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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Haggai 2 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/haggai/2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/haggai/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Haggai 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../haggai/1.htm" title="Haggai 1">◄</a> Haggai 2 <a href="../zechariah/1.htm" title="Zechariah 1">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/haggai/2.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>on the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the word of the <span class="name">Lord</span> came through the prophet Haggai: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Speak to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, to Joshua son of Jozadak, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew Jehozadak, a variant of Jozadak; also in verse 4">a</a></sup></span> the high priest, and to the remnant of the people. Ask them, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>‘Who of you is left who saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to you now? Does it not seem to you like nothing? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ declares the <span class="name">Lord</span>. ‘Be strong, Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,’ declares the <span class="name">Lord</span>, ‘and work. For I am with you,’ declares the <span class="name">Lord</span> Almighty. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>‘This is what I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt. And my Spirit remains among you. Do not fear.’</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“This is what the <span class="name">Lord</span> Almighty says: ‘In a little while I will once more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>I will shake all nations, and what is desired by all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,’ says the <span class="name">Lord</span> Almighty. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>‘The silver is mine and the gold is mine,’ declares the <span class="name">Lord</span> Almighty. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>‘The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house,’ says the <span class="name">Lord</span> Almighty. ‘And in this place I will grant peace,’ declares the <span class="name">Lord</span> Almighty.”</p> <p class="sectionhead">Blessings for a Defiled People</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/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 <span class="name">Lord</span> came to the prophet Haggai: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“This is what the <span class="name">Lord</span> Almighty says: ‘Ask the priests what the law says: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>If someone carries consecrated meat in the fold of their garment, and that fold touches some bread or stew, some wine, olive oil or other food, does it become consecrated?’ ”</p><p class="reg">The priests answered, “No.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then Haggai said, “If a person defiled by contact with a dead body touches one of these things, does it become defiled?”</p><p class="reg">“Yes,” the priests replied, “it becomes defiled.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then Haggai said, “ ‘So it is with this people and this nation in my sight,’ declares the <span class="name">Lord</span>. ‘Whatever they do and whatever they offer there is defiled.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“ ‘Now give careful thought to this from this day on <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or to the days past">b</a></sup></span> —consider how things were before one stone was laid on another in the <span class="name">Lord</span>’s temple. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>When anyone came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When anyone went to a wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were only twenty. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I struck all the work of your hands with blight, mildew and hail, yet you did not return to me,’ declares the <span class="name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>‘From this day on, from this twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, give careful thought to the day when the foundation of the <span class="name">Lord</span>’s temple was laid. Give careful thought: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Is there yet any seed left in the barn? Until now, the vine and the fig tree, the pomegranate and the olive tree have not borne fruit.</p><p class="reg">“ ‘From this day on I will bless you.’ ”</p> <p class="sectionhead">Zerubbabel the <span class="name">Lord</span>’s Signet Ring</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The word of the <span class="name">Lord</span> came to Haggai a second time on the twenty-fourth day of the month: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“Tell Zerubbabel governor of Judah that I am going to shake the heavens and the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>I will overturn royal thrones and shatter the power of the foreign kingdoms. I will overthrow chariots and their drivers; horses and their riders will fall, each by the sword of his brother.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>“ ‘On that day,’ declares the <span class="name">Lord</span> Almighty, ‘I will take you, my servant Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel,’ declares the <span class="name">Lord</span>, ‘and I will make you like my signet ring, for I have chosen you,’ declares the <span class="name">Lord</span> Almighty.”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotebot">Hebrew <i>Jehozadak</i>, a variant of <i>Jozadak</i>; also in verse 4</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>to the days past</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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