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Haggai 2 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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The Coming Glory of the Temple

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:1 - In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet:
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:2 - “Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, and say,
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:3 - ‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Is it not as nothing in your eyes?
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:4 - Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, declares the LORD. Be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land, declares the LORD. Work, for I am with you, declares the LORD of hosts,
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:5 - according to the covenant that I made with you when you came out of Egypt. My Spirit remains in your midst. Fear not.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:6 - For thus says the LORD of hosts: Yet once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:7 - And I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of hosts.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:8 - The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, declares the LORD of hosts.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:9 - The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says the LORD of hosts. And in this place I will give peace, declares the LORD of hosts.’”

Blessings for a Defiled People

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:10 - On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet,
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:11 - “Thus says the LORD of hosts: Ask the priests about the law:
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:12 - ‘If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment and touches with his fold bread or stew or wine or oil or any kind of food, does it become holy?’” The priests answered and said, “No.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:13 - Then Haggai said, “If someone who is unclean by contact with a dead body touches any of these, does it become unclean?” The priests answered and said, “It does become unclean.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:14 - Then Haggai answered and said, “So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, declares the LORD, and so with every work of their hands. And what they offer there is unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:15 - Now then, consider from this day onward.[fn] Before stone was placed upon stone in the temple of the LORD,
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:16 - how did you fare? When[fn] one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:17 - I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, yet you did not turn to me, declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:18 - Consider from this day onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since the day that the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid, consider:
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:19 - Is the seed yet in the barn? Indeed, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have yielded nothing. But from this day on I will bless you.”

Zerubbabel Chosen as a Signet

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:20 - The word of the LORD came a second time to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month,
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:21 - “Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I am about to shake the heavens and the earth,
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:22 - and to overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I am about to destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations, and overthrow the chariots and their riders. And the horses and their riders shall go down, every one by the sword of his brother.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:23 - On that day, declares the LORD of hosts, I will take you, O Zerubbabel my servant, the son of Shealtiel, declares the LORD, and make you like a[fn] signet ring, for I have chosen you, declares the LORD of hosts.”
ESV Footnotes
Or backward; also verse 18
Probable reading (compare Septuagint); Hebrew LORD, since they were. When
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