Haggai 2:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.

Haggai 2:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 28:22
The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
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.
Haggai 1:11
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.
1 Kings 8:37
If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
Amos 4:8-11
So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. …

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Chastisement Correction Judgments Mildew Punishment

Commentary

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 employ…

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

(vv. 17)

17. Appropriated from Am 4:9, whose canonicity is thus sealed by Haggai’s inspired authority; in the last clause, “turned,” however, has to be supplied, its omission marking by the elliptical abruptness (“yet ye not to Me!”) God’s displeasure. Compare “(let him come) unto Me!” Moses in excitement omitting the bracketed words (Ex 32:26). “Blasting” results from excessive drought; “mildew, from exce…