14Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.
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Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. …
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-19)This sermon was preached two months after that in the former part of the chapter. The priests and Levites preached constantly, but the prophets preached occasionally; both were good and needful. We have need to be taught our duty in season and out of season . The people were now going on vigorously with the building of the temple, and in hopes shortly to have it ready for their use and to be emplo…
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