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Haggai 2:10 (CSB)

10 On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Haggai:
 

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Haggai 2:11 (CSB)

11 “This is what the Lord of Armies says: Ask the priests for a ruling.
 

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Haggai 2:12 (CSB)

12 If a man is carrying consecrated meat in the fold of his garment, and it touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any other food,
does it become holy?”

The priests answered, “No.”
 

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Haggai 2:13 (CSB)

13 Then Haggai asked, “If someone defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of these, does it become defiled?”

The priests answered, “It becomes defiled.”
 

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Haggai 2:14 (CSB)

14 Then Haggai replied, “So is this people, and so is this nation before me—this is the Lord’s declaration.
And so is every work of their hands; even what they offer there is defiled.
 

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Haggai 2:15 (CSB)

15 “Now from this day on, think carefully: Before one stone was placed on another in the Lord’s temple,
 

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Haggai 2:16 (CSB)

16 what state were you in? When someone came to a grain heap of twenty measures, it only amounted to ten;
when one came to the winepress to dip fifty measures from the vat, it only amounted to twenty.
 

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Haggai 2:17 (CSB)

17 I struck you—all the work of your hands—with blight, mildew, and hail, but you didn’t turn to me—this is the Lord’s declaration.
 

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Haggai 2:18 (CSB)

18 From this day on, think carefully; from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid; think carefully.
 

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Haggai 2:19 (CSB)

19 Is there still seed left in the granary? The vine, the fig, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yet produced.
But from this day on I will bless you.”
 

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Haggai 2:20 (CSB)

20 The word of the Lord came to Haggai a second time on the twenty-fourth day of the month:
 

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Haggai 2:21 (CSB)

21 “Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah: I am going to shake the heavens and the earth.
 

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Haggai 2:22 (CSB)

22 I will overturn royal thrones and destroy the power of the Gentile kingdoms. I will overturn chariots and their riders.
Horses and their riders will fall, each by his brother’s sword.
 

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Haggai 2:23 (CSB)

23 On that day”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies—“I will take you, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, my servant”—
this is the Lord’s declaration—“and make you like my signet ring, for I have chosen you.”

This is the declaration of the Lord of Armies.
 

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Zechariah 1 (WEB)

In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, Yahweh’s word came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah,
the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,
 

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Zechariah 1:3 (WEB)

Therefore tell them: Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
 

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Zechariah 1:4 (WEB)

Don’t you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Yahweh of Armies says, ‘Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;’ but they didn’t hear, nor listen to me, says Yahweh.
 

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Zechariah 1:5 (WEB)

Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
 

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Zechariah 1:6 (WEB)

6 But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers?

“Then they repented and said, ‘Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices,
so he has dealt with us.’”