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and they will come with the wealth of all nations, and I will fill this house with glory, says the L<font size="1">ORD</font> of hosts. <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine, declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font> of hosts. <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former, says the L<font size="1">ORD</font> of hosts, and in this place I will give peace, declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font> of hosts. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>On the twenty-fourth of the ninth <i>month,</i> in the second year of Darius, the word of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> came to Haggai the prophet, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>Thus says the L<font size="1">ORD</font> of hosts, Ask now the priests <i>for</i> a ruling: <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>If a man carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and touches bread with this fold, or cooked food, wine, oil, or any <i>other</i> food, will it become holy? And the priests answered, No. <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>Then Haggai said, If one who is unclean from a corpse touches any of these, will <i>the latter</i> become unclean? And the priests answered, It will become unclean. <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>Then Haggai said,  So is this people. And so is this nation before Me, declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, and so is every work of their hands; and what they offer there is unclean. <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>But now, do consider from this day onward: before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>from that time <i>when</i> one came to a <i>grain</i> heap of twenty <i>measures,</i> there would be only ten; and <i>when</i> one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there would be <i>only</i> twenty. <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>I smote you <i>and</i> every work of your hands with blasting wind, mildew and hail; yet you <i>did</i> not <i>come back</i> to Me, declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>Do consider from this day onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth <i>month;</i> from the day when the temple of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> was founded, consider: <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>Is the seed still in the barn? Even including the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate and the olive tree, it has not borne <i>fruit.</i> Yet from this day on I will bless <i>you.</i> <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>Then the word of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> came a second time to Haggai on the twenty-fourth <i>day</i> of the month, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Speak to Zerubbabel governor of Judah, saying, I am going to shake the heavens and the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>I will overthrow the thrones of kingdoms and destroy the power of the kingdoms of the nations; and I will overthrow the chariots and their riders, and the horses and their riders will go down, everyone by the sword of another. <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>On that day, declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font> of hosts, I will take you, Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, My servant, declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, and I will make you like a signet <i>ring,</i> for I have chosen you, declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font> of hosts. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/haggai/2.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/haggai/2.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />For thus saith the Lord of hosts: Yet one little while, and I will move the heaven and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/haggai/2.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/haggai/2.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />For thus saith the LORD of hosts: Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/haggai/2.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/haggai/2.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />For this is what Yahweh of Armies says: 'Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/haggai/2.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> For thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Yet once more -- it is a little, And I am shaking the heavens and the earth, And the sea, and the dry land,<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_a/brave_encouragements.htm">Brave Encouragements</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the Lord by the prophet Haggai, saying, 2. Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying, 3. Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing? 4. Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the Lord; and be strong, O Joshua, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_a/brave_encouragements.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newton/messiah_vol_1/sermon_iii_the_shaking_of.htm">The Shaking of the Heavens and the Earth</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Yet this once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land: and I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts. G od shook the earth when He proclaimed His law to Israel from Sinai. The description, though very simple, presents to our thoughts a scene unspeakably majestic, grand and awful. The mountain was in flames at the top, and <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newton/messiah_vol_1/sermon_iii_the_shaking_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Newton—</span><span class="citation2">Messiah Vol. 1</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_32_1886/the_abiding_of_the_spirit.htm">The Abiding of the Spirit the Glory of the Church</a><br></span><span class="snippet">By the mouth of His servant Haggai stern rebukes were uttered, and the whole people were aroused. We read in verse twelve of the first chapter, "Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the Lord their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the Lord their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the Lord." All hands were put to the work; course after course of stone began to rise; and <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_32_1886/the_abiding_of_the_spirit.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 32: 1886</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_61_1915/the_desire_of_all_nations.htm">The Desire of all Nations</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of Hosts."--Haggai 2:7. THE second temple was never intended to be as magnificent as the first. The first was to be the embodiment of the full glory of the dispensation of symbols and types, and was soon to pass away. This comparative feebleness had been proved by the idolatry and apostasy of the people Israel, and when they returned to Jerusalem they were to have a structure <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_61_1915/the_desire_of_all_nations.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 61: 1915</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/pink/the_redeemers_return/5_the_overturning_which_is.htm">The Overturning which is visible on Every Hand. