Haggai 2:15-19 WEB

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 2:15

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Haggai 2:19

Is the seed yet in the barn ?.... The seed for sowing the land, in order for the next harvest: this is by some answered in the affirmative, it was in the barn, it was not yet sown; this being the ninth month, the month Chisleu, which answers to part of our November; rather it should be in the negative, no, it was just sown; and therefore no conjecture could be made, whether it would be a good harvest, or not; yet the prophet, in the name of the Lord, promises them a good one so long before... 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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Haggai 2:18

Consider now from this day - I will now change my conduct towards you: from, this day that ye have begun heartily to rebuild my temple, and restore my worship, I will bless you. Whatever you sow, whatever you plant, shall be blessed; your land shall be fruitful, and ye shall have abundant crops of all sorts. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Haggai 2:15

Verse 15 I am under the necessity of joining all these verses together, for the Prophet treats of the same thing: and the import of the whole is this—that the Lord had then openly punished the tardiness of the people, so that every one might have easily known that they acted very inconsistently in attending only to their private concerns, so as to neglect the Temple. The Prophet indeed speaks here in a homely manner to earthly men, addicted to their own appetites: had they really become wiser,... read more

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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

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

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Haggai 2:19

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Haggai 2:18

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Haggai 2:15

The Pulpit Commentary - Haggai 2:10-17

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