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Haggai 2:8
8The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
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
6“For this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: In just a little while I will again shake the heavens and the earth, the oceans and the dry land. 7I will shake all the nations, and the treasures of all the nations will be brought to this Temple. I will fill this place with glory, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. 9The future glory of this Temple will be greater than its past glory, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. And in this place I will bring peace. I, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, have spoken!” 10On December 18 of the second year of King Darius’s reign, the Lord sent this message to the prophet Haggai:
Read all of Haggai 2Haggai 2:8 word by word
לִ֥י הַכֶּ֖סֶף וְלִ֣י הַזָּהָ֑ב נְאֻ֖ם יְהוָ֥ה צְבָאֽוֹת׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Haggai 2:8
- 1 Kings 6:20This inner sanctuary was 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high. He overlaid the inside with solid gold. He also overlaid the altar made of cedar.
- 1 Chronicles 29:14But who am I, and who are my people, that we could give anything to you? Everything we have has come from you, and we give you only what you first gave us!
- Psalms 24:1The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it. The world and all its people belong to him.
- Psalms 50:10For all the animals of the forest are mine, and I own the cattle on a thousand hills.
- Isaiah 60:13“The glory of Lebanon will be yours— the forests of cypress, fir, and pine— to beautify my sanctuary. My Temple will be 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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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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