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The Book of Haggai - Summary
Haggai was a prophet (holy man). He lived at the same time as Zecharaiah. Then, some people from Israel had returned from Babylon. They rebuilt their own houses in Jerusalem. Haggai explained why they were poor. He said that God was not blessing them.
Haggai told them that they should also rebuild God's temple (the house of God) - Haggai 1.
The new temple was small. But God told Haggai that it would be greater than the old temple (Haggai 2). And now, God would bless the people because they had rebuilt the temple.
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About this book
The *Jews were people that God chose to be his special people. But the *Jews forgot God and they did not obey him. And so God sent them to live as slaves in a country called Babylon. After 60 years, they returned to their own country. Even then, they forgot God. But he sent Haggai to speak to them. This book is about the message that God gave to Haggai for them. And it is about what the people did after that.
Chapter 1
v1-2 Darius was a king. He was the king of a country called Persia. He had been king for 1 year and 5 months. On the first day of the next month, the *Lord *Almighty spoke to Haggai. (Haggai was a *prophet of the *Lord.) This is what the *Lord said. ‘Everyone says that this is not the right time to build a *temple for me.’ The *Lord told Haggai that he must speak to the ruler of Judah and to the *high *priest. The ruler was called Zerubbabel. (His father was called Shealtiel.) The *high priest was called Joshua. (His father was called Jehozadak.) v3 So Haggai, the *prophet, told Zerubbabel and Joshua what the *Lord had said.
v4 This was the *Lord’s message. ‘You seem to think that it is right for you to live in expensive houses. But you still have not built my *temple. v5 But think about what has happened to you. v6 You plant seeds but not many plants grow. You never have enough food to eat. You drink but you are still *thirsty. You put on clothes but your clothes do not keep you warm. And the money that you get for all your work is not enough. It is like when you put your money into pockets with holes in them. v7 Think about what has happened to you!
v8 And now, get wood from the hills to build my *temple again. I want to look at my *temple with pleasure. I want people to *worship me there. v9 You thought that many food plants would grow in your fields. But only a few plants grew and that disappointed you. And when you brought your food to your home, I destroyed it. You may ask why I have done this. I did it because your first thought was to build your own houses. But your first thought should have been to build my *temple again. And you have not done anything about that. v10 That is why your fields are dry. That is why your plants do not grow. v11 I have stopped the rains so that nothing will grow. Your plants will not grow. Your cows will not have enough grass to eat. Your *vines and your *olive trees will have only a little fruit. No young animals will be born. And you will not have any children. For all your work, you will get nothing.’
Verse 1 tells us when Haggai spoke his message. Darius ruled as king over Persia and over many other countries. Judah was one of those countries. It was where the *Jews lived. It was their own country, but they were very poor. The *Lord said that they had forgotten him. And that was why this was happening. They had chosen to build their own houses. They should have built his *temple. He said that they must now build his *temple.
v12 Some years before this, the people had returned to live in their own country. Zerubbabel and Joshua had returned with them. (Zerubbabel was Shealtiel’s son. Joshua was the *high priest and he was Jehozadak’s son.) Now everyone heard the message that Haggai brought to them from the *Lord. They were afraid because of what Haggai told them. And they all decided to obey the *Lord their God and to *worship him. v13 Haggai was the *Lord’s *prophet. This was Haggai’s message from the *Lord: ‘ “I am with you”, says the *Lord.’ v14 So the *Lord changed what Zerubbabel and Joshua and the people thought. Soon, all the people wanted to build the *temple for the *Lord. Zerubbabel and Joshua, too, wanted to build the *temple. (Zerubbabel was the ruler of Judah and he was Shealtiel’s son. Joshua was the *high priest and he was Jehozadak’s son.) They all came and they worked at the *temple of the *Lord *Almighty, their God. v15 And so the work began on the 24th day of that same month. Darius had been king for more than 1 year and 5 months.
The people heard what the *Lord had said to Haggai. And then they were afraid. But the *Lord put in their minds the thought that they should obey him. So they started to build his *temple again.
