Haggai 2:14-23

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.’ ”

Zerubbabel the LORD’s Signet Ring

20 The word of the LORD came to Haggai a second time on the twenty-fourth day of the month:
21 “Tell Zerubbabel governor of Judah that I am going to shake the heavens and the earth.
22 I will overturn royal thrones and shatter the power of the foreign kingdoms. I will overthrow chariots and their drivers; horses and their riders will fall, each by the sword of his brother.
23 “ ‘On that day,’ declares the LORD Almighty, ‘I will take you, my servant Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel,’ declares the LORD, ‘and I will make you like my signet ring, for I have chosen you,’ declares the LORD Almighty.”

Cross References 31

  • 1. S Isaiah 29:13
  • 2. S Psalms 51:17; S Isaiah 1:13
  • 3. S Haggai 1:5
  • 4. S Ezra 3:10
  • 5. Ezra 4:24
  • 6. S Ruth 3:7
  • 7. S Job 24:11; S Isaiah 5:2
  • 8. S Deuteronomy 28:38; S Isaiah 5:10; S Haggai 1:6
  • 9. Haggai 1:11
  • 10. S Deuteronomy 28:22; 1 Kings 8:37; Amos 4:9
  • 11. S Exodus 9:18; Psalms 78:48
  • 12. S Isaiah 9:13; S Jeremiah 3:10
  • 13. S Amos 4:6
  • 14. S Haggai 1:5
  • 15. S Ezra 3:11; Zechariah 8:9
  • 16. S Exodus 28:33
  • 17. S Joel 1:12
  • 18. S Genesis 12:2; S Leviticus 25:21; Psalms 128:1-6; S Joel 2:14
  • 19. S Ezra 5:1
  • 20. S ver 1; S Haggai 1:15
  • 21. S Ezra 5:2
  • 22. S Isaiah 14:16; Ezekiel 38:19-20
  • 23. S Genesis 19:25; S Job 2:13
  • 24. S Daniel 2:44
  • 25. S Micah 5:10
  • 26. S Exodus 15:21
  • 27. S Judges 7:22; S Ezekiel 38:21
  • 28. Isaiah 2:11; Isaiah 10:20; Zechariah 4:10
  • 29. S Isaiah 20:3; S Daniel 9:24-26; Isaiah 43:10
  • 30. Matthew 1:12
  • 31. S Genesis 38:18; S Exodus 28:9; 2 Corinthians 1:22

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