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Text -- Haggai 2:1-12 (NET)
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The Glory to Come
2:1 On the twenty-first day of the seventh month , the Lord spoke again through the prophet Haggai :
2:2 “Ask the following questions to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel , governor of Judah , the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak , and the remnant of the people :
2:3 ‘Who among you survivors saw the former splendor of this temple ? How does it look to you now ? Isn’t it nothing by comparison ?
2:4 Even so , take heart , Zerubbabel ,’ says the Lord . ‘Take heart , Joshua son of Jehozadak , the high priest , and all you citizens of the land ,’ says the Lord , ‘and begin to work . For I am with you,’ says the Lord who rules over all .
2:5 ‘Do not fear , because I made a promise to your ancestors when they left Egypt , and my spirit even now testifies to you.’
2:6 Moreover , the Lord who rules over all says : ‘In just a little while I will once again shake the sky and the earth , the sea and the dry ground .
2:7 I will also shake up all the nations , and they will offer their treasures ; then I will fill this temple with glory ,’ says the Lord who rules over all .
2:8 ‘The silver and gold will be mine,’ says the Lord who rules over all .
2:9 ‘The future splendor of this temple will be greater than that of former times ,’ the Lord who rules over all declares , ‘and in this place I will give peace .’”
The Promised Blessing
2:10 On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month of Darius ’ second year , the Lord spoke again to the prophet Haggai :
2:11 “The Lord who rules over all says , ‘Ask the priests about the law .
2:12 If someone carries holy meat in a fold of his garment and that fold touches bread , a boiled dish , wine , olive oil , or any other food , will that item become holy ?’” The priests answered , “It will not .”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
HAGGAI |
Temple |
JOSHUA (3) |
Prophecy |
Nativity of Christ |
Jehozadak |
DESIRE OF ALL NATIONS |
Shealtiel |
Church |
Jesus, The Christ |
Remnant |
Zeal |
Righteous |
God |
JOSEDECH = JEHOZADAK |
TRINITY, 1 |
Joshua |
PRIEST, HIGH |
Temple, the Second |
Jeshua |
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NET Notes: Hag 2:1 Heb “the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying.” The MT has בְּיַד (bÿy...
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NET Notes: Hag 2:2 Many English versions have “Joshua (the) son of Jehozadak the high priest,” but this is subject to misunderstanding. See the note on the n...
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NET Notes: Hag 2:3 Solomon’s temple was demolished in 586 b.c., 66 years prior to Haggai’s time. There surely would have been some older people who remembere...
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NET Notes: Hag 2:5 The MT of v. 5 reads “with the word which I cut with you when you went out from Egypt and my spirit [which] stands in your midst, do not fear....
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NET Notes: Hag 2:6 Or “the heavens.” The same Hebrew word, שָׁמַיִם (shamayim), may be translated “sky&...
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NET Notes: Hag 2:7 Though the subject here is singular (חֶמְדַּה, khemdah; “desire”), the preceding plural pr...
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NET Notes: Hag 2:9 In the Hebrew text there is an implicit play on words in the clause “in this place [i.e., Jerusalem] I will give peace”: in יְ...
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NET Notes: Hag 2:10 Heb “the word of the Lord came to Haggai the prophet, saying.” This Hebrew expression is slightly different from the one in 1:1, 3; 2:1.
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NET Notes: Hag 2:11 Heb “Ask the priests a torah, saying”; KJV “concerning the law”; NAB “for a decision”; NCV “for a teaching...
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