Haggai 2:15

Haggai 2:15 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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:
• New International Version (NIV)“ ‘Now give careful thought to this from this day on—consider how things were before one stone was laid on another in the Lord’s temple.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Now then, consider from this day onward. Before stone was placed upon stone in the temple of the Lord,
• New King James Version (NKJV)‘And now, carefully consider from this day forward: from before stone was laid upon stone in the temple of the Lord—

Context of Haggai 2:15

13Haggai asked the priests another question: ‘If anyone touches a dead body, you know that you become unclean. If an unclean person touches any of these foods, would they also become unclean?’ The priests replied, ‘Yes, those things would be unclean.’ 14So Haggai told them, ‘This is what the Lord says: This nation and its people are just like that. They are unclean. So everything that they do is also unclean. All the gifts that they offer to me are unclean. I could not accept them. Think carefully what life was like before you started again to build the Lord's temple. Do not forget that. 16In those days, you hoped to get 20 bags of grain from your fields. But you only got ten bags. You hoped to get 50 jars of wine from your grapes. But you only got 20 jars. 17I sent bad weather and other problems to destroy all your crops. All your hard work came to nothing. But you still did not return to worship me, your Lord.

Haggai 2:15 word by word

וְעַתָּה֙ שִֽׂימוּ־נָ֣א לְבַבְכֶ֔ם מִן־הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּ֖ה וָמָ֑עְלָה מִטֶּ֧רֶם שֽׂוּם־אֶ֛בֶן אֶל־אֶ֖בֶן בְּהֵיכַ֥ל יְהוָֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And now, I pray you, considerלֵבָבlêbâb · heartH3824
• And now, I pray you, considerשׂוּםώûm ώîym · to set: considerH7760
• from this dayיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• and upwardמַ֫עַלma‛al · aboveH4605
• from beforeטֶ֫רֶםţerem · beforeH2962
• a stoneאֶ֫בֶן'eben · stoneH68
• was laidשׂוּםώûm ώîym · to set: putH7760
• in the templeהֵיכָלhêykâl · templeH1964
• of the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068

Cross-references for Haggai 2:15

• Haggai 2:18Remember today, the 24th day of the ninth month. You have started again to build my temple. Now you have built its foundation, think about what will happen from today.
• Haggai 1:5I, the Almighty Lord, tell you this: Think carefully about what is happening to you.
• Psalms 107:43Wise people should think about these things. They should understand the Lord's faithful love for his people.
• Isaiah 5:12You have wild parties with plenty of music and wine. You make music with your lyres, harps, tambourines and flutes. But you do not understand the things that the Lord is doing. You do not see the things that he has made.
• Hosea 14:9If you are wise, you should understand these things. If you understand, think carefully about them. The Lord teaches you to live in ways that are right. Righteous people live in those good ways. But people who turn against the Lord fall down and lose their way.
• Malachi 3:8I say to you, “A man should not rob God. But you are robbing me.” But you ask, “How do we rob you?” I say, “You do not give to me the tithes and the offerings that you should give.”
• Romans 6:21You did things that you are ashamed about now. Nothing good came from them. In the end, the result of those things is death.
• 1 Corinthians 11:31But if we think carefully about ourselves, then God will not need to punish us.
• Ezra 3:10The men who were building the Lord's temple finished the foundations. Then the priests put on their special clothes. They made a noise with their trumpets. The Levites (sons of Asaph) made a noise with their cymbals. They all stood to praise the Lord, in the way that Israel's King David had told them many years before.
• Ezra 4:24So the people did no more work on God's temple in Jerusalem. The work stopped until the second year that King Darius ruled Persia.

Commentaries on Haggai 2:15

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15And now, I pray you - Observe his tenderness, in drawing their attention to it, “Consider from this day and upward.” He bids them look backward, “from before a stone was laid upon a stone,” i. e., from the last moment of their neglect in building the house of God; “from since those days were,” or from the time backward “when those things were,” (resuming, in the word, “from-their-being”, the date which he had just given, namely, the beginning of their…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-19Verses 10-19 Many spoiled this good work, by going about it with unholy hearts and hands, and were likely to gain no advantage by it. The sum of these two rules of the law is, that sin is more easily learned from others than holiness. The impurity of their hearts and lives shall make the work of their hands, and all their offerings, unclean before God. The case is the same with us. When employed in any good work, we should watch over ourselves, lest we…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15consider carefully (see study note on Haggai 1:5): God gives blessing, whether spiritual or material, when his people obey him (Deuteronomy 30:6–10). Haggai urged the people to continue examining their own actions. This careful self-examination leads to repentance (turning back to God). He also called them to continue living in the fear of the Lord (respect and obedience toward God), which his first message had already begun to produce (see Haggai 1:7…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1515. consider--literally, "lay it to heart." Ponder earnestly, retracing the past "upward" (that is, backward), comparing what evils heretofore befell you before ye set about this work, with the present time when you have again commenced it, and when in consequence I now engage to "bless you." Hence ye may perceive the evils of disobedience and the blessing of obedience.Read the comment

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Commentaries on Haggai 2

• 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
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings