Haggai
Old Testament · translated from the Hebrew
After returning from exile, the people fix up their houses and leave the temple in ruins. Haggai calls them to rebuild the house of YHWH and promises that the latter glory of that house will be greater than the former.
How it is laid out
Key verses
- Haggai 1:5 — Set your heart on your ways
- Haggai 2:9 — Greater will be the latter glory of this house than the former
Who wrote it
The messages of Haggai the prophet, dated in the second year of King Darius (1:1). Ezra 5:1 names him together with Zechariah.
When it was written
Around 520 BC, in the second year of King Darius of Persia (1:1).
For whom, and in what situation
For those who returned from exile in Babylon: Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, Joshua the high priest and the remnant of the people (1:1, 12), who lived in paneled houses while the temple lay desolate (1:4).
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