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The
Promised Glory of the New House
2:1 In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth
day of the month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet
Haggai, saying,
2:2 Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor
of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high
priest, and to the residue of the people, saying,
2:3 Who is left among you that saw this house in her first
glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in
comparison of it as nothing?
2:4 Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be
strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be
strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work:
for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts:
2:5 According to the word that I covenanted with you when
ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear
ye not.
2:6 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a
little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth,
and the sea, and the dry land;
2:7 And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all
nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory,
saith the LORD of hosts.
2:8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the
LORD of hosts.
2:9 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of
the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will
I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.
Blessings for a Defiled
People
2:10 In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in
the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by
Haggai the prophet, saying,
2:11 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests
concerning the law, saying,
2:12 If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment,
and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or
oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered
and said, No.
2:13 Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead
body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the
priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.
2:14 Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and
so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every
work of their hands; and that which they offer there is
unclean.
2:15 And now, I pray you, consider from this day and
upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the
temple of the LORD:
2:16 Since those days were, when one came to an heap of
twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the
pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press,
there were but twenty.
2:17 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with
hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to
me, saith the LORD.
2:18 Consider now from this day and upward, from the four
and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that
the foundation of the LORD's temple was laid, consider it.
2:19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and
the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath
not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.
Zerubbabel the Lord’s
Signet Ring
2:20 And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the
four and twentieth day of the month, saying,
2:21 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will
shake the heavens and the earth;
2:22 And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I
will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen;
and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in
them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every
one by the sword of his brother.
2:23 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take
thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith
the LORD, and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen
thee, saith the LORD of hosts. |
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