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Haggai 2:18-20
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Haggai 2:18-20
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18 ‘Think carefully[a] about the past: from today, the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month,[b] to the day work on the temple of the Lord was resumed,[c] think about it.[d] 19 The seed is still in the storehouse, isn’t it? And the vine, fig tree, pomegranate, and olive tree have not produced. Nevertheless, from today on I will bless you.’”
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20 Then the Lord spoke to Haggai[e] a second time on the twenty-fourth day of the month:[f]
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- Haggai 2:18 tn Heb “set your heart.” A similar expression occurs in v. 15.
- Haggai 2:18 sn The twenty-fourth day of the ninth month was Kislev 24 or December 18, 520. See v. 10. Here the reference is to “today,” the day the oracle is being delivered.
- Haggai 2:18 sn The day work…was resumed. This does not refer to the initial founding of the Jerusalem temple in 536 b.c. but to the renewal of construction three months earlier (see 1:15). This is clear from the situation described in v. 19 which accords with the food scarcities of that time already detailed in Hag 1:10-11.
- Haggai 2:18 tn Heb “set your heart.” A similar expression occurs in v. 15 and at the beginning of this verse.
- Haggai 2:20 sn This Hebrew expression is like the one in 2:10 and is slightly different from the one in 1:1, 3; 2:1.
- Haggai 2:20 sn Again, the twenty-fourth day of the month was Kislev 24 or December 18, 520 b.c. See v. 10.
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