Haggai 1:2 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

² 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Thus says the Lord of hosts: These people say, The time is not yet come that the Lord's house should be rebuilt [although Cyrus had ordered it done eighteen years before]. [Ezra 1:1-6; 4:1-6, 24; 5:1-3.]

American Standard Version (1901)

² Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, This people say, It is not the time for us to come, the time for Jehovah’s house to be built.

Common English Bible

² This is what the LORD of heavenly forces says: These people say, “The time hasn’t come, the time to rebuild the LORD’s house.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Thus says the Lord of hosts, saying: This people claims that the time has not yet arrived for building the house of the Lord.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: This people saith: The time is not yet come for building the house of the Lord.

Haggai 1:2 Cross References

2 Kings 12:7

Then king Jeho´ash called for Jehoi´ada the priest, and the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.

Ezra 4:23

Now when the copy of king Artaxerx´es' letter was read before Rehum, and Shim´shai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.

Nehemiah 4:10

And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.

Proverbs 22:13

The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.

Proverbs 29:25

The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe.

Ecclesiastes 11:4

He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.

Ecclesiastes 3:3

a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

Haggai 1:1

In the second year of Dari´us the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the Lord by Hag´gai the prophet unto Zerub´babel the son of She-al´ti-el, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jos´edech, the high priest, saying,

Haggai 1:3

Then came the word of the Lord by Hag´gai the prophet, saying,

Numbers 13:31

But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.