Tree of Life Version
Haggai 2:8
8“The silver is mine and the gold is mine!”—it is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot.
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 Adonai-Tzva’ot: “In just a little while I will shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land, 7and I will shake all the nations. The treasures of all the nations will come, and I will fill this House with glory,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot. “The silver is mine and the gold is mine!”—it is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot. 9“The glory of this latter House will be greater than the former,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot. “In this place, I will grant shalom”—it is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot. 10On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of Adonai came to Haggai the prophet,
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לִ֥י הַכֶּ֖סֶף וְלִ֣י הַזָּהָ֑ב נְאֻ֖ם יְהוָ֥ה צְבָאֽוֹת׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Haggai 2:8
- 1 Kings 6:20The inner Sanctuary was twenty cubits in length, twenty cubits in breadth and twenty cubits in height. He overlaid it with pure gold, and overlaid the cedar altar.
- 1 Chronicles 29:14“But who am I and who are my people that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For everything comes from You, and from Your hand we have given to You.
- Psalms 24:1A psalm of David. The earth is Adonai’s and all that fills it— the world, and those dwelling on it.
- Psalms 50:10For every beast of the forest is Mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
- Isaiah 60:13The glory of Lebanon will come to you —cypress, elm and pine together— to beautify the place of My Sanctuary. I will give to the place of My feet glory.
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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