Tree of Life Version
Haggai 1:4
4“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this House lies 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 King James Version (NKJV)“Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, and this temple to lie in ruins?”
Context of Haggai 1:4
2“Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: ‘This people say the time has not come—the time for the House of Adonai to be rebuilt.’” 3Then the word of Adonai came through Haggai the prophet: “Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this House lies in ruins? 5But now,” thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: “Set your heart on your ways! 6You sowed much but bring in little. You eat but are never satisfied. You drink but not enough to get filled. You put on clothes but no one is warm. And whoever earns wages works for a bag full of 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 the prophet Nathan, “See now, I am living in a house of cedar, yet the ark of God remains within curtains.”
- Psalms 132:3“I will not enter the tent of my house nor lie on 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 after their own interests, not those of Messiah Yeshua.
- Psalms 74:7They set Your Sanctuary on fire, burning it to the ground. They defiled the dwelling place of Your Name.
- Psalms 102:14You will arise and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show favor to her, for the appointed time has come,
- 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 52:13Then he burned the House of Adonai, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem. He burned every large house with fire.
- Lamentations 2:7The Lord rejected His altar, despised His Sanctuary. He has delivered the walls of her citadels into the hand of the enemy. They raised a shout in the house of Adonai as if it were the day of a moed.
- Lamentations 4:1How dulled is the gold, how tarnished the fine gold. The sacred gems are poured out at the corner of every street.
- Ezekiel 24:21speak to the house of Israel, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘Behold, I will profane My Sanctuary, the pride of your might, the desire of your eyes and the longing of your soul. Your sons and your daughters that you have left behind will fall by the sword.
- Daniel 9:17‘So now, our God, listen to the prayers and petitions of Your servant, and cause Your face to shine upon Your devastated Sanctuary, for the sake of my Lord.
- Micah 3:12Therefore, because of you Zion will become a plowed field. Yes, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the Temple Mount will become a high place in a forest.
- Matthew 24:1Now when Yeshua went out and was going away from the Temple, His disciples came up to point out to Him the Temple 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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