‘Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid, consider it.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Haggai 2:18 in context
Haggai 2:15–21
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Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in the LORD’s temple.
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Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.
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I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn’t turn to me,’ says the LORD.
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‘Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid, consider it.
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Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven’t produced. From today I will bless you.’”
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The LORD’s word came the second time to Haggai in the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying,
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“Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, ‘I will shake the heavens and the earth.
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