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Haggai 1
New International Version

### A Call to Build the House of the Lord

1 In the second year of King Darius,(A) on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the Lord came through the prophet Haggai(B) to Zerubbabel(C) son of Shealtiel, governor(D) of Judah, and to Joshua(E) son of Jozadak,[a](F) the high priest:(G)

2 This is what the Lord Almighty(H) says: “These people(I) say, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the Lord’s house.(J)’”

3 Then the word of the Lord came through the prophet Haggai:(K) 4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses,(L) while this house remains a ruin?(M)”

5 Now this is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought(N) to your ways. 6 You have planted much, but harvested little.(O) You eat, but never have enough.(P) You drink, but never have your fill.(Q) You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages,(R) only to put them in a purse with holes in it.”

7 This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought(S) to your ways. 8 Go up into the mountains and bring down timber(T) and build my house, so that I may take pleasure(U) in it and be honored,(V)” says the Lord. 9 “You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little.(W) What you brought home, I blew(X) away. Why?” declares the Lord Almighty. “Because of my house, which remains a ruin,(Y) while each of you is busy with your own house. 10 Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld(Z) their dew(AA) and the earth its crops.(AB) 11 I called for a drought(AC) on the fields and the mountains,(AD) on the grain, the new wine,(AE) the olive oil(AF) and everything else the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.(AG)”

12 Then Zerubbabel(AH) son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest, and the whole remnant(AI) of the people obeyed(AJ) the voice of the Lord their God and the message of the prophet Haggai, because the Lord their God had sent him. And the people feared(AK) the Lord.

13 Then Haggai,(AL) the Lord’s messenger,(AM) gave this message of the Lord to the people: “I am with(AN) you,” declares the Lord. 14 So the Lord stirred up(AO) the spirit of Zerubbabel(AP) son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jozadak,(AQ) the high priest, and the spirit of the whole remnant(AR) of the people. They came and began to work on the house of the Lord Almighty, their God, 15 on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month.(AS)

### The Promised Glory of the New House

In the second year of King Darius,(AT)

#### Footnotes

1. Haggai 1:1 Hebrew Jehozadak, a variant of Jozadak; also in verses 12 and 14

#### Cross references

1. Haggai 1:1 : S Ezr 4:24
2. Haggai 1:1 : S Ezr 5:1
3. Haggai 1:1 : S 1Ch 3:19; Mt 1:12-13
4. Haggai 1:1 : Ezr 5:3; S Ne 5:14
5. Haggai 1:1 : S Ezr 2:2
6. Haggai 1:1 : S 1Ch 6:15; S Ezr 3:2
7. Haggai 1:1 : Zec 3:8
8. Haggai 1:2 : Isa 13:4
9. Haggai 1:2 : S Isa 29:13
10. Haggai 1:2 : Ezr 1:2
11. Haggai 1:3 : S Ezr 5:1
12. Haggai 1:4 : S 2Sa 7:2
13. Haggai 1:4 : ver 9; Jer 33:12
14. Haggai 1:5 : ver 7; La 3:40; Hag 2:15, 18
15. Haggai 1:6 : S Lev 26:20; S Isa 5:10
16. Haggai 1:6 : S Isa 9:20; S 55:2
17. Haggai 1:6 : Am 4:8
18. Haggai 1:6 : Hag 2:16; Zec 8:10
19. Haggai 1:7 : S ver 5
20. Haggai 1:8 : S 1Ch 14:1
21. Haggai 1:8 : S Job 22:3; Ps 132:13-14
22. Haggai 1:8 : S Ex 29:43; Jer 13:11
23. Haggai 1:9 : S Dt 28:38; S Isa 5:10
24. Haggai 1:9 : S Ps 103:16; S Eze 22:21
25. Haggai 1:9 : S ver 4; S Ne 13:11
26. Haggai 1:10 : S Dt 28:24
27. Haggai 1:10 : S Ge 27:28; 1Ki 17:1
28. Haggai 1:10 : Lev 26:19; Dt 28:23
29. Haggai 1:11 : S Dt 11:26; S 28:22; S Ru 1:1; S 1Ki 17:1; S Isa 5:6
30. Haggai 1:11 : Isa 7:25
31. Haggai 1:11 : S Dt 28:51; Ps 4:7
32. Haggai 1:11 : S Nu 18:12
33. Haggai 1:11 : Hag 2:17
34. Haggai 1:12 : ver 1
35. Haggai 1:12 : ver 14; Isa 1:9; Hag 2:2
36. Haggai 1:12 : S Job 36:11; S Isa 50:10; Mt 28:20
37. Haggai 1:12 : S Dt 31:12; S Isa 1:2
38. Haggai 1:13 : ver 1
39. Haggai 1:13 : S Nu 27:21; S 2Ch 36:15
40. Haggai 1:13 : S Ge 26:3; S Nu 14:9; S Mt 28:20; Ro 8:31
41. Haggai 1:14 : S Ezr 1:5
42. Haggai 1:14 : S Ezr 5:2
43. Haggai 1:14 : S 1Ch 6:15
44. Haggai 1:14 : S ver 12
45. Haggai 1:15 : ver 1; Hag 2:10, 20
46. Haggai 1:15 : S Ezr 4:24

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