THEOSISHaggai 1:2Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: This people saith: The time is not yet come for building the house of the Lord.
כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֛ר יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת לֵאמֹ֑ר הָעָ֤ם הַזֶּה֙ אָֽמְר֔וּ לֹ֥א עֶת־בֹּ֛א עֶת־בֵּ֥ית יְהוָ֖ה לְהִבָּנֽוֹת׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ezra 4:23Now the copy of the edict of king Artaxerxes was read before Reum Beelteem, and Samsai the scribe, and their counsellors: and they went up in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and hindered them with arm and power.
- Ezra 5:2Then rose up Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Josue the son of Josedec, and began to build the temple of God in Jerusalem, and with them were the prophets of God helping them.
- Neh 4:10And Juda said: The strength of the bearer of burdens is decayed, and the rubbish is very much, and we shall not be able to build the wall.
- Eccl 9:10Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.
- Eccl 11:4He that observeth the wind, shall not sow: and he that considereth the clouds, shall never reap.
- Num 13:31In the mean time Caleb, to still the murmuring of the people that rose against Moses, said: Let us go up and possess the land, for we shall be able to conquer it.
- Prov 26:13The slothful man saith: There is a lion in the way, and a lioness in the roads.
- Prov 26:16The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that speak sentences.