The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

  • Christian Chat is a moderated online Christian community allowing Christians around the world to fellowship with each other in real time chat via webcam, voice, and text, with the Christian Chat app. You can also start or participate in a Bible-based discussion here in the Christian Chat Forums, where members can also share with each other their own videos, pictures, or favorite Christian music.

    If you are a Christian and need encouragement and fellowship, we're here for you! If you are not a Christian but interested in knowing more about Jesus our Lord, you're also welcome! Want to know what the Bible says, and how you can apply it to your life? Join us!

    To make new Christian friends now around the world, click here to join Christian Chat.
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,801
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,801
Haggai 1:5 (NIV)

Now this is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Give careful thought to your ways.
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,802
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,802
Haggai 1:6 (NIV)

You have planted much, but harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill.
You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.’
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,803
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,803
Haggai 1:7 (NIV)

7 This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Give careful thought to your ways.
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,804
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,804
Haggai 1:8 (NIV)

8 Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build my house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honoured,’
says the Lord.
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,805
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,805
Haggai 1:9 (NIV)

9 ‘You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?’ declares the Lord Almighty. ‘Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house.
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,806
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,806
Haggai 1:10 (NIV)

10 Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops.
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,807
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,807
Haggai 1:11 (NIV)

11 I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil and everything else the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labour of your hands.’
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,808
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,808
Haggai 1:12 (NIV)

12 Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest, and the whole remnant of the people obeyed the voice of the Lord their God and the message of the prophet Haggai, because the Lord their God had sent him. And the people feared the Lord.
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,809
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,809
Haggai 1:13 (NIV)

13 Then Haggai, the Lord’s messenger, gave this message of the Lord to the people: ‘I am with you,’ declares the Lord.
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,810
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,810
Haggai 1:14 (NIV)

14 So the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of the whole remnant of the people. They came and began to work on the house of the Lord Almighty, their God,
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,811
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,811
Haggai 1:15 (NIV)

15 on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month. In the second year of King Darius,
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,812
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,812
Haggai 2:1 (CSB)

On the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the word of the Lord came through the prophet Haggai:
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,813
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,813
Haggai 2:2 (CSB)

2 “Speak to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, to the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak, and to the remnant of the people:
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,814
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,814
Haggai 2:3 (CSB)

3 ‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to you now? Doesn’t it seem to you like nothing
by comparison?
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,815
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,815
Haggai 2:4 (CSB)

4 Even so, be strong, Zerubbabel—this is the Lord’s declaration. Be strong, Joshua son of Jehozadak, high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land—this is the Lord’s declaration. Work! For I am with you—the declaration of the Lord of Armies.
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,816
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,816
Haggai 2:5 (CSB)

5 This is the promise I made to you when you came out of Egypt, and my Spirit is present among you; don’t be afraid.’”
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,817
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,817
Haggai 2:6 (CSB)

6 For the Lord of Armies says this: “Once more, in a little while, I am going to shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land.
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,818
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,818
Haggai 2:7 (CSB)

7 I will shake all the nations so that the treasures of all the nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,”
says the Lord of Armies.
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,819
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,819
Haggai 2:8 (CSB)

8 “The silver and gold belong to me”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies.
 
Lucy-Pevensie

Lucy-Pevensie

Senior Member
#18,820
Dec 20, 2017
9,386
5,725
113
#18,820
Haggai 2:9 (CSB)

9 “The final glory of this house will be greater than the first,” says the Lord of Armies. “I will provide peace in this place”—
this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.