Haggai 1:8

Haggai 1:8 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the Lord.
• New International Version (NIV)Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build my house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored,” says the Lord.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the Lord.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Go up to the mountains and bring wood and build the temple, that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified,” says the Lord.

Context of Haggai 1:8

6You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough to be satisfied. You drink but never have enough to be happy. You put on clothes but never have enough to get warm. The wage earner puts his wages into a bag with a hole in it.” 7The Lord of Armies says this: “Think carefully about your ways. Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house; and I will be pleased with it and be glorified,” says the Lord. 9“You expected much, but then it amounted to little. When you brought the harvest to your house, I ruined it. Why?” This is the declaration of the Lord of Armies. “Because my house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house. 10So on your account, the skies have withheld the dew and the land its crops.

Haggai 1:8 word by word

עֲל֥וּ הָהָ֛ר וַהֲבֵאתֶ֥ם עֵ֖ץ וּבְנ֣וּ הַבָּ֑יִת וְאֶרְצֶה־בּ֥וֹ וְאֶכָּבְדָ֖ה אָמַ֥ר יְהוָֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Go upעָלָה‛âlâh · to ascend: riseH5927
• to the mountainהַרhar · mountain: mountH2022
• and bringבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): bringH935
• woodעֵץ‛êts · tree: woodH6086
• and buildבָּנָהbânâh · to buildH1129
• the houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: homeH1004
• and I will take pleasureרָצָהrâtsâh · to acceptH7521
• in it, and I will be glorifiedכָּבֵדkâbad kâbêd · to honor: honourH3513
• saithאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
• the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068

Cross-references for Haggai 1:8

• 2 Chronicles 2:8Also, send me cedar, cypress, and algum logs from Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut the trees of Lebanon. Note that my servants will be with your servants
• Ezra 3:7They gave money to the stonecutters and artisans, and gave food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, so they would bring cedar wood from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, according to the authorization given them by King Cyrus of Persia.
• Ezra 6:4with three layers of cut stones and one of timber. The cost is to be paid from the royal treasury.
• Zechariah 11:1Open your gates, Lebanon, and fire will consume your cedars.
• Haggai 1:2“The Lord of Armies says this: These people say: The time has not come for the house of the Lord to be rebuilt.”
• Jonah 3:1The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time:
• Matthew 3:8Therefore produce fruit consistent with repentance.
• 1 Kings 9:3The Lord said to him: I have heard your prayer and petition you have made before me. I have consecrated this temple you have built, to put my name there forever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.
• 2 Chronicles 7:16And I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that my name may be there forever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.
• Psalms 87:2The Lord loves Zion’s city gates more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
• Psalms 132:13For the Lord has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his home:
• Haggai 2:7I will shake all the nations so that the treasures of all the nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,” says the Lord of Armies.
• Exodus 29:43I will also meet with the Israelites there, and that place will be consecrated by my glory.
• Isaiah 60:7All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered to you; the rams of Nebaioth will serve you and go up on my altar as an acceptable sacrifice. I will glorify my beautiful house.
• Isaiah 66:11so that you may nurse and be satisfied from her comforting breast and drink deeply and delight yourselves from her glorious breasts.
• John 13:31When he had left, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him.

Commentaries on Haggai 1:8

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8Go up to the mountain, and bring wood - Go to Lebanon, and get timber. In the second year of the return from the captivity, they had procured cedar trees from Lebanon, and brought them to Joppa, and had hired masons and carpenters from the Tyrians and Sidonians; but that labor had been nearly lost by the long suspension of the building. Ezra 3:7.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Go up into the mountain - Not Mount Lebanon, from where the cedars had been brought for the first temple; from where also Zerubbabel and Joshua had procured some out of Cyrus‘ grant Ezra 3:7, at the first return from the captivity. They were not required to buy, expend, but simply to give their own labor. They were themselves to “go up to the mountain,” i. e., the mountainous country where the trees grew, “and bring” them. So, in order to keep the Feast…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8Go up into the hills: The trees around Jerusalem were not enough for the temple project. Supplies would have been imported from Lebanon and Syria to the north. The challenge to rebuild my house highlights the importance of worship in the community's life and the need for a proper sanctuary so worship of the Lord might occur according to the law. The land would experience blessing and prosperity when the Lord’s temple (his dwelling place) was rebuilt…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. Go up to the mountain--Moriah [Rosenmuller]; Lebanon [Henderson]. Rather, generally, the mountains around, now covered with wood, the growth of the long period of the captivity. So Ne 8:15, "Go forth unto the mount," that is, the neighboring hills [Maurer]. wood--Haggai specifies this as being the first necessary; not to the exclusion of other materials. Stones also were doubtless needed. That the old walls were not standing, as the Hebrew interpreters…Read the comment

Topics related to Haggai 1:8

• Covetousness
• Liberality
• Lukewarmness
• Temple
• Worship

In the dictionaries

• I Will Be
• Glorify
• Haggai
• Joshua (3)

Commentaries on Haggai 1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings