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In 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, Explain This Verse
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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. Explain This Verse
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Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying, Explain This Verse
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Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? Explain This Verse
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Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways. Explain This Verse
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Ye 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. Explain This Verse
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Go 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. Explain This Verse
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Ye 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. Explain This Verse
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Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit. Explain This Verse
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And 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. Explain This Verse
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Then 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. Explain This Verse
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Then spake Haggai the Lord’s messenger in the Lord’s message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the Lord. Explain This Verse
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And 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, Explain This Verse
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In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king. Explain This Verse