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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Haggai 2 This chapter contains three sermons or prophecies, delivered by the prophet to the people of the Jews. The design of the first is to encourage them to go on with the building of the temple, though it might seem to come greatly short of the former temple, as to its outward form and splendour. The time of the prophecy, Haggai 2:1 an order to deliver it to the governor, high...
John Gill
In the seventh [month],.... The month Tisri, which answers to part of September and part of October: in the one and twentieth [day] of the month; being a month, wanting three days, from the time the Jews came and worked in the house of the Lord, Haggai 1:14 it was toward the close of the feast of tabernacles: see Leviticus 23:34: came the word of the Lord by the Prophet Haggai; the word of...
Matthew Henry
In this chapter we have three sermons preached by the prophet Haggai for the encouragement of those that are forward to build the temple. In the first he assures the builders that the glory of the house they were now building should, in spiritual respects, though not in outward, exceed that of Solomon's temple, in which he has an eye to the coming of Christ, ver. 1-9. In the second he assures...
Charles H. Spurgeon
In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month. Not very long after.
Charles H. Spurgeon
In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai, saying, God’s people need to be spoken to very often; and every time God speaks to them, he takes account of it. Let us do the same: let us not think it is such an unimportant matter for us to hear a gospel sermon that we need not take note when we hear it. Oh, that the Word of the...