New American Standard Bible 1995
Haggai 2:8
Haggai 2:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts.
- New International Version (NIV)‘The silver is mine and the gold is mine,’ declares the Lord Almighty.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, declares the Lord of hosts.
- New King James Version (NKJV)‘The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,’ says the Lord of hosts.
Context of Haggai 2:8
6For thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘Once more in a little while, I am going to shake the heavens and the earth, the sea also and the dry land. 7I will shake all the nations; and they will come with the wealth of all nations, and I will fill this house with glory,’ says the Lord of hosts. ‘The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine,’ declares the Lord of hosts. 9‘The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘and in this place I will give peace,’ declares the Lord of hosts.” 10On the twenty-fourth of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Haggai the prophet, saying,
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לִ֥י הַכֶּ֖סֶף וְלִ֣י הַזָּהָ֑ב נְאֻ֖ם יְהוָ֥ה צְבָאֽוֹת׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Haggai 2:8
- 1 Kings 6:20The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits in length, twenty cubits in width, and twenty cubits in height, and he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid the altar with cedar.
- 1 Chronicles 29:14“But who am I and who are my people that we should be able to offer as generously as this? For all things come from You, and from Your hand we have given You.
- Psalms 24:1The earth is the Lord’s, and all it contains, The world, and those who dwell in it.
- Psalms 50:10For every beast of the forest is Mine, The cattle on a thousand hills.
- Isaiah 60:13The glory of Lebanon will come to you, The juniper, the box tree and the cypress together, To beautify the place of My sanctuary; And I shall make the place of My feet glorious.
Commentaries on Haggai 2:8
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine - These words, which have occasioned some to think, that God, in speaking of the glory with which He should fill the house, meant our material riches, suggest the contrary. For silver was no ornament of the temple of Solomon. Everything was overlaid with gold. In the tabernacle there were bowls of silver, in Soloman‘s temple they and all were of gold 1 Kings 7:50; 2 Chronicles 4:8. Silver, we are expressly told…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-9Haggai’s second message assures the community that God remembers his promises, made by earlier prophets, to bless and restore them (for example, Isaiah 35; 40:1–11; 52:1–12; Jeremiah 32:36–44; 33:6–26).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. The silver is mine--(Job 41:11; Psa 50:12). Ye are disappointed at the absence of these precious metals in the adorning of this temple, as compared with the first temple: If I pleased I could adorn this temple with them, but I will adorn it with a "glory" (Hag 2:7, 9) far more precious; namely, with the presence of My divine Son in His veiled glory first, and at His second coming with His revealed glory, accompanied with outward adornment of gold and…Read the comment
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Notes
- 1. Haggai 2:8 1 Chr 29:14, 16; Is 60:17 ↩
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
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