Haggai 1:3

1:3 So the Lord spoke through the prophet Haggai as follows: ¹ 

Haggai 1:13

1:13 Then Haggai, the Lord’s messenger, spoke the Lord’s word to the people: ²  “I am with you!” says the Lord.

Haggai 2:1

The Glory to Come

2:1 On the twenty-first day of the seventh month, ³  the Lord spoke again through the prophet Haggai: ⁴ 

Haggai 2:20

Zerubbabel the Chosen One

2:20 Then the Lord spoke again to Haggai ⁵  on the twenty-fourth day of the month: ⁶ 

¹ tn Heb “and the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying.” Cf. the similar expression in v. 1 and the note there.

² tn Heb “Haggai, the messenger of the Lord, said by the message of the Lord to the people.” The Hebrew is highly repetitive; in keeping with contemporary English style this has been simplified in the translation.

³ tn Heb “In the seventh [month], on the twenty-first day of the month.”

⁴ tc Heb “the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying.” The MT has בְּיַד (bÿyad, “by the hand of” = “through” [so NAB, NIV, NLT] as in 1:1, 3); the Murabba’at Dead Sea text reads אֶל (’el, “to”), perhaps because the following command is given to the prophet.

⁴ tn Heb “and the word of the Lord came a second time to Haggai.” This Hebrew expression is like the one in 2:10 and is slightly different from the one in 1:1, 3; 2:1.

⁵ sn Again, the twenty-fourth day of the month was Kislev 24 or December 18, 520 b.c. See v. 10.