Haggai
Two months of blunt encouragement: get up and rebuild the Lord's house.
Overview
Haggai is short and pointed. The exiles have come home but left the temple in ruins while they see to their own houses. In a few dated messages over four months, Haggai rebukes them for their misplaced priorities and rouses them — with Zerubbabel the governor and Joshua the high priest — to finish rebuilding the Lord's house, promising that its "latter glory" will be great.
Book facts
- Author
- HaggaiNamed throughout; a prophet among the returned exiles.
- Date written
- 520 BCPrecisely dated — the second year of King Darius.
- Original language
- HebrewPlain, direct Hebrew prose.
- Setting
- Jerusalem, 520 BCUrging the returned exiles to finish the temple.
How it came to be
Haggai is named throughout, and his messages are precisely dated. He prophesied in 520 BC, the second year of Darius, alongside Zechariah.
His whole message is a single call: finish rebuilding the temple.
The whole book, chapter by chapter
| Chapter | What happens | Who is in it | Where it takes place |
|---|---|---|---|
Rebuild the house — four dated messages, chapters 1–2 | |||
| Chapter 1The unbuilt house | Haggai rebukes the people for leaving the temple in ruins, and they begin to build. | , , | |
| Chapter 2The latter glory | God promises the new temple's glory will surpass the old, and blesses the work. | , | |
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Worth knowing
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The book's best-known lines — tap the verse to read it.
- "Consider your ways"Haggai 1:7
- "Is it time for you to dwell in your ceiled houses?"Haggai 1:4
- "The glory of this latter house"Haggai 2:9