Verse 2

Thus speaketh the Lorde of hoastes, saying: This people sayth, The time is not yet come for the Lordes house to be buylded.

Referenced Verses

  • Neh 4:10 : 10 And Iuda sayde: The strength of the bearers is feeble, and there is yet much more morter, and we are not able to buylde on the wall.
  • Num 13:31 : 31 But the men that went vp with him, sayde: We be not able to go vp agaynst the people, for they are stronger then we.
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatsoeuer thou takest in hande to do, that do with al thy power: for in the graue that thou goest vnto, there is neither worke, counsayle, knowledge, nor wysdome.
  • Song 5:2-3 : 2 I am a sleepe, but my heart is waking: I heare the voyce of my beloued when he knocketh, saying, Open to me O my sister, my loue, my doue, my dearling: for my head is full of deawe, and the lockes of my heere are full of the nyght doppes. 3 I haue put of my coate, howe can I do it on agayne? I haue washed my feete, howe shall I fyle them agayne?
  • Eccl 11:4 : 4 He that regardeth the winde, shall not sowe: and he that hath respect vnto the cloudes, shall not reape.
  • Ezra 4:23-5:2 : 23 Nowe when the copie of king Artaxerxes letter was read before Rehum & Simsai the scribe, and their companyons, they went vp in all the haste to Hierusalem vnto the Iewes, and forbad them with violence and power. 24 Then ceassed the worke of the house of God at Hierusalem, and continued so vnto the second yere of Darius king of Persia. 1 The prophetes Aggens, and Zachari the sonne of Iddo, prophecied vnto the Iewes that were in Iuda and Hierusalem in the name of the God of Israel, eue vnto them. 2 Then gat vp Zorobabel the sonne of Salathiel, and Iesua the sonne of Iosedec, and began to builde the house of God at Hierusalem: and with them were the prophetes of God, which helped them.
  • Prov 22:13 : 13 The slouthfull body saith there is a Lion without: I might be slaine in the streate.
  • Prov 26:13-16 : 13 The slouthfull saith, there is a lion in the way, and a lion in the middest of the streates. 14 Like as the doore turneth about vpon the hynges: euen so doth the slouthfull walter him selfe in his bed. 15 The slouthfull body thrusteth his hande into his bosome, and it greeueth hym to put it agayne to his mouth. 16 The sluggarde thinketh him selfe wiser then seuen men that sit and teache.
  • Prov 29:25 : 25 He that feareth men shall haue a fall: but who so putteth his trust in the Lorde, is without daunger.