Chapter 2
v1 On the 21st day of the next month, the *Lord spoke to Haggai, the *prophet. v2 The *Lord told Haggai that he must speak to Zerubbabel and to Joshua. (Zerubbabel was Shealtiel’s son and he was the ruler of Judah. Joshua was the *high priest and he was Jehozadak’s son.) The *Lord also told Haggai that he must speak to all the people. This was the message that the *Lord sent:
v3 ‘Some of the people will remember that my *temple was once very beautiful. You think that it is really not beautiful now. v4 But now, be strong and brave, Zerubbabel! And be strong and brave, Joshua, *high priest, son of Jehozadak! And be strong and brave, all you people in this country, and work! Work because I am with you’, says the *Lord *Almighty. v5 ‘A long time ago, my people returned to their own country from Egypt. I promised them then that I would be with them. And I was with them. I will be with you, too. So, do not be afraid. And do not think that the work will be too difficult for you. My Spirit will stay here among you.
v6 Soon, people will see that I am a powerful God. Soon, I will cause the skies and the earth to move. I will cause the sea and the land to move. v7 I will cause people in many countries to be afraid. They will come to your country and they will bring with them valuable gifts. And I will make my *temple beautiful’, says the *Lord *Almighty. v8 ‘All the *silver and gold in the world is mine’, says the *Lord *Almighty. v9 ‘I promise that this new *temple will be more beautiful than the old *temple. People will see my *temple. And then they will know that I am a great God. I will also make this city a place where there is *peace’, says the *Lord *Almighty.
Egypt is a country in Africa where the *Jews were slaves. Now the *Jews were living in their own country. They worked for many hours each day. They had to do this to get enough food. They did not have much time to build the *temple. There were many things that they needed to build the *temple. They did not have enough money to buy these things. But the *Lord had always been with his people and he promised to help them. Then they would have the things that they needed to build his *temple.
v10 Darius had been king for 1 year and 8 months and 23 days. Then the *Lord *Almighty spoke to Haggai the *prophet again. v11 The *Lord *Almighty told Haggai that he must ask the *priests a question about God’s rules. v12 This was the question. ‘A person might be carrying some meat in his clothes. It is meat that he wants to give to God as a *sacrifice. His clothes might touch some food. It might be bread. Or it might be food that he has cooked. It might be *wine or oil. Or it might be some other food. Would the food that his clothes had touched become *holy?’ The *priests replied, ‘No.’
v13 Haggai asked the *priests another question. ‘If you touch a dead person, you become not *holy. You know that. If you then touch any of these foods, would they become not *holy?’ The *priests replied, ‘Yes, they would.’
v14 So Haggai answered, ‘That is how I thought about all the people in this country’, says the *Lord. ‘I was angry about all the things that you had done. I did not accept your *sacrifices. v15 You have now started to build the *Lord’s *temple again. Try to remember what life was like before that. v16 You wanted 20 pots of *grain. But you found that there were only 10 pots. You wanted 50 jars of *wine. But you found that there were only 20 jars. v17 I sent bad weather and I destroyed all your work. And the things that you picked from your fields were not good to eat. So you had to waste them. But you still did not return to me. And you did not say that I was your *Lord. v18 Today, the 24th day of the 9th month, you have started to build my *temple. Now this is what will happen to you: v19 You have not yet picked any seeds or *grapes. You have not yet picked any *figs or *pomegranates. You have not yet picked any *olives. But after today, I will be good to you. So then you will have as much as you need of all these things.’
Haggai explained why their lives had been so difficult. They had not done what was right. They had not done the things that the *Lord had asked them to do. They had done what they themselves had decided. That is why their lives had been so difficult. But now they want to obey God. And they have started to build his *temple. And so God promises that they will have enough food. He promises that they will have happy lives.
v20 On the same day, the 24th day of the month, the *Lord spoke to Haggai again. This is what he said. v21 ‘Speak to Zerubbabel, who is the ruler of Judah. Tell him that I will cause the skies and the earth to move. v22 Tell him that I will remove foreign kings. And I will destroy their countries. I will destroy their *chariots. And I will kill the soldiers who ride in them. The soldiers who ride on horses will start to kill each other. And they will kill each other’s horses. v23 But I am the *Lord *Almighty and you, Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel are my servant. I have chosen you. And so, on that day, I will cause you to be like my special ring. I will keep you safe. And you will rule this country for me’, says the *Lord *Almighty.
