Bible Commentary

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. Hag 1:7 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider your ways. The call of God I. The person who issues this command. Note the Divine character of the speaker. The Lord of hosts. This name, containing in it every perfection, commands our regard and challenges our … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Haggai 1:7”

Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages [to put it] into a bag with holes. 6. Ye have sown much, &c.] The expostulation … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Haggai 1:6”

Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. 5. Consider ] Lit. set your heart upon, consider both their nature and (as what follows shews) their consequences; both what they are and to what they lead. The expression consider, set your heart, is used by Haggai no fewer than four times in … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Haggai 1:5”

[Is it] time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house [lie] waste? 4. for you, O ye ] Lit., for you, you: you, yourselves, R. V. The repetition of the pronoun is emphatic, “you are the people I mean;” or you in implied contrast to Almighty God, comp. 1Sa … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Haggai 1:4”

Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, And the word of the Lord came – o Before, he prophesied nothing, but only recited the saying of the people; now he refutes it in his prophecy, and repeats, again and again, that he says this not of himself, but from the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Haggai 1:3”

Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD’s house should be built. 2. speaketh ] Lit. saith, the same word as throughout the verse. this people ] possibly used as a term of reproach: comp. ch. Hag 2:14; Isa 8:11-12. the time is … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Haggai 1:2”

In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying, Ch. Hag 1:1-11. The First Prophecy … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Haggai 1:1”

At that time will I bring you [again], even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the LORD. 20. even in the time that I gather you ] The … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Zephaniah 3:20”

Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame. 19. I will undo all that afflict thee ] As R.V., I … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Zephaniah 3:19”

I will gather [them that are] sorrowful for the solemn assembly, [who] are of thee, [to whom] the reproach of it [was] a burden. 18. The language is very obscure. Perhaps: I will gather (lit. have gathered) those sorrowing far away from the solemn assembly, who are of thee (belong to thee), thou on whom … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Zephaniah 3:18”