Haggai 2:10

The LORD Will Make His People Pure and Clean

10 A third message came to me from the Lord. It came on the 24th day of the ninth month of the second year that Darius was king.

Haggai 2:10 Meaning and Commentary

Haggai 2:10

In the four and twentieth [day] of the ninth [month]
The month Chisleu, which answers to part of November, and part of December: this was two months and three days after the former discourse or prophecy, and just three months from the time the Jews began to work in the house of the Lord, ( Haggai 1:14 Haggai 1:15 ) ( 2:1 ) in the second year of Darius;
the same year that all the former discourses and prophecies were delivered in: came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet;
for what he delivered was not his own, but from the Lord; he was only his minister and messenger. The Vulgate Latin version, and so Munster, render it, "unto Haggai the prophet"; and indeed what is said following seems to be directed to him, and he is the only person that put the questions directed to: saying;
as follows:

Haggai 2:10 In-Context

8 "The silver belongs to me. So does the gold," announces the LORD.

9 "The new temple will be more beautiful than the first one was," says the Lord. "And in this place I will give peace to my people," announces the LORD who rules over all.

10 A third message came to me from the Lord. It came on the 24th day of the ninth month of the second year that Darius was king.

11 The LORD who rules over all speaks. He says, "Ask the priests what the law says.

12 Suppose someone carries holy meat in the clothes he is wearing. And the clothes touch some bread or stew. Or they touch some wine, olive oil or other food. Then do those things also become holy?" The priests answered, "No."