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Haggai 1:4
4“Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?”
Haggai 1:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, and this temple to lie in ruins?”
- New Living Translation (NLT)“Why are you living in luxurious houses while my house lies in ruins?
Context of Haggai 1:4
2This is what the Lord Almighty says: “These people say, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the Lord’s house.’ ” 3Then the word of the Lord came through the prophet Haggai: “Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?” 5Now this is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways. 6You have planted much, but harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.”
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הַעֵ֤ת לָכֶם֙ אַתֶּ֔ם לָשֶׁ֖בֶת בְּבָתֵּיכֶ֣ם סְפוּנִ֑ים וְהַבַּ֥יִת הַזֶּ֖ה חָרֵֽב׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Haggai 1:4
- 2 Samuel 7:2he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God remains in a tent.”
- Psalms 132:3“I will not enter my house or go to my bed,
- Matthew 6:33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
- Philippians 2:21For everyone looks out for their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
- Psalms 74:7They burned your sanctuary to the ground; they defiled the dwelling place of your Name.
- Psalms 102:14For her stones are dear to your servants; her very dust moves them to pity.
- Jeremiah 26:6then I will make this house like Shiloh and this city a curse among all the nations of the earth.’ ”
- Jeremiah 52:13He set fire to the temple of the Lord, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down.
- Lamentations 2:7The Lord has rejected his altar and abandoned his sanctuary. He has given the walls of her palaces into the hands of the enemy; they have raised a shout in the house of the Lord as on the day of an appointed festival.
- Lamentations 4:1How the gold has lost its luster, the fine gold become dull! The sacred gems are scattered at every street corner.
- Ezekiel 24:21Say to the people of Israel, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am about to desecrate my sanctuary—the stronghold in which you take pride, the delight of your eyes, the object of your affection. The sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.
- Daniel 9:17“Now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of your servant. For your sake, Lord, look with favor on your desolate sanctuary.
- Micah 3:12Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.
- Matthew 24:1Jesus left the temple and was walking away when his disciples came up to him to call his attention to its buildings.
Commentaries on Haggai 1:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4Is it time for you - If the time be not come to rebuild the temple, it cannot be come for you to build yourselves comfortable houses: but ye are rebuilding your houses; why then do ye not rebuild the house of the Lord? The foundation of the temple had been laid fourteen years before, and some considerable progress made in the building; and it had been lying waste in that unfinished state to the present time.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4Is it time for you - You, being what you are, the creatures of God, “to dwell in your ceiled houses,” more emphatically, in your houses, and those “ceiled,” probably with costly woods, such as cedar. But where then was the excuse of want of means? They imitated, in their alleged poverty, what is spoken of as magnificent in their old kings, Solomon and Shallum, but not having, as Solomon first did (1 Kings 6:9, ויספן ), “covered the house of God with beams…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4Is it a time for you: Rhetorical questions in prophetic literature seek agreement, not a reply (see Haggai 2:3). This question aims to prevent listeners from making excuses in response to the message. The people's luxurious (paneled) houses contrasted with God's temple, which was desolate (in ruins) and unusable.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. Is it time--It is not time (Hag 1:2), ye say, to build Jehovah's house; yet how is it that ye make it a fit time not only to build, but to "dwell" at ease in your own houses? you, O ye--rather, for "you, you"; the repetition marking the shameful contrast between their concern for themselves, and their unconcern for God [Maurer]. Compare a similar repetition in 1Sa 25:24; Zec 7:5. ceiled--rather, "wainscoted," or "paneled," referring to the walls as…Read the comment
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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
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