Haggai 1:4
Is it time for you, O ye, fto dwell in your *cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
f:
Philippians 2:21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
Zephaniah 2:14 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
2 Samuel 7:2 That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.
Psalms 132:2-132:4 2. How he sware unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob; 3. Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed; 4. I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,
*:
cieled-panelled, overlaid.
you think it full time to build your own houses, you judge it seasonable enough to lay out much cost on adorning them, what pretence can you make that it is not seasonable to build my house?
Jews, who were by a king (that knew not your God) sent to build my house, you unthankful and forgetful ones.
to settle yourselves securely, and for continuance with stateliness.
searched and with cedar wainscot, curiously carved and covered, and as richly adorned as if you were full of treasures.
it seems to intimate some of them had more than one house, a city and a country house, and whilst God’s house lay waste; they thus lavish out their wealth on private worldly conveniences, but grudge the charge on God’s house. Can you thus live without a temple, an altar, a sacrifice, and yet cannot live without stately houses? Do you owe so much to yourselves, and so little to your God? so much to your bodies, so little to your souls?
in its rubbish, or in bare, naked foundations without any superstructure.