Haggai 2:10-19

Blessings for a Defiled People

10 On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Haggai:
11 “This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘Ask the priests what the law says:
12 If someone carries consecrated meat in the fold of their garment, and that fold touches some bread or stew, some wine, olive oil or other food, does it become consecrated?’ ” The priests answered, “No.”
13 Then Haggai said, “If a person defiled by contact with a dead body touches one of these things, does it become defiled?” “Yes,” the priests replied, “it becomes defiled.”
14 Then Haggai said, “ ‘So it is with this people and this nation in my sight,’ declares the LORD. ‘Whatever they do and whatever they offer there is defiled.
15 “ ‘Now give careful thought to this from this day on[a] —consider how things were before one stone was laid on another in the LORD’s temple.
16 When anyone came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When anyone went to a wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were only twenty.
17 I struck all the work of your hands with blight, mildew and hail, yet you did not return to me,’ declares the LORD.
18 ‘From this day on, from this twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, give careful thought to the day when the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid. Give careful thought:
19 Is there yet any seed left in the barn? Until now, the vine and the fig tree, the pomegranate and the olive tree have not borne fruit. “ ‘From this day on I will bless you.’ ”

Cross References 23

  • 1. S ver 1; S Haggai 1:15
  • 2. S Leviticus 10:10-11; Deuteronomy 17:8-11; Deuteronomy 33:8; S Jeremiah 18:18; Malachi 2:7
  • 3. Jeremiah 11:15
  • 4. S Genesis 7:2; S Leviticus 6:27; Matthew 23:19
  • 5. Leviticus 22:4-6; Numbers 19:13
  • 6. S Isaiah 29:13
  • 7. S Psalms 51:17; S Isaiah 1:13
  • 8. S Haggai 1:5
  • 9. S Ezra 3:10
  • 10. Ezra 4:24
  • 11. S Ruth 3:7
  • 12. S Job 24:11; S Isaiah 5:2
  • 13. S Deuteronomy 28:38; S Isaiah 5:10; S Haggai 1:6
  • 14. Haggai 1:11
  • 15. S Deuteronomy 28:22; 1 Kings 8:37; Amos 4:9
  • 16. S Exodus 9:18; Psalms 78:48
  • 17. S Isaiah 9:13; S Jeremiah 3:10
  • 18. S Amos 4:6
  • 19. S Haggai 1:5
  • 20. S Ezra 3:11; Zechariah 8:9
  • 21. S Exodus 28:33
  • 22. S Joel 1:12
  • 23. S Genesis 12:2; S Leviticus 25:21; Psalms 128:1-6; S Joel 2:14

Footnotes 1

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