Haggai 2:11
Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,
Haggai 2:11 in other translations
| BSB | “This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Ask the priests for a ruling. |
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| WEB | “The LORD of Armies says: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying, |
| ASV | Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying, |
| YLT | Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: ‘Ask, I pray thee, the priests of the law, saying: |
| DARBY | Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying, |
| BBE | These are the words of the Lord of armies: Put now a point of law to the priests, saying, |
| Webster | Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying, |
What does Haggai 2:11 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Haggai 2:10-19
Many spoiled this good work, by going about it with unholy hearts and hands, and were likely to gain no advantage by it. The sum of these two rules of the law is, that sin is more easily learned from others than holiness. The impurity of their hearts and lives shall make the work of their hands, and all their offerings, unclean before God. The case is the same with us. When employed in any good work, we should watch…
Haggai 2:11 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Haggai 2:11
- Leviticus 10:10-11
And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean; And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.
- Malachi 2:7
For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.
- Deuteronomy 33:10
They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.
- Titus 1:9
Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
- Deuteronomy 17:8-11
If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the Lord thy God shall choose; And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment: And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the Lord shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee: According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.
- Ezekiel 44:23-24
And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.
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Context
- 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,
- Haggai 2:11
Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,
- Haggai 2:12
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.
Haggai 2:11 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Así ha dicho Jehová de los ejércitos: Pregunta ahora á los sacerdotes acerca de la ley, diciendo: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ainsi dit l’ Éternel des armées: Interroge les sacrificateurs sur la loi, disant: |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | So spricht Jehova der Heerscharen: Frage doch die Priester über das Gesetz und sprich: |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | In vigesima et quarta noni mensis, in anno secundo Darii regis, factum est verbum Domini ad Aggæum prophetam, dicens: |