Haggai gave this special message from the *Lord to Zerubbabel. The *Lord still ruled over everything. But he had chosen Zerubbabel to be his servant. The *Lord wanted Zerubbabel to rule Judah on his behalf.
Word List
almighty ~ more powerful than anyone else; someone who has the power to beat all his enemies; the ruler of everything; all powerful.
chariot ~ a kind of car that soldiers use to fight. Horses pull it.
fig ~ a kind of sweet fruit that grows on a tree.
forgive ~ when someone stops being angry with another person who has done bad things.
grain ~ a hard seed that you can eat; or you can make it into bread.
grape ~ a fruit. People can use them to make a drink that has alcohol in it.
high priest ~ the most important *priest in the *temple.
holy ~ when something is right to use because God is happy about it; all good with nothing bad in it.
Jew ~ a person who is born from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and their children.
Lord ~ a special name for God that his people use. He will do what he has promised them. And he does not change. That is what this name means.
olive ~ a tree with small fruits (or the fruits themselves) that people used to make oil. They burned the oil to give them light. They used it in other ways too.
peace ~ when we and God are friends; or, when there is no war.
pomegranate ~ a bright red fruit like an apple.
priest ~ a man who gave gifts and burned animals as a *sacrifice to God on behalf of the *Jews; a man that God chose to be his servant in the *temple.
prophet ~ someone who tells other people what God wants; or someone who tells other people what God will do.
sacrifice ~ something that people gave to God. It could be food or drink or an animal. Some sacrifices were to give thanks to God. People also made sacrifices so that God would *forgive them.
silver ~ a white metal; it shines and it is very valuable.
temple ~ *Jews went to this special building in Jerusalem to meet and to talk to God.
thirsty ~ a thirsty person wants or needs a drink.
vine ~ a plant that climbs; the fruits are called *grapes.
wine ~ a drink that has alcohol in it; people make it from small, sweet fruit called grapes.
worship ~ to show God that he is great and that we love him very much; to give thanks to God.
Book List
Joyce B. Baldwin ~ Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries ~ IVP
Pieter A. Verhoff ~ The Books of Haggai and Malachi ~ The New International Commentary on the Old Testament ~ Eerdmans
The New Bible Commentary Revised ~ IVF
Bible ~ Contemporary English Version, Good News Bible, New International Version, New Living Translation, The Moffat Translation
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| Book 37 | Haggai |
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| 001:001 | In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying, |
| 001:002 | Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD's house should be built. |
| 001:003 | Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, |
| 001:004 | Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? |
| 001:005 | Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. |
| 001:006 | Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. |
| 001:007 | Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. |
| 001:008 | Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD. |
| 001:009 | Ye looked for much, and, lo it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. |
| 001:010 | Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit. |
| 001:011 | And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands. |
| 001:012 | Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, 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 did fear before the LORD. |
| 001:013 | Then spake Haggai the LORD's messenger in the LORD's message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD. |
| 001:014 | 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 high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God, |
| 001:015 | In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king. |
| 002:001 | In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai, saying, |
| 002:002 | Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying, |
| 002:003 | Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing? |
| 002:004 | Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work: for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts: |
| 002:005 | According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not. |
| 002:006 | For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; |
| 002:007 | And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts. |
| 002:008 | The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts. |
| 002:009 | The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts. |
| 002:010 | 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, |
| 002:011 | Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying, |
| 002:012 | If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No. |
| 002:013 | Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean. |
| 002:014 | 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. |
| 002:015 | 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: |
| 002:016 | Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty. |
| 002:017 | I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD. |
| 002:018 | 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. |
| 002:019 | Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you. |
| 002:020 | And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying, |
| 002:021 | Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth; |
| 002:022 | And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother. |
| 002:023 | In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts. |
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