Psalia.The prophets / About this book
The people attend to their own houses while the temple remains unfinished. Haggai calls them to reconsider their priorities and begin again. Discouragement about the modest rebuilding is met with an assurance of God’s presence and a call to persevere.
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Ask who is speaking, who is being addressed, and what concern the passage names. Prophetic writing can move between warning, accusation, promise, and hope. Notice these changes rather than giving every paragraph the same tone.
Give images room to work within their setting. Read the surrounding section before applying a line to a present-day event, and keep a note of references or questions that need more study. An honest question is more useful than a hurried certainty.
Use the outline to see the larger movement before settling into a chapter. Each section opens at its first chapter in the reader.
1In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, the LORD’s word 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,
2“This is what the LORD of Armies says: These people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for the LORD’s house to be built.’”
3Then the LORD’s word came by Haggai the prophet, saying,
4“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?
5Now therefore this is what the LORD of Armies says: ‘Consider your ways.
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