21Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;
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Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. …
For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; …
Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem: and with them were the prophets of God helping them.
In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,
Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-23)After Haggai’s sermon ad populum — to the people , here follows one, the same day, ad magistratum — to the magistrates , a word directed particularly to Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah , who was a leading active man in this good work which the people now set about, and therefore he shall have some particular marks put upon him (Hag. 2:21): Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah , speak to him by…
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