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"I will overturn, overturn, overturn it, and it shall be no more, until He come whose right it is" (Ezek. 21:27). In close accord with this prophecy through Ezekiel is the word recorded in Haggai 2:6, 7--"For thus saith the Lord of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land. And I will shake all nations, and the Desire of all nations shall come." Note carefully the coupling of these two things together--the coming of the Desire <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/pink/the_redeemers_return/5_the_overturning_which_is.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Arthur W. Pink—</span><span class="citation2">The Redeemer's Return</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kuyper/the_work_of_the_holy_spirit/xxiv_the_outpouring_of_the.htm">The Outpouring of the Holy Spirit. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"The Holy Spirit was not yet given because that Jesus was not yet glorified."--John vii. 39. We have come to the most difficult part in the discussion of the work of the Holy Spirit, viz., the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the tenth day after the ascension. In the treatment of this subject it is not our aim to create a new interest in the celebration of Pentecost. We consider this almost impossible. Man's nature is too unspiritual for this. But we shall reverently endeavor to give a clearer insight <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kuyper/the_work_of_the_holy_spirit/xxiv_the_outpouring_of_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Abraham Kuyper—</span><span class="citation2">The Work of the Holy Spirit</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/guyon/song_of_songs_of_solomon/16_his_throat_is_most.htm">His Throat is Most Sweet, Yea, He is Altogether Lovely. This is My Beloved, and this is My Friend, O Daughters of Jerusalem. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">The good qualities of ordinary things may be sufficiently well expressed by ordinary phrases of commendation, but there are some subjects so above expression that they can only be worthily admired by declaring them above all praise. Such is the Divine Bridegroom, who, by the excess of His perfections, renders His Bride dumb when she endeavors most worthily to praise Him, that all hearts and minds may be attracted to Him. Her passion causes her to burst out into the praise of some of the excellencies <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/guyon/song_of_songs_of_solomon/16_his_throat_is_most.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Madame Guyon—</span><span class="citation2">Song of Songs of Solomon</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/sermon_xi_wash_you_make.htm">"Wash You, Make You Clean; Put Away the Evil of Your Doings from Before Mine Eyes; Cease to do Evil,"</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Isaiah i. 16.--"Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil," &c. There are two evils in sin,--one is the nature of it, another the fruit and sad effect of it. In itself it is filthiness, and contrary to God's holiness; an abasing of the immortal soul; a spot in the face of the Lord of the creatures, that hath far debased him under them all. Though it be so unnatural to us, yet it is now in our fallen estate become, as it were, natural, so that <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/sermon_xi_wash_you_make.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Hugh Binning—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/sell/studies_in_the_life_of_the_christian/study_xi_the_christian_business.htm">The Christian Business World</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Scripture references: Proverbs 22:29; Romans 12:11; Psalms 24:1; 50:10-12; Haggai 2:8; Psalm 49:6,10,16,17; 62:10; Matthew 13:22; Mark 10:23,24; Job 31:24-26; Proverbs 3:9; Matthew 25:14-30; 24:45-51; 6:19-21; Luke 12:16-21. THE IDEAL IN THE BUSINESS WORLD There is often a wide difference between the methods actually employed in doing business and when they should be. Good men who are in the thick of the battle of competition and rivalry with other firms in the same line of trade, are the quickest <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/sell/studies_in_the_life_of_the_christian/study_xi_the_christian_business.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Henry T. Sell—</span><span class="citation2">Studies in the Life of the Christian</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/clarke/a_discourse_concerning_the_being_and_attributes_of_god/xiv_proposition_xiv_fifthly_as.htm">Fifthly, as this Revelation, to the Judgment of Right and Sober Reason,</a><br></span><span class="snippet">appears of itself highly credible and probable, and abundantly recommends itself in its native simplicity, merely by its own intrinsic goodness and excellency, to the practice of the most rational and considering men, who are desirous in all their actions to have satisfaction and comfort and good hope within themselves, from the conscience of what they do: So it is moreover positively and directly proved to be actually and immediately sent to us from God, by the many infallible signs and miracles <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/clarke/a_discourse_concerning_the_being_and_attributes_of_god/xiv_proposition_xiv_fifthly_as.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Samuel Clarke—</span><span class="citation2">A Discourse Concerning the Being and Attributes of God</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_97_the_cities_of.htm">The Cities of the Levites. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Concerning them, see Numbers, chapter 35, and Joshua chapter 21. "The suburbs of the cities of the Levites were three thousand cubits on every side; viz. from the walls of the city, and outwards; as it is said, 'From the walls of the city and outwards a thousand cubits: and thou shalt measure from without the city two thousand cubits' (Num 35:4,5). The former thousand were the suburbs, and the latter two thousand were for fields and vineyards. They appointed the place of burial to every one of those <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_97_the_cities_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Lightfoot—</span><span class="citation2">From the Talmud and Hebraica</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/haggai/2-6.htm">Haggai 2:6 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/haggai/2-6.htm">Haggai 2:6 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/haggai/2-6.htm">Haggai 2:6 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/haggai/2-6.htm">Haggai 2:6 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/haggai/2-6.htm">Haggai 2:6 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/haggai/2-6.htm">Haggai 2:6 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/haggai/2-6.htm">Haggai 2:6 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../haggai/2-5.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Haggai 2:5"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Haggai 2:5" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../haggai/2-7.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Haggai 2:7"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Haggai 2:7" /></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></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/haggai/2-6.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>