 | David Norton - 2000 - 526 sidor
...sometimes accuracy triumphs only to produce 'a stubborn, pedantic fidelity to the Hebrew idiom', as in, 'is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses' (Hag. i: 4; p. 232). But what is perhaps most interesting is the number of instances he gives of the... | |
 | Matthew Henry - 2001 - 128 sidor
..."at a more convenient season you will send for them." You are ready to say, as the people did, "The time is not come, the time that the Lord's house should be built:" you think you must build your own first; and what comes of those delays? Satan, ere you are aware,... | |
 | John Phillips - 2001 - 260 sidor
...attitude toward prophecy on the part of the people was partly responsible for the national lethargy. "The time is not come, the time that the Lord's house should be built," was their excuse (1:2). This fatalistic attitude toward the work of God has its counterpart in the... | |
 | John Phillips - 2002 - 366 sidor
...improvements, they began to build elaborate, wainscoted, ornately decorated houses while they said, "The time is not come, the time that the Lord's house should be built." With more than a touch of sarcasm Haggai turned their own argument against them and said in effect,... | |
 | James Shane - 2002 - 710 sidor
...Josedech, the high priest, saying, 2 Thus speoketh 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... | |
 | T. W. Crafer - 2011 - 144 sidor
...they were too busy in the fields outside Jerusalem, for us to come, the time for the LORD'S house to be built. Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, 3 saying, Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your 4 cieled houses, while this house lieth... | |
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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. 
