Haggai 1:1--2:23
second <08147> [second.]
sixth <08345> [the sixth.]
{Elul,} the sixth month of the ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of September.
through .... Haggai <03027 02292> [by Haggai. Heb. by the hand of Haggai.]
Zerubbabel <02216> [unto.]
[Salathiel.]
[Zorobabel, Salathiel.]
governor <06346> [governor. or, captain.]
Joshua <03091> [Joshua.]
Jehozadak <03087> [Josedech.]
[Jehozadak.]
people <05971> [This.]
through .... Haggai <03027 02292> [by Haggai.]
live <03427> [to.]
houses .... temple <01004> [and.]
then <0559> [thus.]
Think ....... doing <07760 01870> [Consider your ways. Heb. Set your heart on your ways.]
planted ............ filled <02232 07654> [have.]
eat <0398> [eat.]
holes <05344> [with holes. Heb. pierced through.]
[See on ver.]
hill country <02022> [to.]
build <01129> [and build.]
pleased <07521> [and I will take.]
honored <03513> [I will be.]
expected ..... but ............... away <06437> [Ye looked.]
They had used all proper means in the cultivation of their lands, and had "sown much;" but when they rationally entertained the most sanguine expectations of a large increase, they were strangely disappointed; and even what they had brought home was unaccountably wasted, as if the Lord had "blown upon it," and driven it away! And the reason was, because they neglected the temple, and left it in ruins, whilst they eagerly employed themselves in building and decorating their own houses; therefore they were visited by drought and famine, and by various diseases on man and beast.
it ... it ...... asks <05301 05002> [blow upon it. or, blow it away.]
asks <05002> [Why.]
you ................. Because <03282> [Because.]
called <07121> [I called.]
produce <03018> [upon all.]
Zerubbabel <02216> [Zerubbabel.]
respect <03372> [fear.]
Lord's ..... Lord's ............ Lord <03068> [the Lord's.]
says <05002> [I am.]
energized <05782> [stirred.]
governor ... Judah <06346 03063> [governor of.]
came <0935> [and they.]
seventh <07637> [the seventh.]
prophet <05030> [the prophet. Heb. the hand of the prophet, etc.]
governor <06346> [governor.]
survivors <07604> [is left.]
splendor <03519> [glory.]
heart ....... heart <02388> [now.]
says .................... says ............. says <05002> [for.]
<01697> [to the.]
spirit <07307> [so.]
fear <03372> [fear.]
just ....... once <0259> [Yet.]
little <04592> [it is.]
shake <07493> [and I.]
shake up <07493> [I will shake.]
treasures <02532> [and the.]
fill <04390> [I will fill.]
splendor <03519> [glory.]
declares <05002 0559> [saith.]
Whoever compares the description of the temple of Solomon, in the first book of Kings, with the most splendid accounts of the second temple, however adorned with costly stones and other magnificent decorations in after ages, must perceive that the former, being wholly overlaid with pure gold, was incomparably more glorious than the latter in its greatest magnificence; and the Jews themselves allow that the ark of the covenant, fire from heaven, the {Urim} and {Thummim,} the anointing oil, the {Shechinah,} or visible glory, and the spirit of prophecy, which distinguished the former temple, were wanting in this. In nothing, in fact, could the second temple excel the first in glory, except in the personal presence of "the Desire of all nations," He who is "the glory of the Lord," and the true temple, "in whom dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily," and who was the true {Shechinah,} of which that of Solomon's temple was merely a type. And if it be admitted that the presence of the promised Messiah was intended, then it will follow that "Jesus of Nazareth" was He; for the second temple, in which as the "Prince of peace" he preached peace and reconciliation with God, has been utterly destroyed for upwards of seventeen hundred years.
give <05414> [give.]
people <05971> [So is this people.]
offer <07126> [and that.]
laid <07760> [consider.]
before <02962> [from before.]
came .... heap ........... came <0935 06194> [when one came to an.]
blight <07711> [with blasting.]
hail <01259> [with hail.]
labor <04639> [in all.]
says <05002> [yet.]
Think .......................... resumed .... it <07760> [Consider.]
today .... day ........ day ... on <03117> [even.]
vine <01612> [as.]
today <03117> [from.]
twenty-fourth <0702> [in the.]
Zerubbabel <02216> [Zerubbabel.]
shake <07493> [I will.]
overthrow ............. overthrow <02015> [overthrow.]
overthrow ............. overthrow chariots <02015 04818> [and I will overthrow the chariots.]
people <0376> [every.]
Zerubbabel <02216> [O Zerubbabel.]
It seems evident that the Messiah is here described under the name of Zerubbabel, as elsewhere under that of David, whose kingdom, after these mighty convulsions, should supersede all others.
make <07760> [and will.]
chosen <0977> [for.]
