1In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, the Word of the Lord 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,

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Ezra 2:2, Ezra 2:2, Ezra 3:8, Ezra 3:2, Ezra 3:8

2"This is what the Lord of hosts says: These people say, 'The time hasn't yet come, the time for the Lord's house to be built.'"

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Ezra 4:23, Ezra 5:2, Ezra 4:23, Ezra 5:2, Nehemiah 4:10

3Then the Word of the Lord came by Haggai, the prophet, saying,

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Ezra 5:1, Ezra 5:1, Zechariah 1:1, Zechariah 1:1

4"Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?

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2 Samuel 7:2, 2 Samuel 7:2, Psalms 132:3, Psalms 132:5, Psalms 132:3

5Now therefore this is what the Lord of hosts says: Consider your ways.

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Lamentations 3:40, Lamentations 3:40, 2 Corinthians 13:5, 2 Corinthians 13:5, Haggai 1:7

6You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you do not 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."

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Haggai 1:9, Haggai 1:9, Deuteronomy 28:38, Deuteronomy 28:40, Deuteronomy 28:38

7This is what the Lord of hosts says: "Consider your ways.

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Psalms 119:59, Psalms 119:60, Psalms 119:59, Psalms 119:60, Haggai 1:5

8Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified," says the Lord.

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Psalms 132:13, Psalms 132:14, Psalms 132:13, Psalms 132:14, 2 Chronicles 2:8

9"You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?" says the Lord of hosts, "Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.

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Haggai 1:4, Haggai 1:4, Haggai 2:16, Haggai 2:17, Haggai 2:16

10Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.

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1 Kings 8:35, 1 Kings 8:35, Leviticus 26:19, Leviticus 26:19, 1 Kings 17:1

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 brings forth, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands."

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Haggai 2:17, Haggai 2:17, Deuteronomy 28:22, Deuteronomy 28:22, 1 Kings 17:1

12Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, 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 feared the Lord.

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Isaiah 50:10, Isaiah 50:10, Ezra 5:2, Haggai 1:14, Ezra 5:2

13Then Haggai, the Lord's messenger, spoke the Lord's message to the people, saying, "I am with you," says the Lord.

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Isaiah 43:2, Isaiah 43:2, Matthew 28:20, Matthew 28:20, Acts 18:9

14The Lord 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 the Lord of hosts, their God,

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2 Chronicles 36:22, 2 Chronicles 36:22, 1 Chronicles 5:26, Ezra 1:1, Haggai 1:1

15in the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

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Haggai 1:1, Haggai 1:1, Haggai 2:20, Haggai 2:10, Haggai 2:1