Haggai 2:10-19 NIV

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 2:10

In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month ,.... The month Chisleu, which answers to part of November, and part of December: this was two months and three days after the former discourse or prophecy, and just three months from the time the Jews began to work in the house of the Lord, Haggai 1:14 in the second year of Darius ; the same year that all the former discourses and prophecies were delivered in: came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet ; for what he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Haggai 2:11

Thus saith the Lord of hosts ,.... To Haggai the prophet: ask now the priests concerning the law ; whose business it was to understand it, and teach it, and to answer questions, and resolve doubts concerning it; not of their own heads, and according to their fancies, will, and pleasure; but according to the rules and instructions given in the word of God: and as this was their office, they were the proper persons to apply to; and Haggai, though a prophet, is sent to the priests to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Haggai 2:12

If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment ,.... Or, "carry" it F17 ישא "portaverit", Munster; "portet", Varenius, Reinbeck. ; from one place to another in his pockets or bags, which were in the skirts of his garments. This is to be understood of the flesh of creatures offered in sacrifice, which were sanctified or separated for holy use; part of which belonged to the priests, who might carry it in their pockets to the proper place of eating it: and with his skirt do touch... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Haggai 2:13

Then said Haggai ,.... To the priests; having nothing to object to their answer; but being satisfied with it, he puts another question: if one that is unclean by a dead body ; by the touch of it, Numbers 19:11 , touch any of these, shall it be unclean ? that is, if such an impure person, who was so in a ceremonial sense, should touch any of the above things, bread, pottage, wine, or oil, or any meat, would not they become unclean thereby, and so not fit for use? and the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Haggai 2:14

Then answered Haggai, and said ,.... To the priests, and before the people; and made an application of these things to them, which was the thing in view in putting the questions: So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the Lord ; not only those people that were present and at work at the temple, but those that were absent, even the whole body of the people; who, though they were pure in their own eyes, yet were not so before the Lord; who knew their hearts, and the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Haggai 2:15

And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward ,.... This being their case, and they so polluted with sin, particularly through their neglect of building the temple; they are most earnestly and importunately entreated to "lay" it "to their hearts", to ponder it in their minds, and thoroughly consider how it had fared with them from this twenty fourth day of the ninth month, in which the prophet was sent unto them to encourage them in their work, and upwards or backwards, for some... 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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Haggai 2:17

I smote you with blasting ,.... That is, their fields and vineyards, with burning winds, which consumed them; with blights by east winds: this shows the reason of their disappointment, and that it was from the Lord, and for their sins, by way of chastisement and correction: and with mildew ; a kind of clammy dew, which corrupts and destroys the fruits of the earth; and is a kind of jaundice to them, as the word signifies; see Amos 4:9 , and with hail ; which battered down the corn... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Haggai 2:18

Consider now from this day and upward ,.... Or forward; for time to come, as the Vulgate Latin version: from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month ; before observed, Haggai 2:10 , even from the day that the foundation of the Lord's temple was laid, consider it ; not from the time it was first laid after their return upon the proclamation of Cyrus, but from the time they began to clear that foundation, and to build upon it; and which having lain so long neglected, the... read more

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Haggai 2:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Haggai 2:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Haggai 2:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Haggai 2:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Haggai 2:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Haggai 2:15

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Haggai 2:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Haggai 2:18

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