Haggai 2:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

“Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to you now? Doesn’t it seem to you like nothing by comparison?

Cross References

Ezra 3:12

But many of the older priests, Levites, and family heads, who had seen the first temple, wept loudly when they saw the foundation of this temple,  but many others shouted joyfully.

Ezekiel 7:20

He appointed his beautiful ornaments for majesty, but  they made their detestable images from them, their abhorrent things. Therefore, I have made these into something filthy to them.

Haggai 2:9

‘The final glory of this house  will be greater than the first,’  says the Lord of Armies. ‘I will provide peace in this place’   #– #this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies.

1 Chronicles 22:5

David said, ‘My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the Lord must be exceedingly great and famous and glorious in all the lands.  Therefore, I will make provision for it.’ So David made lavish preparations for it before his death.

Ezra 3:11

They sang with praise and thanksgiving to the Lord: ‘For he is good; his faithful love to Israel endures for ever.’  Then all the people gave a great shout of praise to the Lord because the foundation of the Lord’s house had been laid.

Isaiah 64:10

Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.