Haggai 2:5

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Haggai 2:1-9

Here is, I. The date of this message, Hag. 2:1. It was sent on the twenty-first day of the seventh month, when the builders had been about a month at work (since the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month), and had got it in some forwardness. Note, Those that are hearty in the service of God shall receive fresh encouragements from him to proceed in it, as their case calls for them. Set the wheels a going, and God will oil them. II. The direction of this message, Hag. 2:2. The encouragements here... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Haggai 2:5

According to the Word that I covenanted with you, when ye came out of Egypt ,.... Or rather, "with the Word, in or with whom I covenanted" F7 את הדבר אשר כרתי "cum verbo quo pepigeram", Junius & Tremellius; "cum verbo illo quo pepigi", Varenius; approved of by Reinbeck, Append. Doctrin. de Accent. p. 76, 77. , &c.; as some render it; that is, Christ, the essential Word, who was promised to the people of Israel at that time, Deuteronomy 18:15 and in whom all the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:1-5

God's message to his people by Haggai. "In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the Lord by the prophet Haggai, saying, Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, Governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to the residue of the people," etc. Here is the second Divine message addressed by Haggai to Zerubbabel, Joshua, and the residue of the people. Observe: 1 . The Divine message often comes from one man to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:1-9

Part II . THE SECOND ADDRESS : THE GLORY OF THE NEW TEMPLE . Haggai 2:1-5 —§ 1. The prophet comforts whose who grieve at the comparative poverty of the new building with the assurance of the Divine protection and favour. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:1-9

Returning despondency and renewed stimulus. In these verses we have the third of the earnest addresses delivered by the devoted seer to these temple fbuilders. In the first ( Haggai 1:3-11 ) he reproved them for their neglect and stimulated them to the performance of their duty. In the second ( Haggai 1:13 ), in few words, a single pregnant sentence, indeed, he assured them of God's presence with them now that they had repented of their negligence and were prepared to consecrate... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:3-5

Past and present. I. A SUGGESTION — Of the continuity of human history . Haggai's question assumes that the structure then erecting was not a new edifice (which it really was), but the old building set up again, though in faded splendour, which also it was, inasmuch as it was based on the foundations of the earlier pile. "This house in its former glory" meant that the prophet looked on the two houses as one, and the two eras represented by these houses, not as two distinct and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:4-5

The real presence. In contrasting the house the builders were now raising for God with the first temple, many a reference was doubtless made by the "ancient men" to "the ark of the covenant" and "the Shechinah," which had been the visible symbols of the Divine presence. What, after all, they would urge, could this new structure be without these precious tokens of the Lord, as being with them in all his majesty and might? Haggai therefore most appropriately laid great emphasis upon the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:5

According to the word that I covenanted. The Hebrew is simply, "the word that I," etc. Hence some have connected it with the verb "do" in the preceding verse, the intervening words being parenthetical. But there is intended no injunction respecting the observation of the old covenant, but a consolatory message under present despondency. Others take it with the verb that fallows: "the word and my Spirit remain among you." but it is best to leave the clause in the abrupt fashion in which it is... read more

Albert Barnes

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

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

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