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Haggai 1:4

Haggai 1:4
Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your panelled houses,.... They could not only find time, leisure, and convenience to build houses to dwell in; but to wainscot them, and line them with boards of…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Is it time for you - You, being what you are, the creatures of God, “to dwell in your ceiled houses,” more emphatically, in your houses, and those “ceiled,” probably with costly woods, such as cedar .…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Is it time for you - If the time be not come to rebuild the temple, it cannot be come for you to build yourselves comfortable houses: but ye are rebuilding your houses; why then do ye not rebuild the…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Haggai 1:1-11

It was the complaint of the Jews in Babylon that they saw not their signs, and there was no more prophet (Psa 74:9), which was a just judgment upon them for mocking and misusing the prophets. We read…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

for you, O ye Lit., for you, you: you, yourselves, R. V. The repetition of the pronoun is emphatic, "you are the people I mean;" or you in implied contrast to Almighty God, comp. 1Sa 25:24, where…