Haggai 2:15-16
Context2:15 Now therefore reflect carefully on the recent past, 1 before one stone was laid on another in the Lord’s temple. 2 2:16 From that time 3 when one came expecting a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures from it, there were only twenty.
[2:15] 1 tn Heb “and now set your heart from this day and upward.” The juxtaposition of מָעְלָה (ma’lah, “upward”) with the following מִטֶּרֶם (mitterem, “before”) demands a look to the past. Cf. ASV “consider from this day and backward.”
[2:15] 2 sn Before one stone was laid on another in the
[2:16] 3 tn Heb “from their being,” idiomatic for “from the time they were then,” or “since the time.” Cf. KJV “Since those days were.”