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Haggai 1:2 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

" Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD'S house should be built. "

Haggai 1:2

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1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,

2 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD'S house should be built.

3 Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,

4 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?

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From This Chapter

Haggai 1:1

"In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,"

Haggai 1:3

"Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,"

Haggai 1:4

"Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?"

Haggai 1:5

"Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways."

Haggai 1:6

"Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes."

Haggai 1:7

"Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways."

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