Haggai - Introduction
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The Jews' adversaries, on the resumption of the work under Zerubbabel, Haggai, and Zechariah, tried to set Darius against it; but that monarch confirmed Cyrus' decree and ordered all help to be given to the building of the temple ( Ezra 5:3 the temple was completed in the sixth year of Darius' reign 516-515 B.C. ( Ezra 6:14
The style of Haggai is consonant with his messages: pathetic in exhortation, vehement in reproofs, elevated in contemplating the glorious future. The repetition of the same phrases (for example, "saith the Lord," or "the Lord of hosts," Haggai 1:2 Haggai 1:5 Haggai 1:7 in one verse, Haggai 2:4 Haggai 1:14 awaken the solemn attention of the people, and to awaken them from their apathy, to which also the interrogatory form, often adopted, especially tends. Chaldaisms occur ( Haggai 2:3 ; 2:6 ; 2:16 been expected in a writer who was so long in Chaldea. Parts are purely prose history; the rest is somewhat rhythmical, and observant of poetic parallelism.
Haggai is referred to in Ezra 5:1 ; 6:14 ( Hebrews 12:26