New King James Version
Haggai 1:4
4“Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, and this temple to lie in ruins?”
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?
- New International Version (NIV)“Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?”
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?
- New Living Translation (NLT)“Why are you living in luxurious houses while my house lies in ruins?
Context of Haggai 1:4
2“Thus speaks the Lord of hosts, saying: ‘This people says, “The time has not come, the time that the Lord’s house should be built.” ’ ” 3Then the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying, “Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, and this temple to lie in ruins?” 5Now therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: “Consider your ways! 6“You have sown much, and bring in little; You eat, but do not have enough; You drink, but you are not filled with drink; You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; And he who earns wages, Earns wages to put into a bag with holes.”
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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 7:2that the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells inside tent curtains.”
- Psalms 132:3“Surely I will not go into the chamber of my house, Or go up to the comfort of my bed;
- Matthew 6:33But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
- Philippians 2:21For all seek their own, not the things which are of Christ Jesus.
- Psalms 74:7They have set fire to Your sanctuary; They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name to the ground.
- Psalms 102:14For Your servants take pleasure in her stones, And show favor to her dust.
- Jeremiah 26:6then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.” ’ ”
- Jeremiah 52:13He burned the house of the Lord and the king’s house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, he burned with fire.
- Lamentations 2:7The Lord has spurned His altar, He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has given up the walls of her palaces Into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of the Lord As on the day of a set feast.
- Lamentations 4:1How the gold has become dim! How changed the fine gold! The stones of the sanctuary are scattered At the head of every street.
- Ezekiel 24:21‘Speak to the house of Israel, “Thus says the Lord God: ‘Behold, I will profane My sanctuary, your arrogant boast, the desire of your eyes, the delight of your soul; and your sons and daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.
- Daniel 9:17Now therefore, our God, hear the prayer of Your servant, and his supplications, and for the Lord’s sake cause Your face to shine on Your sanctuary, which is desolate.
- Micah 3:12Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed like a field, Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins, And the mountain of the temple Like the bare hills of the forest.
- Matthew 24:1Then Jesus went out and departed from the temple, and His disciples came up to show Him the buildings of the temple.
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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