Haggai 2:14

Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
answered	וַיַּ֨עַן vai.Ya.'an	H6030	properly · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
Haggai	חַגַּ֜י cha.Gai	H2292	Chaggai · proper noun, a man's name
said	וַיֹּ֗אמֶר vai.Yo.mer	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
people	הָֽעָם ha.'om-	H5971	a people (as a congregated unit) · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
nation	הַגּ֨וֹי ha.Goy	H1471	a foreign nation · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
before	לְפָנַי֙ le.fa.Nai	H6440	the face (as the part that turns) · preposition + noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix
saith	נְאֻם ne.'um-	H5002	an oracle · noun, common masculine singular construct
LORD	יְהוָ֔ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
work	מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה ma.'a.Seh	H4639	an action (good or bad) · noun, common masculine singular construct
hands	יְדֵיהֶ֑ם ye.dei.Hem	H3027	a hand (the open one (indicating power · noun, common both genders dual construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
offer	יַקְרִ֛יבוּ yak.Ri.vu	H7126	to approach (causatively · verb, hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
unclean	טָמֵ֥א ta.Me'	H2931	foul in a religious sense · adjective, masculine singular absolute

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Cross-references

Proverbs 28:9 He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.
Titus 1:15 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is def…
Proverbs 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Isaiah 1:11-15 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed be…
Haggai 1:4-11 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
Ezra 3:2-3 Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded th…
Proverbs 21:4 An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.
Proverbs 21:27 The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Haggai 2:10-19

This sermon was preached two months after that in the former part of the chapter. The priests and Levites preached constantly, but the prophets preached occasionally; both were good and needful. We have need to be taught our duty in season and out of season. The people were now going on vigorously with the building of the temple, and in hopes shortly to have it ready for their use and to be employed in the services of it; and now God sends them a message by his prophet, which would be of use to them. I. By way of conviction and caution. They were now engaged in a very good work, but they were concerned to see to it, not only that it was good for the matter of it, but that it was done in a ri…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Haggai 2:14

Then answered Haggai--rather, "Then Haggai answered (in rejoinder to the priests' answer) and said" [MAURER]. so is this people--heretofore not in such an obedient state of mind as to deserve to be called My people (Tit 1:15). Here he applies the two cases just stated. By the first case, "this people" is not made "holy" by their offerings "there" (namely, on the altar built in the open air, under Cyrus, Ezr 3:3); though the ritual sacrifice can ordinarily sanctify outwardly so far as it reaches (Heb 9:13), as the "holy flesh" sanctified the "skirt," yet it cannot make the offerers in their persons and all their works acceptable to God, because lacking the spirit of obedience (Sa1 15:22) so…

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Adam Clarke on Haggai 2:14

Then answered Haggai - So is this people - As an unclean man communicates his uncleanness to every thing he touches, so are ye unclean; and whatever ye have hitherto done is polluted in the sight of God. For your neglect of my temple has made you unclean, as if you had contracted legal pollution by touching a dead body.

John Gill on Haggai 2:14

Then answered Haggai, and said,.... To the priests, and before the people; and made an application of these things to them, which was the thing in view in putting the questions: So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the Lord; not only those people that were present and at work at the temple, but those that were absent, even the whole body of the people; who, though they were pure in their own eyes, yet were not so before the Lord; who knew their hearts, and the spring of all their actions; what were their ends and views in all they did: as a garment carrying in it holy flesh could not sanctify other things touched by it that were common and profane, but left them as they…

Dictionary and topics

Sins, National · Defile: National worship — Defile: National worship

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Haggai 2:14

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Haggai 2:10-19

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Haggai 2:14

Adam Clarke on Haggai 2:14

John Gill on Haggai 2:14

Dictionary and topics

Haggai 2:14

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Haggai 2:10-19

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Haggai 2:14

Adam Clarke on Haggai 2:14

John Gill on Haggai 2:14

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Haggai 2:10-14

Keil & Delitzsch on Haggai 2:11-14

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Haggai 2:14

Rashi on Haggai 2:14