Haggai 1:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?

Haggai 1:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 132:3-5
Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed; …
Philippians 2:21
For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
Haggai 1:9
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.
Matthew 6:33
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

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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. 4)

4. Is it time--It is not time (Hag 1:2), ye say, to build Jehovah’s house; yet how is it that ye make it a fit time not only to build, but to “dwell” at ease in your own houses? you, O ye--rather, for “you, you”; the repetition marking the shameful contrast between their concern for themselves, and their unconcern for God [Maurer]. Compare a similar repetition in 1Sa 25:24; Zec 7:5. ceiled--rather…