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Haggai 1:2

King James Version (KJV)

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Haggai 1:2

Verse 2 of 15

Scripture focus

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 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Haggai 1:2

Theological / Devotional

Lord of hosts. See on Jer. 7:3.

Time that. The people advanced this false argument for their failure to accomplish the rebuilding of the Temple. They apparently misinterpreted the 70-year prophecy of Jeremiah, saying that the period of captivity had not been fully accomplished. Evidently they claimed to be waiting for the completion of 70 years from the destruction of the Temple in 587/586 B.C. (see Vol. Ill, pp. 99, 100), a period which would end in 518/517, a time somewhat later than that of these messages (520/519 B.C.; see on v. 1). The difficulties they encountered, which hindered their rebuilding of the Temple, they declared to be in the nature of a reproof of God for their premature haste. But the very fact that Darius had set aside the prohibition of Smerdis the usurper for the building of the Temple (see p. 1074) should have given the Jews every incentive to resume work on the house of the Lord (see EGW, Supplementary Material on Haggai 1:2).

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