--- title: "Haggai 1 - Study King James Bible with barnes notes on the whole bible" description: "Read Haggai 1 with barnes notes on the whole bible commentary. 1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabe" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/barnes-notes-on-the-whole-bible/haggai/1" --- [ Read](/kjv/haggai/1)[ Commentary](/study/haggai/1)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/haggai/1) Audio 1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying, ** 2 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD’s house should be built. 3 Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, 4 *Is it* time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house *lie* waste? 5 Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.* 6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages *to put it* into a bag with holes.* 7 ¶ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.* 8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD. 9 Ye looked for much, and, lo, *it came* to little; and when ye brought *it* home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that *is* waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.* 10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed *from* her fruit. 11 And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon *that* which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands. 12 ¶ Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, 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 did fear before the LORD. 13 Then spake Haggai the LORD’s messenger in the LORD’s message unto the people, saying, I *am* with you, saith the LORD. 14 And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God, 15 In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king. [Zephaniah 3](/study/zephaniah/3) [Haggai 2](/study/haggai/2) ## Commentary To verse 1 **In the second year of Darius -**, i. e., Hystaspis. The very first word of prophecy after the captivity betokens that they were restored, not yet as before, yet so, as to be hereafter, more than before. The earthly type, by God’s appointment, was fading away, that the heavenly truth might dawn. The earthly king was withdrawn, to make way for the heavenly. God had said of Jeconiah [Jeremiah 22:30](/kjv/jeremiah/22/30), “No man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling anymore in Israel:” and so now prophecy begins to be dated by the years of a foreign earthly ruler, as in the Baptism of the Lord Himself [Luke 3:1](/kjv/luke/3/1). Yet God gives back in mercy more than He withdraws in chastisement. The earthly rule is suspended, that people might look out more longingly for the heavenly. **In the sixth month -**They counted by their own months, beginning with Nisan, the first of the ecclesiastical year (which was still used for holy purposes and in sacred history), although, having no more any kings, they dated their years by those of the empire, to which they were subject (See [Zechariah 1:7](/kjv/zechariah/1/7); [Zechariah 7:1](/kjv/zechariah/7/1)) in the sixth month, part of our July and August, their harvest was past, and the dearth, which they, doubtless ascribed (as we do) to the seasons, and which Haggai pointed out to be a judgment from God, had set in for this year also. The months being lunar, the first day of the month was the festival of the new moon, a popular feast [Proverbs 7:20](/kjv/proverbs/7/20) which their forefathers had kept [Isaiah 1:13-14](/kjv/isaiah/1/13-14), while they neglected the weightier matters of the law, and which the religious in Israel had kept, even while separated from the worship at Jerusalem ([2 Kings 4:23](/kjv/2-kings/4/23); add [Amos 8:5](/kjv/amos/8/5); [Hosea 2:11](/kjv/hosea/2/11)). In its very first day, when the grief for the barren year was yet fresh, Haggai was stirred to exhort them to consider their way; a pattern for Christian preachers, to bring home to people’s souls the meaning of God’s judgments. God directs the very day to be noted, in which He called the people anew to build His temple, both to show the readiness of their obedience, and a precedent to us to keep in memory days and seasons, in which He stirs our souls to build more diligently His spiritual temple in our souls . **By the hand of Haggai -**God does almost everything which He does for a person through the hands of people. He commits His words and works for people into the hands of human beings as His stewards, to dispense faithfully to His household. [Luke 12:42](/kjv/luke/12/42). Hence, He speaks so often of the law, which He commanded “by the hand of Moses;” but also as to other prophets, Nathan [2 Samuel 12:25](/kjv/2-samuel/12/25), Ahijal, [1Ki 12:15](/kjv/1ki/12/15); [1 Kings 14:16](/kjv/1-kings/14/16); [2 Chronicles 10:15](/kjv/2-chronicles/10/15). Jehu [1 Kings 16:7](/kjv/1-kings/16/7), Jonah [2 Kings 14:25](/kjv/2-kings/14/25), Isaiah [Isaiah 20:2](/kjv/isaiah/20/2), Jeremiah [Jeremiah 37:2](/kjv/jeremiah/37/2), and the prophets generally. Hos. 7:20; [2 Chronicles 29:25](/kjv/2-chronicles/29/25) the very prophets of God, although gifted with a Divine Spirit, still were willing and conscious instruments in speaking His words. **Unto Zerubbabel -**(so called from being born in Babylon) “the son of Sheatiel.” By this genealogy Zerubbabel is known in the history of the return from the captivity in Ezra and Nehemiah [Ezra 3:2](/kjv/ezra/3/2), [Ezra 3:8](/kjv/ezra/3/8); [Ezra 5:2](/kjv/ezra/5/2); [Nehemiah 12:1](/kjv/nehemiah/12/1). God does not say by Jeremiah, that Jeconiah should have no children, but that he should in his lifetime be childless, as it is said of those married to the uncle’s or brother’s widow [Leviticus 20:20-21](/kjv/leviticus/20/20-21), “they shall die childless.” Jeremiah rather implies that he should have children, but that they should die untimely before him. For he calls Jeconiah [Jeremiah 22:30](/kjv/jeremiah/22/30), “a man who shall not prosper in his days; for there shall not prosper a man of his seed, sitting on the throne of David, and ruling anymore in Israel.” He should die (as the word means) “bared” of all, alone and desolate. The own father of Shealtiel appears to have been Neri [Luke 3:27](/kjv/luke/3/27), of the line of Nathan son of David; not, of the line of the kings of Judah. Neri married, one must suppose, a daughter of Assir, son of Jeconiah [1 Chronicles 3:17-19](/kjv/1-chronicles/3/17-19) whose grandson Shealtiel was; and Zerubbabel was the own son of Pedaiah, the brother of Shealtiel, as whose son he was in the legal genealogy inscribed, according to the law as to those who die childless [Deuteronomy 23:5-10](/kjv/deuteronomy/23/5-10), or as having been adopted by Shealtiel being himself childless, as Moses was called the son of the daughter of Pharaoh [Exodus 2:10](/kjv/exodus/2/10). So broken was the line of the unhappy Jehoiachin, two thirds of whose own life was passed in the prison [Jeremiah 52:31](/kjv/jeremiah/52/31), into which Nebuchadnezzar did cast him. **Governor of Judah -**The foreign name betokens that the civil rule was now held from a foreign power, although Cyrus showed the Jews the kindness of placing one of themselves, of royal extraction also, as his deputy over them. The lineage of David is still in authority, connecting the present with the past, but the earthly kingdom had faded away. Under the name “Sheshbazzar” Zerubbabel is spoken of both as the “prince” and the “governor” [Ezra 5:14](/kjv/ezra/5/14), of Judah. With him is joined “Joshuah the son of Josedech, the high priest,” whose father went into captivity [1 Chronicles 6:15](/kjv/1-chronicles/6/15), when his grandfather Seraiah was slain by Nebuchadnezzar [2 Kings 25:18-21](/kjv/2-kings/25/18-21). The priestly line is also preserved. Haggai addresses these two, the one of the royal, the other of the priestly, line, as jointly responsible for the negligence of the people; he addresses the people only through them. 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