Haggai 1:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

Haggai 1:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lamentations 3:40
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
2 Corinthians 13:5
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
Haggai 2:15-18
And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD: …
Haggai 1:7
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
Luke 15:17
And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

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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. 5)

5. Consider your ways--literally, “Set your heart” on your ways. The plural implies, Consider both what ye have done (actively, La 3:40) and what ye have suffered (passively) [Jerome]. Ponder earnestly whether ye have gained by seeking self at the sacrifice of God.