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Ask them, <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to you now? Does it not appear to you like nothing in comparison?’ <A name="5"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But now be strong, O Zerubbabel, <p class="indent2"> declares the LORD. <p class="indent1"> Be strong, O Joshua son of Jehozadak, <p class="indent2"> the high priest. <p class="indent1"> And be strong, all you people of the land, <p class="indent2"> declares the LORD. <p class="indent1"> Work! For I am with you, <p class="indent2"> declares the LORD of Hosts. <A name="6"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>This is the promise I made to you <p class="indent2"> when you came out of Egypt. <p class="indent1"> And My Spirit remains among you; <p class="indent2"> do not be afraid.” <A name="7"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: <p class="indent1stline">“Once more, in a little while, <p class="indent2"> I will shake the heavens and the earth,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> <p class="indent2"> the sea and the dry land. <A name="8"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>I will shake all the nations, <p class="indent2"> and they will come with all their treasures, <p class="indent1"> and I will fill this house with glory, <p class="indent2"> says the LORD of Hosts. <A name="9"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine, <p class="indent2"> declares the LORD of Hosts. <A name="10"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The latter glory of this house <p class="indent2"> will be greater than the former, <p class="indent2"> says the LORD of Hosts. <p class="indent1"> And in this place I will provide peace, <p class="indent2"> declares the LORD of Hosts.” <A name="11"></a><p class="hdg">Blessings for a Defiled People<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Haggai the prophet, saying, <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Ask the priests for a ruling. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>If a man carries consecrated meat in the fold of his garment, and it touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any other food, does that item become holy?’<span class="thinq"> </span>” <p class="reg">“No,” replied the priests. <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So Haggai asked, “If one who is defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of these, does it become defiled?” <p class="reg">“Yes, it becomes defiled,” the priests answered. <A name="15"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then Haggai replied, “So it is with this people and this nation before Me, declares the LORD, and so it is with every work of their hands; whatever they offer there is defiled. <A name="16"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Now consider carefully from this day forward:<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> Before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the LORD, <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">e</a></span> there were but twenty. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I struck you—all the work of your hands—with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to Me, declares the LORD. <A name="19"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Consider carefully from this day forward—from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the day the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid—consider carefully: <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Is there still seed in the barn? The vine, the fig, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yet yielded fruit. But from this day on, I will bless you.” <A name="21"></a><p class="hdg">Zerubbabel the LORD’s Signet Ring<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For the second time that day, the twenty-fourth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to Haggai, saying, <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“Tell Zerubbabel governor of Judah that I am about to shake the heavens and the earth: <A name="23"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>I will overturn royal thrones <p class="indent2"> and destroy the power <p class="indent2"> of the kingdoms of the nations. <p class="indent1"> I will overturn chariots and their riders; <p class="indent2"> horses and their riders will fall, <p class="indent2"> each by the sword of his brother. <p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>On that day, <p class="indent2"> declares the LORD of Hosts, <p class="indent1"> I will take you, My servant, <p class="indent2"> Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, <p class="indent2"> declares the LORD, <p class="indent1"> and I will make you like My signet ring, <p class="indent2"> for I have chosen you, <p class="indent2"> declares the LORD of Hosts.”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <i>Jehozadak</i><span class="thin"> </span> is a variant of <i>Jozadak</i><span class="thin"> </span>; also in verse 4; see <a href="../ezra/3.htm#2">Ezra 3:2</a>.<br><span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Cited in <a href="../hebrews/12.htm#26">Hebrews 12:26</a><br><span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Or <i>backward</i><span class="thin"> </span>; also in verse 18<br><span class="fnverse">16</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Literally <i>a heap of twenty</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">16</span> <span class="footnotesbot">e</span> Literally <i>to draw out fifty from the winepress</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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