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A Call to Rebuild the Temple
(Ezra 5:1-5)
1In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the
word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah,
and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying, 2Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts,
saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD'S house should be built.
3Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, 4[Is it] time for you, O ye, to
dwell in your cieled houses, and this house [lie] waste? 5Now therefore thus saith the LORD of
hosts; Consider your ways. 6Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not
enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he
that earneth wages earneth wages [to put it] into a bag with holes.
7Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. 8Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and
build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD. 9Ye looked for
much, and, lo, [it came] to little; and when ye brought [it] home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith
the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that [is] waste, and ye run every man unto his own
house. 10Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed [from] her
fruit. 11And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and
upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon [that] which the ground bringeth forth, and upon
men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
The People Obey
12Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all
the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the
prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD. 13Then
spake Haggai the LORD'S messenger in the LORD'S message unto the people, saying, I [am] with
you, saith the LORD. 14And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel,
governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all
the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their
God, 15In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
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King James Bible
Greater Glory in New Temple
1In the seventh [month], in the one and twentieth [day] of the month, came the word of the LORD
by the prophet Haggai, saying, 2Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah,
and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying, 3Who
[is] left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? [is it] not in
your eyes in comparison of it as nothing? 4Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and
be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land,
saith the LORD, and work: for I [am] with you, saith the LORD of hosts: 5[According to] the word
that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye
not. 6For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it [is] a little while, and I will shake the heavens,
and the earth, and the sea, and the dry [land]; 7And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all
nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts. 8The silver [is]
mine, and the gold [is] mine, saith the LORD of hosts. 9The glory of this latter house shall be
greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the
LORD of hosts.
Blessings for a Defiled People
10In the four and twentieth [day] of the ninth [month], in the second year of Darius, came the word
of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, 11Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests
[concerning] the law, saying, 12If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt
do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered
and said, No. 13Then said Haggai, If [one that is] unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall
it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean. 14Then answered Haggai,
and said, So [is] this people, and so [is] this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so [is] every
work of their hands; and that which they offer there [is] unclean. 15And now, I pray you, consider
from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:
16Since those [days] were, when [one] came to an heap of twenty [measures], there were [but]
ten: when [one] came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty [vessels] out of the press, there were
[but] twenty. 17I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your
hands; yet ye [turned] not to me, saith the LORD. 18Consider now from this day and upward, from
the four and twentieth day of the ninth [month, even] from the day that the foundation of the
LORD'S temple was laid, consider [it]. 19Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the
fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless
[you].
Zerubbabel the Lord's Signet Ring
20And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth [day] of the month,
saying, 21Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;
22And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of
the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and
their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother. 23In that day, saith the LORD
of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and will
make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts.