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Haggai 1 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

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A Call to Rebuild the Temple
(Ezr 5:1 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:1 - On August 29[fn] of the second year of King Darius’s reign, the LORD gave a message through the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Jeshua[fn] son of Jehozadak, the high priest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:2 - “This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says: The people are saying, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:3 - Then the LORD sent this message through the prophet Haggai:

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:4 - “Why are you living in luxurious houses while my house lies in ruins?

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:5 - This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says: Look at what’s happening to you!

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:6 - You have planted much but harvest little. You eat but are not satisfied. You drink but are still thirsty. You put on clothes but cannot keep warm. Your wages disappear as though you were putting them in pockets filled with holes!

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:7 - “This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says: Look at what’s happening to you!

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:8 - Now go up into the hills, bring down timber, and rebuild my house. Then I will take pleasure in it and be honored, says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:9 - You hoped for rich harvests, but they were poor. And when you brought your harvest home, I blew it away. Why? Because my house lies in ruins, says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, while all of you are busy building your own fine houses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:10 - It’s because of you that the heavens withhold the dew and the earth produces no crops.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:11 - I have called for a drought on your fields and hills—a drought to wither the grain and grapes and olive trees and all your other crops, a drought to starve you and your livestock and to ruin everything you have worked so hard to get.”
Obedience to God’s Call

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:12 - Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the whole remnant of God’s people began to obey the message from the LORD their God. When they heard the words of the prophet Haggai, whom the LORD their God had sent, the people feared the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:13 - Then Haggai, the LORD’s messenger, gave the people this message from the LORD: “I am with you, says the LORD!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:14 - So the LORD sparked the enthusiasm of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the enthusiasm of Jeshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the enthusiasm of the whole remnant of God’s people. They began to work on the house of their God, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:15 - on September 21[fn] of the second year of King Darius’s reign.
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Hebrew On the first day of the sixth month, of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. A number of dates in Haggai can be cross-checked with dates in surviving Persian records and related accurately to our modern calendar. This event occurred on August 29, 520 B.C.
Hebrew Joshua, a variant spelling of Jeshua; also in 1:12, 14.
Hebrew on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. This event occurred on September 21, 520 B.C.; also see note on 1:1a.
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