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Haggai 1:4

King James Version (KJV)

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Haggai 1:4

Verse 4 of 15

Scripture focus

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

Haggai 1:4 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Haggai 1:4

Theological / Devotional

Is it time? God rebukes the Jews for allowing their comfortable living in well-appointed houses to blind them to the need of rebuilding the Temple. How often men are alert to their own material needs and blind to their spiritual needs and to the needs of God’s work on earth. So long as men postpone the building of the Lord’s spiritual house (1 Peter 2:5), so long will its completion be delayed.

Cieled. From the Heb. saphan, “to cover in,” or “to panel [with wood]” (see Jer. 22:13-15).

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