Haggai 2:5-15

5 ‘This is what I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt. And my Spirit remains among you. Do not fear.’
6 “This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘In a little while I will once more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land.
7 I will shake all nations, and what is desired by all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,’ says the LORD Almighty.
8 ‘The silver is mine and the gold is mine,’ declares the LORD Almighty.
9 ‘The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house,’ says the LORD Almighty. ‘And in this place I will grant peace,’ declares the LORD Almighty.”

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.

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Cross References 23

  • 1. S Genesis 6:18
  • 2. S Exodus 29:46
  • 3. S Nehemiah 9:20; Isaiah 63:11
  • 4. S Genesis 15:1; 1 Chronicles 28:20; S Ezra 5:2; Zechariah 8:13
  • 5. S Isaiah 10:25
  • 6. S Exodus 19:18; S Job 9:6; S Isaiah 14:16; S Ezekiel 38:19; Hebrews 12:26*
  • 7. S 1 Samuel 9:20
  • 8. S Isaiah 60:7
  • 9. S Exodus 16:7; S Exodus 29:43; Luke 2:32
  • 10. S 1 Chronicles 29:2
  • 11. S Psalms 85:9; S Isaiah 11:10
  • 12. S Ezra 3:12; S Isaiah 60:7
  • 13. S Leviticus 26:6; S Isaiah 60:17
  • 14. S ver 1; S Haggai 1:15
  • 15. S Leviticus 10:10-11; Deuteronomy 17:8-11; Deuteronomy 33:8; S Jeremiah 18:18; Malachi 2:7
  • 16. Jeremiah 11:15
  • 17. S Genesis 7:2; S Leviticus 6:27; Matthew 23:19
  • 18. Leviticus 22:4-6; Numbers 19:13
  • 19. S Isaiah 29:13
  • 20. S Psalms 51:17; S Isaiah 1:13
  • 21. S Haggai 1:5
  • 22. S Ezra 3:10
  • 23. Ezra 4:24

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