Haggai 1:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁰Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

Haggai 1:10 —

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Cross-References

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1 Kings 8:35
When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:
Leviticus 26:19
And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
1 Kings 17:1
And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
Deuteronomy 28:23-24
And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. …
Joel 1:18-20
How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-11)

It was the complaint of the Jews in Babylon that they saw not their signs, and there was no more prophet (Ps. 74:9), which was a just judgment upon them for mocking and misusing the prophets. We read of no prophets they had in their return, as they had in their coming out of Egypt, Hos. 12:13. God stirred them up immediately by his Spirit to exert themselves in that escape (Ezra 1:5); for, though…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 10)

10. heaven ... is stayed from dew--literally, “stays itself.” Thus heaven or the sky is personified; implying that inanimate nature obeys Jehovah’s will; and, shocked at His people’s disobedience, withholds its goods from them (compare Jr 2:12, 13).