Komentaryo ng kabanata
Haggai Kabanata 1
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HAG 1:1
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HAG 1:2
Haggai 1:2. This people say, The time is not come— The Jews said this, not because they denied that the seventy years were completed, after which the prophets had foretold that the temple should be rebuilt,—for it was extremely easy to compute those years; but, because they feared the king of Persia, and were greater time-servers, than believers in God. See Houbigant.
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HAG 1:4
Haggai 1:4. Is it time for you, &c.— Is the time come for you to inhabit your ceiled houses, while that house lieth desolate? This is in answer to Haggai 1:2. "You complain of the times; yet they have not been so difficult but you have found means and opportunity to build fine houses for yourselves, though you are content to let the house of the Most High continue in ruins." See Houbigant and Calmet.
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HAG 1:6
Haggai 1:6. Ye have sown much, and bring in little— "Consider both your ingratitude in neglecting to restore my house and worship; and what you have acquired by your dealings: while devoid of my blessing and protection, none of your undertakings thrive; nor do you enjoy the fruits of your labour: the reason of this is evident." See Haggai 1:9.
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HAG 1:9
Haggai 1:9. I did blow upon it— I blasted it.
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Haggai 1:1. Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel— Zerubbabel was of the family of David, the grandson of Jechoniah, and the son of Shealtiel, as he is said to be here, and in Mat 1:12 or the son of Pedaiah, and the grandson of Shealtiel, as it seems we ought to infer from 1Ch 3:18 or, most probably, the son of Pedaiah by nature, and of Salathiel by adoption. He is called the governor, not the king of Judah. See 1Ki 20:24 which is the rather to be observed, as there are some who strangely apply to Zerubbabel those prophesies wherein it is foretold that Israel should return and serve David their king; prophesies which pertain only to Messiah, the king of the Jews. Josedech was high-priest in the reign of Zedekiah, and was carried away captive by Nebuchadnezzar. See 1 Chronicles 6:15. His son succeeded him in the same dignity, when Judah returned from captivity, being confirmed in his office by the great Sanhedrin. See Grotius and Calmet.
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