Haggai 1:14 - Prayer Tents

The Command to Build God’s House

1In the second year of King Darius, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,H8147H8141H1867H4428H8345H2320H259H3117H2320H1697H3068H3027H2292H5030H2216H1121H7597H6346H3063H3091H1121H3087H1419H3548H559 2"Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, saying: 'This people says, "The time has not come, the time that the LORD'S house should be built."'"H559H3068H6635H559H5971H559H6256H935H6256H3068H1004H1129 3Then the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet, saying,H1697H3068H3027H2292H5030H559 4"Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, and this temple to lie in ruins?"H6256H3427H5603H1004H1004H2720 5Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: "Consider your ways!H559H3068H6635H7760H3824H1870 6"You have sown much, and bring in little; You eat, but do not have enough; You drink, but you are not filled with drink; You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; And he who earns wages, Earns wages to put into a bag with holes."H2232H7235H935H4592H398H7654H8354H7937H3847H2527H7936H7936H6872H5344 7Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Consider your ways!H559H3068H6635H7760H3824H1870 8"Go up to the mountains and bring wood and build the temple, that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified," says the LORD.H5927H2022H935H6086H1129H1004H7521H3513H559H3068 9"You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?" says the LORD of hosts. "Because of My house that is in ruins, while every one of you runs to his own house.H6437H7235H4592H935H1004H5301H5002H3068H6635H3282H1004H2720H7323H376H1004 10"Therefore the heavens above you withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.H8064H3607H2919H776H3607H2981 11"For I called for a drought on the land and the mountains, on the grain and the new wine and the oil, on whatever the ground brings forth, on men and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands."H7121H2721H776H2022H1715H8492H3323H127H3318H120H929H3018H3709

The People’s Obedience

12Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him; and the people feared the presence of the LORD.H2216H1121H7597H3091H1121H3087H1419H3548H7611H5971H8085H6963H3068H430H1697H2292H5030H3068H430H7971H5971H3372H6440H3068 13Then Haggai, the LORD'S messenger, spoke the LORD'S message to the people, saying, "I am with you, says the LORD."H559H2292H3068H4397H3068H4400H5971H559H5002H3068 14So the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,H3068H5782H7307H2216H1121H7597H6346H3063H7307H3091H1121H3087H1419H3548H7307H7611H5971H935H6213H4399H1004H3068H6635H430 15on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius.H702H6242H3117H8345H2320H8147H8141H1867H4428