--- title: "Haggai 1 - Study King James Bible with commentary critical and explanatory on the whole bible" description: "Read Haggai 1 with commentary critical and explanatory 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/commentary-critical-and-explanatory-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 **1. second year of Darius**—Hystaspes, the king of Medo-Persia, the second of the world empires, Babylon having been overthrown by the Persian Cyrus. The Jews having no king of their own, dated by the reign of the world kings to whom they were subject. Darius was a common name of the Persian kings, as Pharaoh of those of Egypt, and Cæsar of those of Rome. The name in the cuneiform inscriptions at Persepolis is written *Daryawus,* from the root *Darh,* "to preserve," the *Conservator* [LASSEN]. HERODOTUS [6.98] explains it *Coercer.* Often opposite attributes are assigned to the same god; in which light the Persians viewed their king. [Ezra 4:24](/kjv/ezra/4/24) harmonizes with Haggai in making this year the date of the resumption of the building. **sixth month**—of the Hebrew year, not of Darius' reign (compare [Zechariah 1:7](/kjv/zechariah/1/7); [Zechariah 7:1](/kjv/zechariah/7/1); [Zechariah 7:3](/kjv/zechariah/7/3); [Zechariah 8:19](/kjv/zechariah/8/19)). Two months later ("the eighth month," [Zechariah 1:1](/kjv/zechariah/1/1)) Zechariah began to prophesy, seconding Haggai. **the Lord**—*Hebrew,* JEHOVAH: God's covenant title, implying His unchangeableness, the guarantee of His faithfulness in keeping His promises to His people. **by Haggai**—*Hebrew,* "in the hand of Haggai"; God being the real speaker, His prophet but the instrument (compare [Acts 7:35](/kjv/acts/7/35); [Galatians 3:19](/kjv/galatians/3/19)). **Zerubbabel**—called also Shesh-bazzar in [Ezra 1:8](/kjv/ezra/1/8); [Ezra 5:14](/kjv/ezra/5/14); [Ezra 5:16](/kjv/ezra/5/16), where the same work is attributed to Shesh-bazzar that in [Ezra 5:16](/kjv/ezra/5/16)- : is attributed to Zerubbabel. Shesh-bazzar is probably his *Chaldean* name; as Belteshazzar was that of Daniel. Zerubbabel, his *Hebrew* name, means "one born in Babylon." **son of Shealtiel**—or Salathiel. But [1 Chronicles 3:17](/kjv/1-chronicles/3/17); [1 Chronicles 3:19](/kjv/1-chronicles/3/19) makes Pedaiah his father. Probably he was adopted by his *uncle* Salathiel, or Shealtiel, at the death of his father (compare [Matthew 1:12](/kjv/matthew/1/12); [Luke 3:27](/kjv/luke/3/27)). **governor of Judah**—to which office Cyrus had appointed him. The *Hebrew Pechah* is akin to the original of the modern Turkish *Pasha;* one ruling a region of the Persian empire of less extent than that under a satrap. **Joshua**—called Jeshua ([Ezra 2:2](/kjv/ezra/2/2)); so the son of Nun in [Nehemiah 8:17](/kjv/nehemiah/8/17). **Josedech**—or Jehozadak ([1 Chronicles 6:15](/kjv/1-chronicles/6/15)), one of those carried captive by Nebuchadnezzar. 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