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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Haggai 1 This chapter contains the first sermon of the Prophet Haggai to the people of the Jews, directed to Zerubbabel the governor, and Joshua the high priest; the date of which is fixed, Haggai 1:1. It begins with a charge against that people; saying the time to build the house of the Lord was not come, Haggai 1:2 which is refuted by the prophet; arguing, that, if the time to...
John Gill
Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts,.... The Lord God omniscient and omnipotent, that saw all their actions, and could punish for them; since they were so careful of their own houses, and adorning them, and so careless of his house; he would have them now sit down, and seriously think of these things, and of what he should further observe unto them: Consider your ways; their sinful ways,...
Matthew Henry
The Jews Reproved; God's Controversy with the Jews; The Prophet's Good Advice. (b. c. 520.) 1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying, 2 Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages, earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. Those people did not prosper: they were very prudent after a worldly sort, but somehow they did not get...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; consider your ways. “Just look back a little, and see what have already been the consequences of looking to yourselves, and not to your God; have you gained anything by so acting?