Haggai 1
Lutheran reading notes
In Haggai chapter 1, the prophetic message develops the theme of rebuilding the temple and renewing covenant faithfulness. Lutheran interpretation often highlights the contrast between divine judgment against sin and the promise of grace that God provides for those who trust in Him.
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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, {by: Heb. by the hand of} {governor: or, captain}
Haggai 1:1 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
2
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.
Haggai 1:2 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
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{Is it} time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house {lie} waste?
Haggai 1:4 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. {Consider...: Heb. Set your heart on your ways}
Haggai 1:5 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {with holes: Heb. pierced through}
Haggai 1:6 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. {Consider...: Heb. Set your heart on your ways}
Haggai 1:7 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.
Haggai 1:8 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Ye looked for much, and, lo, {it came} to little; and when ye brought {it} home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that {is} waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. {blow...: or, blow it away}
Haggai 1:9 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed {from} her fruit.
Haggai 1:10 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon {that} which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
Haggai 1:11 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD.
Haggai 1:12 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then spake Haggai the LORD'S messenger in the LORD'S message unto the people, saying, I {am} with you, saith the LORD.
Haggai 1:13 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,
Haggai 1:14 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
Haggai 1:15 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.