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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 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</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="../">Brenton</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/haggai/2-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Coming Glory of God’s House<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><font color=blue>(2:2)</font> In the seventh month, on the twenty-first <i>day</i> of the month, the Lord spoke by Aggaeus the prophet, saying, <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><font color=blue>(2:3)</font> Speak now to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, of the tribe of Juda, and to Jesus the son of Josedec, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, saying, <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><font color=blue>(2:4)</font> Who <i>is there</i> of you that saw this house in her former glory? and how do ye now look upon it, as it were nothing before your eyes? <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><font color=blue>(2:5)</font> Yet now be strong, O Zorobabel, saith the Lord; and strengthen thyself, O Jesus the high priest, the son of Josedec; and let all the people of the land strengthen themselves, saith the Lord, and work, for I am with you, saith the Lord Almighty; <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><font color=blue>(2:6)</font> and my Spirit remains in the midst of you; be of good courage. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><font color=blue>(2:7)</font> For thus saith the Lord Almighty; Yet once I will shake the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry <i>land</i>; <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><font color=blue>(2:8)</font> and I will shake all nations, and the choice <i>portions</i> of all the nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord Almighty. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><font color=blue>(2:9)</font> Mine is the silver, and mine the gold, saith the Lord Almighty. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><font color=blue>(2:10)</font> For the glory of this house shall be great, the latter more than the former, saith the Lord Almighty: and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord Almighty, even peace of soul for a possession to every one that builds, to raise up this temple.<p> <A name="11"></a><p class="hdg">Blessings for a Defiled People<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><font color=blue>(2:11)</font> On the four and twentieth <i>day</i> of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Aggaeus the prophet, saying, <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><font color=blue>(2:12)</font> Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Inquire now of the priest <i>concerning</i> the law, saying, <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><font color=blue>(2:13)</font> If a man should take holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and the skirt of his garment should touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><font color=blue>(2:14)</font> And Aggaeus said, If a defiled person who is unclean by reason of a dead body, touch any of these, shall it be defiled? And the priests answered and said, It shall be defiled. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><font color=blue>(2:15)</font> And Aggaeus answered and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the Lord; and so are all the works of their hands: and whosoever shall approach them, shall be defiled <i><i>because of their early burdens: they shall be pained because of their toils; and ye have hated him that reproved in the gates</i></i>. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><font color=blue>(2:16)</font> And now consider, I pray you, from this day and beforetime, before they laid a stone on a stone in the temple of the Lord, what manner of men ye were. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><font color=blue>(2:17)</font> When ye cast into the corn-bin twenty measures of barley, and there were <i>only</i> ten measures of barley: and ye went to the vat to draw out fifty measures, and there were <i>but</i> twenty. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><font color=blue>(2:18)</font> I smote you with barrenness, and with blasting, and all the works of your hands with hail; yet ye returned not to me, saith the Lord. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><font color=blue>(2:19)</font> Set your hearts now <i>to think</i> from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth <i>day</i> of the ninth month, even from the day when the foundation of the temple of the Lord was laid; <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><font color=blue>(2:20)</font> consider in your hearts, whether <i>this</i> shall be known on the corn-floor, and whether yet the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-trees that bear no fruit <i>are with you</i>: from this day will I bless <i>you</i>.<p> <A name="21"></a><p class="hdg">Zerubbabel the LORD’s Signet Ring<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><font color=blue>(2:21)</font> And the word of the Lord came the second time to Aggaeus the prophet, on the four and twentieth <i>day</i> of the month, saying, <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><font color=blue>(2:22)</font> Speak to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, of the tribe of Juda, saying, I shake the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry <i>land</i>; <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><font color=blue>(2:23)</font> and I will overthrow the thrones of kings, and I will destroy the power of the kings of the nations; and I will overthrow chariots and riders; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword striving against his brother. <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><font color=blue>(2:24)</font> In that day, saith the Lord Almighty, I will take thee, O Zorobabel, the son of Salathiel, my servant, saith the Lord, and will make thee as a seal: for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord Almighty.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../haggai/1.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Haggai 1"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Haggai 1" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../zechariah/1.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Zechariah 1"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Zechariah 1" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>