Haggai 1:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

Thus says the LORD of hosts: This people say, 'The time has not come, the time for the LORD'S house to be built.'

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  • Neh 4:10 : 10 And Judah said, The strength of the laborers is failing, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.
  • Num 13:31 : 31 But the men who went up with him said, We cannot go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave where you go.
  • Song 5:2-3 : 2 I sleep, but my heart wakes: it is the voice of my beloved that knocks, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night. 3 I have taken off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
  • Eccl 11:4 : 4 He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap.
  • Ezra 4:23-5:2 : 23 Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power. 24 Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia. 1 Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, even to them. 2 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, arose and began to build the house of God which is in Jerusalem: and with them were the prophets of God helping them.
  • Prov 22:13 : 13 The slothful man says, 'There is a lion outside; I shall be slain in the streets.'
  • Prov 26:13-16 : 13 The lazy man says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets. 14 As the door turns on its hinges, so does the lazy one turn upon his bed. 15 The lazy man hides his hand in his bosom; it grieves him to bring it back to his mouth. 16 The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can give an answer.
  • Prov 29:25 : 25 The fear of man brings a snare; but whoever puts his trust in the LORD shall be safe.

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  • Hag 1:3-5
    3 verses
    89%

    3Then the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet, saying,

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

    5Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

  • Hag 1:1
    87%

    1In the second year of King Darius, in the sixth month, on 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,

  • Hag 2:1-4
    4 verses
    83%

    1In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the prophet Haggai, saying,

    2Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying,

    3Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? And how do you see it now? Is it not in your eyes as nothing compared to it?

    4Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, says the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest; and be strong, all you people of the land, says the LORD, and work: for I am with you, says the LORD of hosts.

  • Hag 2:9-11
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    9The glory of this latter house shall be greater than the former, says the LORD of hosts: and in this place I will give peace, says the LORD of hosts.

    10On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet, saying,

    11Thus says the LORD of hosts: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,

  • Hag 2:14-15
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    78%

    14Then Haggai answered and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before Me, says the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and what they offer there is unclean.

    15And now, I pray you, consider from this day onward, before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:

  • Hag 1:12-15
    4 verses
    77%

    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 presence of the LORD.

    13Then Haggai, the LORD'S messenger, spoke the LORD'S message to the people, saying, 'I am with you,' says the LORD.

    14So the 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,

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

  • Zech 8:9
    77%

    9Thus says the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.

  • Ezra 5:15-16
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    15And he said to him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be built in its place.

    16Then the same Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundation of the house of God which is in Jerusalem: and from that time even until now it has been in building, and yet it is not completed.

  • Zech 4:8-9
    2 verses
    77%

    8Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

    9The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.

  • Hag 1:7-9
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    77%

    7Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

    8Go up to the mountains, bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be glorified, says the LORD.

    9You looked for much, but indeed 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 is in ruins, while each of you runs to his own house.

  • Hag 2:20-21
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    20And again the word of the LORD came to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying,

    21Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;

  • Ezra 5:1-3
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    76%

    1Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, even to them.

    2Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, arose and began to build the house of God which is in Jerusalem: and with them were the prophets of God helping them.

    3At the same time, Tatnai, governor on this side of the river, and Shetharboznai, and their companions, came to them and said, Who has commanded you to build this house and to finish this wall?

  • Ezra 1:2-3
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    75%

    2Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The LORD God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

    3Who is there among you of all his people? May his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel (he is the God), which is in Jerusalem.

  • Ezra 3:8
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    8Now in the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, began; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to oversee the work of the house of the LORD.

  • Zech 1:1
    75%

    1In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

  • Ezra 5:13
    74%

    13But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon, the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.

  • Ezra 4:3
    74%

    3But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said to them, You have nothing to do with us to build a house to our God; but we ourselves together will build to the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.

  • Ezra 4:1
    73%

    1Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building the temple to the LORD God of Israel,

  • Zech 4:6
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    6Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD of hosts.

  • Ezra 6:7
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    7Let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in its place.

  • Ezra 5:11
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    11And they returned an answer to us, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the house that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and set up.

  • Ezra 3:6
    72%

    6From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid.

  • Ezra 5:9
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    9Then we asked those elders and said to them, Who commanded you to build this house and to finish these walls?

  • Zech 7:4
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    4Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,

  • Zech 6:15
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    15And those who are far off shall come and build in the temple of the LORD, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you. And this shall come to pass, if you will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.

  • Hag 2:18
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    18Consider now, from this day forward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day that the foundation of the LORD'S temple was laid, consider it.

  • Zech 8:1
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    1Again the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,

  • Zech 1:7
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    7On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month of Sebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

  • Zech 6:12
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    12And speak to him, saying, Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:

  • 1 Kgs 6:37
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    37In the fourth year, the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid in the month of Zif:

  • Hag 2:7
    71%

    7And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of hosts.