Haggai 1:11

1:11 Moreover, I have called for a drought that will affect the fields, the hill country, the grain, new wine, fresh olive oil, and everything that grows from the ground; it also will harm people, animals, and everything they produce.’” ¹ 

Haggai 2:18

2:18 ‘Think carefully about the past: ²  from today, the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, ³  to the day work on the temple of the Lord was resumed, ⁴  think about it. ⁵ 

[1:11]  ¹ tn Heb “all the labor of hands” (similar KJV, NASB, NIV); cf. NAB “all that is produced by hand.”

[2:18]  ² tn Heb “set your heart.” A similar expression occurs in v. 15.

[2:18]  ³ sn The twenty-fourth day of the ninth month was Kislev 24 or December 18, 520. See v. 10. Here the reference is to “today,” the day the oracle is being delivered.

[2:18]  ⁴ sn The day work…was resumed. This does not refer to the initial founding of the Jerusalem temple in 536 b.c. but to the renewal of construction three months earlier (see 1:15). This is clear from the situation described in v. 19 which accords with the food scarcities of that time already detailed in Hag 1:10-11.

[2:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “set your heart.” A similar expression occurs in v. 15 and at the beginning of this verse.