Haggai 1

The First Set of Messages:

Build the Lord 's House

1In the second year of King Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the Lord came through Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, the governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest.[#1:1 520 BC; #1:1 August/September; #1:1 Literally by the hand of]

3So the word of the Lord came through Haggai the prophet.

12Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the surviving remnant of the people, listened to the voice of the Lord their God and to the words of Haggai the prophet, because the Lord their God had sent him. So the people feared the Lord .[#1:12 This is a common name for the people who had returned to Judah from captivity in Babylon.]

13Then Haggai, the Lord 's messenger, spoke the Lord 's message to the people: “I am with you, declares the Lord .”

14The Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the surviving remnant of the people, and they came and worked on the house for the Lord of Armies, their God,

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

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