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:
Haggai 2:15 in other translations
| BSB | Now consider carefully from this day forward: Before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the LORD, |
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| WEB | Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in the LORD’s temple. |
| ASV | And now, I pray you, consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of Jehovah. |
| YLT | And now, lay it, I pray you, to your heart, From this day, and onwards, Before the laying of stone to stone in the temple of Jehovah. |
| DARBY | And now, I pray you, consider from this day and onward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of Jehovah, |
| BBE | And now, give thought, looking back from this day to the time before one stone was put on another in the Temple of the Lord: |
| Webster | 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: |
What does Haggai 2:15 mean?
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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 2:15 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Haggai 2:15
- Haggai 1:5
Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.
- Ezra 3:10
And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the Lord, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.
- 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.
- Haggai 1:7
Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.
- Ezra 4:24
Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
- Malachi 3:8-11
Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts.
- Romans 6:21
What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
- Isaiah 5:12
And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.
- Hosea 14:9
Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
- 1 Corinthians 11:31
For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
- Psalms 107:43
Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the Lord.
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Context
- Haggai 2:14
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.
- 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:
- Haggai 2:16
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.
Haggai 2:15 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Ahora pues, poned vuestro corazón desde este día en adelante, antes que pusiesen piedra sobre piedra en el templo de Jehová, |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et maintenant, considérez bien, je vous prie, ce qui va arriver dès ce jour et dorénavant: avant qu’on ait mis pierre sur pierre au temple de l’ Éternel, – |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und nun richtet doch euer Herz auf die Zeit von diesem Tage an und aufwärts, ehe Stein auf Stein gelegt wurde am Tempel Jehovas! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et respondit Aggæus, et dixit: Sic populus iste, et sic gens ista ante faciem meam, dicit Dominus, et sic omne opus manuum eorum: et omnia quæ obtulerunt ibi, contaminata erunt. |