of Cyrus, and that the Satrap whom he sent with them not only allowed them to raise the altar on its ancient site, but himself laid for them the foundation-stone of the Temple.We have seen,... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Haggai 2:20-23

4. THE REINVESTMENT OF ISRAEL’S HOPEHaggai 2:20-23On the same day Haggai published another oracle, in which he put the climax to his own message by reinvesting in Zerubbabel the ancient hopes of his people. When the monarchy fell the Messianic hopes were naturally no longer concentrated in the person of a king; and the great evangelist of the Exile found the elect and anointed Servant of Jehovah in the people as a whole, or in at least the pious part of them, with functions not of political... read more

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Haggai 2:21

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Haggai 2:21

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Haggai 2:21

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Haggai 2:20-23

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Haggai 2:21

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Haggai 2:1-23

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Haggai 2:20-23

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Haggai 2:1-23

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Haggai 2:1-23

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Haggai 2:20-23

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