Command to Rebuild the Temple
1 In the second year of King Darius,on the first day of the sixth month, the word of theLordcame through Haggaithe prophet to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel,the governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest:
2 “TheLordof Hosts says this: These people say: The time has not come for the house of theLordto be rebuilt.”
3 The word of theLordcame through Haggai the prophet:
4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses,while this houselies in ruins? ”
5 Now, theLordof Hosts says this: “Think carefullyaboutyour ways:
6 You have planted much
but harvested little.
You eat
but never have enough to be satisfied.
You drink
but never have enough to become drunk.
You put on clothes
but never have enough to get warm.
The wage earner puts his wages
into a bag with a hole in it.”
7 TheLordof Hosts says this: “Think carefully aboutyour ways.
8 Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house. Then I will be pleased with it and be glorified,” says theLord.
9 “You expected much, but then it amounted to little. When you brought the harvest to your house, I ruinedit. Why? ” This is the declaration of theLordof Hosts. “Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.
10 So on your account,
the skies have withheld the dew
and the land its crops.
11 I have summoned a drought
on the fields and the hills,
on the grain, new wine, olive oil,
and whatever the ground yields,
on man and beast,
and on all that your hands produce.”
The People’s Response
12 Then Zerubbabelson of Shealtiel, the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak, and the entire remnant of the peopleobeyed the voice of theLordtheir God and the words of the prophet Haggai, because theLordtheir God had sent him. So the people feared theLord.
13 Haggai, theLord’s messenger, delivered theLord’s message to the people, “I am with you”— this is theLord’s declaration.
14 TheLordstirred up the spiritof Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, the spirit of the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. They began work on the house of Yahweh of Hosts, their God,
15 on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius.
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