Haggai 1

1In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came by Haggai the prophet, to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,Cross-references: Ex 4:13 · 1Ki 14:18 · 2Ki 14:25 · 1Chr 3:17 · 1Chr 3:19 · 1Chr 6:14 · +22 more

2“This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for Yahweh’s house to be built.’”Cross-references: Num 13:31 · Ezra 4:23 · Neh 4:10 · Prov 22:13 · Prov 26:13 · Prov 29:25 · +3 more

3Then Yahweh’s word came by Haggai the prophet, saying,Cross-references: Ezra 5:1 · Zech 1:1

4“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?Cross-references: 2Sam 7:2 · Ps 74:7 · Ps 102:14 · Ps 132:3 · Jer 26:6 · Jer 26:18 · +13 more

5Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Consider your ways.Cross-references: Ex 7:23 · Ex 9:21 · Ps 48:13 · Lam 3:40 · Ezek 18:28 · Ezek 40:4 · +7 more

6You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.’Cross-references: Lev 26:20 · Lev 26:26 · Deut 28:38 · 2Sam 21:1 · 1Ki 17:12 · Job 20:22 · +17 more

7“This is what Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Consider your ways.Cross-references: Ps 119:59 · Isa 28:10 · Hag 1:5 · Phil 3:1

8Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Ex 29:43 · 1Ki 9:3 · 2Chr 2:8 · 2Chr 7:16 · Ezra 3:7 · Ezra 6:4 · +12 more

9“You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.Cross-references: Josh 7:10 · 2Sam 21:1 · 2Sam 22:16 · 2Ki 19:7 · Job 10:2 · Ps 77:5 · +11 more

10Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.Cross-references: Lev 26:19 · Deut 28:23 · 1Ki 8:35 · 1Ki 17:1 · Jer 14:1 · Hos 2:9 · +1 more

11I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground produces, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands.”Cross-references: Deut 28:22 · 1Ki 17:1 · 2Ki 8:1 · Job 34:29 · Lam 1:21 · Amos 5:8 · +3 more

12Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed Yahweh their God’s voice, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as Yahweh their God had sent him; and the people feared Yahweh.Cross-references: Gen 22:12 · Deut 31:12 · Ezra 5:2 · Ps 112:1 · Prov 1:7 · Eccl 12:13 · +10 more

13Then Haggai, Yahweh’s messenger, spoke Yahweh’s message to the people, saying, “I am with you,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Judg 2:1 · 2Chr 15:2 · 2Chr 20:17 · 2Chr 32:8 · Ps 46:7 · Ps 46:11 · +20 more

14Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of Yahweh of Armies, their God,Cross-references: 1Chr 5:26 · 2Chr 36:22 · Ezra 1:1 · Ezra 1:5 · Ezra 5:2 · Ezra 5:8 · +12 more

15in the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.Cross-references: Hag 1:1 · Hag 2:1 · Hag 2:10 · Hag 2:20