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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest and to the residue of the people, saying, Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing? It appears that the spirit of idleness had...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Speak now to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing? There could not have been many persons left who...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work: for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts: This is the second time that Haggai was sent with this message. It was so rich, so full, so divinely encouraging, that the Lord...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not. For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, Though as some read it, it is “but a little structure,” but our reading is, perhaps, better — it is but a little while.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not. For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; and I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts. The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts. The released captives had not much of it with which to build the second temple, but God had all that was needed, and he was willing to supply them with enough for all the needs of the great work which they had undertaken in his name.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts. The Prince of peace gave peace to many in that second temple.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, Here is another message from the Lord, and the date of its delivery is as carefully noted as the dates of those that had preceded it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying, If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No. Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD: since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the press vat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty. I smote you with blasting and with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid, consider it. Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you. That was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying, Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth; and I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that...