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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.
Haggai 2:16 — KJV
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Haggai 2:16
King James Version (KJV)
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Haggai 2:16
Verse 16 of 23
Commentary
Commentary on Haggai 2:16
Theological / DevotionalMeasures. This word is found in the LXX, not in the Hebrew. The “heaps” were of grain, which, when threshed, yielded only half of what the people expected. This harvest shortage represented the chastisement of God upon the people because of their negligence.
Pressfat. Heb. yeqeb, a press for wine or oil. Usually this consisted of two cavities in stone or in the ground, an upper one, in which the grapes or olives were pressed, connected by a channel to the lower one, in which the wine or oil was collected.
Vessels. The prophet had in mind the yield of oil or wine, which would be measured in one of the common Hebrew liquid measures such as the “bath” (see Vol. I, pp. 166, 167). The KJV translators appear to have supplied the word “vessels” to avoid a more specific term.
Press. Heb. purah, the lower trough of the wine or oil press in which the liquid collected.
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