Haggai 1:2 - The Scriptures 1998

² “Thus spoke יהוה  of hosts, saying, ‘This people have said, “The time has not come, the time the House of יהוה  is to 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.

Haggai 1:2 Cross References

2 Kings 12:7

and Sovereign Yeho’ash called Yehoyaḏ

Ezra 4:23

Now when the copy of the letter of Sovereign Artaḥ

Nehemiah 4:10

And Yehuḏ

Proverbs 22:13

The lazy one says, “There is a lion outside! I am going to be killed in the streets!”

Proverbs 29:25

The fear of man brings a snare, But whoever trusts in יהוה  is set on high.

Ecclesiastes 11:4

He who watches the wind does not sow, and he who looks at the clouds does not reap.

Ecclesiastes 3:3

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

Ecclesiastes 9:10

All that your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.

Haggai 1:1

In the second year of Dareyawesh the sovereign, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of יהוה  came by Ḥ

Haggai 1:3

Then the word of יהוה  came by Ḥ

Numbers 13:31

But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.”