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Consider Your Situation[a]

Chapter 1

In the second year of King Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the Lord was communicated by the prophet Haggai to the governor of Judah, Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and to the high priest Joshua, the son of Jehozadak: “Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘This people says that the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the Lord.’ ” Then the word of the Lord came through the prophet Haggai:

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Footnotes

  1. Haggai 1:1 The oracle dates from August of 520 B.C., and should logically end with a passage to be found further on in Hag 2:15-19.