CHAPTER
2
1 (2:2) In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day
of the month, the Lord spoke by Haggai the prophet, saying,
2 (2:3) Speak
now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, of the tribe of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak,
the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, saying,
3 (2:4) Who is
there of you that saw this house in her former glory? And
how do you now look upon it, as it were nothing before your eyes?
4 (2:5) Yet
now be strong, O Zerubbabel, says the Lord; and strengthen yourself, O Joshua the high priest, the
son of Jehozadak; and let all the people of the land strengthen themselves, says the Lord, and work,
for I am with you, say the Lord Almighty;
5 (2:6) and My
Spirit remains in the midst of you; be of good courage.
6 (2:7) For
thus says the Lord Almighty; Yet once I will shake the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the
dry land;
7 (2:8) and I
will shake all nations, and the choice portions of all the nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, says the
Lord Almighty.
8 (2:9) Mine
is the silver, and Mine the gold, says the Lord Almighty.
9 (2:10) For
the glory of this house shall be great, the latter more than the former, says the Lord Almighty: and
in this place will I give peace, says the Lord Almighty, even peace of soul for a possession to
every one that builds, to raise up this temple.
10 (2:11) On the twenty-fourth day
of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Haggai the prophet,
saying,
11 (2:12) Thus
says the Lord Almighty; Inquire now of the priest concerning
the law, saying,
12 (2:13) If a
man should take holy meat in the fold of his garment, and the fold of his garment should touch
bread, or stew, or wine, or oil, or any food, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said,
No.
13 (2:14) And
Haggai said, If a defiled person who is unclean by reason of a dead body, touch any of these, shall
it be defiled? And the priests answered and said, It shall be defiled.
14 (2:15) And
Haggai answered and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before Me, says the Lord; and so
are all the works of their hands: and whosoever shall approach them, shall be defiled because of
their early burdens: they shall be pained because of their toils; and you have hated him that
reproved in the gates.
15 (2:16) And
now consider, I pray you, from this day forward, before they laid a stone upon a stone in the temple
of the Lord, what manner of men you were.
16 (2:17) When
you cast into the grain bin twenty measures of barley, and there were only
ten measures of barley: and you went to the vat to draw out fifty measures, and there were but
twenty.
17 (2:18) I
struck you with blight and with mildew, and all the works of your hands with hail; yet you returned
not to Me, says the Lord.
18 (2:19) Set
your hearts now to think from this day forward, from the
twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, even from the day when the foundation of the temple of the Lord
was laid;
19 (2:20)
consider in your hearts, whether this shall be known on the grain floor, and whether yet the vine, and the fig tree, and
the pomegranate, and the olive trees that bear no fruit are
with you: from this day will I bless you.
20 (2:21) And the word of the Lord came the second time to
Haggai the prophet, on the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying,
21 (2:22)
Speak to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, of the tribe of Judah, saying, I shake the heaven, and the
earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
22 (2:23) and
I will overthrow the thrones of kings, and I will destroy the power of the kings of the nations; and
I will overthrow chariots and riders; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by
the sword striving against his brother.
23 (2:24) In
that day, says the Lord Almighty, I will take you, O Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, My servant,
says the Lord, and will make you as a seal: for I have chosen you, says the Lord Almighty.