Haggai 2:18

18 'Do ¹consider * from this day onward, from the ²twenty-fourth * day of the ninth month; from the day when the temple of the LORD was ³founded, consider *:

Haggai 2:18 Meaning and Commentary

Haggai 2:18

Consider now from this day and upward
Or forward; for time to come, as the Vulgate Latin version: from the four and twentieth day of the ninth [month];
before observed, ( Haggai 2:10 Haggai 2:15 ) : even from the day that the foundation of the Lord's temple was laid,
consider [it];
not from the time it was first laid after their return upon the proclamation of Cyrus, but from the time they began to clear that foundation, and to build upon it; and which having lain so long neglected, the renewal of it is represented as a fresh laying of it: now the prophet, as he had directed them to consider what adversity and calamities had attended them from the time of their neglect unto this time; so he would have them particularly observe what blessings they would enjoy from henceforward; by which it would appear how pleasing it was to the Lord that they had begun and were going on with the building.

Haggai 2:18 In-Context

16 from that time when one came to a grain heap of twenty measures, there would be only ten; and when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there would be only twenty.

17 'I smote you and every work of your hands with blasting wind, mildew and hail; yet you did not come back to Me,' declares the LORD .

18 'Do consider from this day onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month; from the day when the temple of the LORD was founded, consider :

19 'Is the seed still in the barn? Even including the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate and the olive tree, it has not borne fruit. Yet from this day on I will bless you."'

20 Then the word of the LORD came a second time to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying,

Cross References

• 1. Deuteronomy 32:29; Haggai 2:15
• 2. Haggai 2:10
• 3. Ezra 5:1, 2; Zechariah 8:9, 12

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "set your heart"
• [b]. Or "backward"
• [c]. Lit "set your heart"