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Haggai Chapter 1

Haggai
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Haggai

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Haggai urges the people of Judah to rebuild the temple and says that God will supply the necessary timber and stone. He rebukes them for being idle and for not working to honor God. The chapter emphasizes the need for diligent effort and divine provision.

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(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,
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Haggai 2:1Haggai 2:10Haggai 2:20Ezra 4:24Ezra 5:1Ezra 5:2Zechariah 1:1Exodus 4:13I Kings 14:18II Kings 14:25Ezra 6:14Haggai 1:12

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Esther 3:7Zechariah 1:7Ezra 3:8Haggai 2:10Ezekiel 8:1Genesis 8:5

(2) Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD'S house should be built.
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Numbers 13:31Ezra 4:23Ezra 4:24Ezra 5:1Ezra 5:2Nehemiah 4:10Proverbs 22:13Proverbs 26:13Proverbs 26:14Proverbs 26:15Proverbs 26:16Proverbs 29:25

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Zechariah 8:9I Corinthians 14:2Zechariah 1:3

(3) Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
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Ezra 5:1Zechariah 1:1

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Jeremiah 28:9Jeremiah 28:12

(4) Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
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II Samuel 7:2Psalms 132:3Psalms 132:4Psalms 132:5Matthew 6:33Philippians 2:21Psalms 74:7Psalms 102:14Jeremiah 26:6Jeremiah 26:18Jeremiah 52:13Lamentations 2:7

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Exodus 10:6Jeremiah 19:13

(5) Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
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Haggai 1:7Haggai 2:15Haggai 2:16Haggai 2:17Haggai 2:18Lamentations 3:40Ezekiel 18:28Luke 15:17II Corinthians 13:5Galatians 6:4Exodus 7:23Exodus 9:21

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Haggai 1:7Zechariah 1:3

(6) 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.
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Haggai 1:9Haggai 2:16Leviticus 26:20Deuteronomy 28:38Deuteronomy 28:39Deuteronomy 28:40II Samuel 21:1Psalms 107:34Isaiah 5:10Jeremiah 14:4Hosea 4:10Hosea 8:7

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Nahum 2:12Proverbs 6:10Proverbs 24:33Matthew 6:30Luke 12:28

(7) Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
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Haggai 1:5Psalms 119:59Psalms 119:60Isaiah 28:10Philippians 3:1

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Haggai 1:5Zechariah 1:3

(8) Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.
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II Chronicles 2:8II Chronicles 2:9II Chronicles 2:10Ezra 3:7Ezra 6:4Zechariah 11:1Zechariah 11:2Haggai 1:2Haggai 1:3Haggai 1:4Jonah 3:1Jonah 3:2

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I Kings 18:33

(9) Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
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Haggai 1:6Haggai 2:16Haggai 2:17Isaiah 17:10Isaiah 17:11Malachi 3:8Malachi 3:9Malachi 3:10Malachi 3:11II Samuel 22:16II Kings 19:7Isaiah 40:7

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Judges 5:28I Samuel 1:8II Chronicles 25:19Proverbs 6:10Proverbs 24:33I Corinthians 9:24

(10) Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
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Leviticus 26:19Deuteronomy 28:23Deuteronomy 28:24I Kings 8:35I Kings 17:1Jeremiah 14:1Jeremiah 14:2Jeremiah 14:3Jeremiah 14:4Jeremiah 14:5Jeremiah 14:6Hosea 2:9

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Deuteronomy 28:4Deuteronomy 28:11Deuteronomy 30:9Ezekiel 47:12Matthew 12:33John 15:2

(11) And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
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Deuteronomy 28:22I Kings 17:1II Kings 8:1Job 34:29Lamentations 1:21Amos 5:8Amos 7:4Amos 9:6Haggai 2:17

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Deuteronomy 28:51Mark 2:22Genesis 47:17Nehemiah 10:37Isaiah 26:5John 12:24

(12) Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD.
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Haggai 1:14Ezra 5:2Isaiah 55:10Isaiah 55:11Colossians 1:6I Thessalonians 1:5I Thessalonians 1:6I Thessalonians 2:13I Thessalonians 2:14Genesis 22:12Psalms 112:1Proverbs 1:7

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Haggai 1:1Haggai 1:14Haggai 2:2Jeremiah 28:9Jeremiah 28:12Haggai 2:4

(13) Then spake Haggai the LORD'S messenger in the LORD'S message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD.
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Judges 2:1Isaiah 42:19Isaiah 44:26Ezekiel 3:17Malachi 2:7Malachi 3:1II Corinthians 5:20Haggai 2:4II Chronicles 15:2II Chronicles 20:17II Chronicles 32:8Psalms 46:7

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Leviticus 27:26Jeremiah 26:2Isaiah 42:19

(14) And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,
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I Chronicles 5:26II Chronicles 36:22Ezra 1:1Ezra 1:5Ezra 7:27Ezra 7:28Psalms 110:3I Corinthians 12:4I Corinthians 12:5I Corinthians 12:6I Corinthians 12:7I Corinthians 12:8

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Haggai 1:1Haggai 2:2Haggai 1:12Haggai 2:4Haggai 2:23Zechariah 1:3

(15) In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
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Haggai 1:1Haggai 2:1Haggai 2:10Haggai 2:20

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Zechariah 1:7Esther 3:7Haggai 1:1Haggai 2:10Genesis 8:14Numbers 10:11

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