Haggai 1:2
cThus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, dThe time is not come, the time that the LORD's house should be built.
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD's house should be built.
c:
2 Peter 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
2 Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
d:
Proverbs 26:16 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
Proverbs 24:33 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
Ezra 4:21 Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not builded, until another commandment shall be given from me.
Ezra 4:24 Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
Ezra 5:1 Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, even unto them.
by way of reproof, and to awaken the drowsy Jews; he who knew their heart tells them what they both thought and spoke.
whom mercy preserved in, redeemed out of Babylon, and brought into their land on purpose to build the temple. This people, whom Cyrus by proclamation sent to do this, who seemed to long for a temple when they were in Babylon.
discourse thus among themselves, and discourage all that were forward. The time is not come; the proper season of rebuilding the house of God seems to be not come, for since the prohibition by Cambyses in the days of Cyrus, and through all the time of Cambyses, and in the first year and part of the second of Darius, we have no commission to do it, but are required not to do any thing in this affair without further order, Ezr 4:21.