Haggai 2:18

Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid, consider it.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Consider	שִׂימוּ si.mu-	H7760	to put (used in a great variety of applications · verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine plural
day	הַיּ֥וֹם hai.Yom	H3117	a day (as the warm hours) · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
upward	וָמָ֑עְלָה va.Ma.'e.lah	H4605	properly · conjunction + cardinal number, both genders singular absolute + directional suffix
four	וְאַרְבָּעָ֜ה ve.'ar.ba.'Ah	H702	four · conjunction + cardinal number, both genders singular absolute
twentieth	עֶשְׂרִ֨ים 'es.Rim	H6242	twenty · cardinal number, masculine plural absolute
day	מִיּוֹם֩ mi.yOm	H3117	a day (as the warm hours) · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
ninth	לַתְּשִׁיעִ֗י la.te.shi.'I	H8671	ninth · preposition with the article + ordinal number, masculine singular absolute
day	הַיּ֛וֹם hai.Yom	H3117	a day (as the warm hours) · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
foundation	יֻסַּ֥ד yu.Sad	H3245	to set (literally or figuratively) · verb, pual perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
LORD’s	יְהוָ֖ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
temple	הֵֽיכַל hei.khal-	H1964	a large public building · noun, common masculine singular construct
consider	שִׂ֥ימוּ Si.mu	H7760	to put (used in a great variety of applications · verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine plural

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Cross-references

Zechariah 8:9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in t…
Ezra 5:1-2 Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name…
Haggai 2:15 And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:
Zechariah 8:12 For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their de…
Deuteronomy 32:29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Haggai 1:14-15 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…
Haggai 2:10 In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
Luke 15:17-20 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

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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 2:18

Resumed from Hag 2:15 after Hag 2:16-17, that the blessing in Hag 2:19 may stand in the more marked contrast with the curse in Hag 2:16-17. Affliction will harden the heart, if not referred to God as its author [MOORE]. even from the day that the foundation of . . . temple was laid--The first foundation beneath the earth had been long ago laid in the second year of Cyrus, 535 B.C. (Ezr 3:10-11); the foundation now laid was the secondary one, which, above the earth, was laid on the previous work [TIRINUS]. Or, translate, "From this day on which the temple is being begun," namely, on the foundations long ago laid [GROTIUS]. MAURER translates, "Consider . . . from the four and twentieth day .…

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Adam Clarke on Haggai 2:18

Consider now from this day - I will now change my conduct towards you: from, this day that ye have begun heartily to rebuild my temple, and restore my worship, I will bless you. Whatever you sow, whatever you plant, shall be blessed; your land shall be fruitful, and ye shall have abundant crops of all sorts.

John Gill on Haggai 2:18

Consider now from this day and upward,.... Or forward; for time to come, as the Vulgate Latin version: from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month; before observed, Haggai 2:10, even from the day that the foundation of the Lord's temple was laid, consider it; not from the time it was first laid after their return upon the proclamation of Cyrus, but from the time they began to clear that foundation, and to build upon it; and which having lain so long neglected, the renewal of it is represented as a fresh laying of it: now the prophet, as he had directed them to consider what adversity and calamities had attended them from the time of their neglect unto this time; so he would have the…

The Church Fathers

I was inflicting various forms of correction on you—sterility, wind, blight, hail—but in your insensitivity you were unaware of the correction. Be mindful of this, then, and take note of the great prosperity you will enjoy after the commencement of the rebuilding, such being the abundance of necessities I shall provide you, with the result that in the future even the actual measures will have no use on the threshing floor. I shall also supply you with soft fruits as a blessing and provide the crop of the fruit trees.
— Theodoret of Cyrus, COMMENTARY ON HAGGAI 2:10-22

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Dictionary and topics

Liberality · 1:2-4; — 1:2-4;

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 2:18

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Haggai 2:10-19

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Haggai 2:18

Adam Clarke on Haggai 2:18

John Gill on Haggai 2:18

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Haggai 2:18

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Haggai 2:10-19

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Haggai 2:18

Adam Clarke on Haggai 2:18

John Gill on Haggai 2:18

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Haggai 2:15-19

Keil & Delitzsch on Haggai 2:18-19

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Haggai 2:18

Rashi on Haggai 2:18