Haggai 2:8

8 All the silver and gold of the world is mine.

Haggai 2:8 Meaning and Commentary

Haggai 2:8

The silver [is] mine, and the gold [is] mine, saith the Lord of
hosts.
] This seems designed to anticipate an objection taken from the gold and silver, with which the first temple was either decorated, or were in gifts dedicated to it; and which, it might easily be foreseen, would be wanting in the second temple; and in answer to which the Lord observes, that all the gold and silver in the world were his, were made by him, and were at his dispose; and therefore whatever were bestowed upon the former temple was only giving him his own; what he had a prior right to, and was no accession of riches or honour to him; and so it would be the same, let what would be expended on this; and therefore it was an article very inconsiderable, and of little significance; nor did he regard, or was he delighted with anything of this kind; and, was he so disposed, he could easily command all the gold and silver in the world together, and bring it into this house, to enrich and adorn it, without doing any injury to any person; but these were things he delighted not in; and, besides, he had a far greater glory in view to put upon this house, as follows:

Haggai 2:8 In-Context

6 "Before long I will shake heaven and earth, land and sea.

7 I will overthrow all the nations, and their treasures will be brought here, and the Temple will be filled with wealth.

8 All the silver and gold of the world is mine.

9 The new Temple will be more splendid than the old one, and there I will give my people prosperity and peace." The Lord Almighty has spoken.

10 On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month of the second year that Darius was emperor, the Lord Almighty spoke again to the prophet Haggai.