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Haggai 2:3

Haggai 2:3
Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing?

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory?.... Not taken away by death, yet alive, and dwelling among them; and who lived before the destruction of the first temple, built by…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Who is left among you? - The question implies that there were those among them, who had seen the first house in its glory, yet but few. When the foundations of the first temple were laid, there were…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? - Who of you has seen the temple built by Solomon? The foundation of the present house had been laid about fifty-three years after the…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Haggai 2:1-9

Here is, I. The date of this message, Hag 2:1. It was sent on the twenty-first day of the seventh month, when the builders had been about a month at work (since the twenty-fourth day of the sixth…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Who is left among you?&c. When the foundations of this Temple were laid in the second year of Cyrus there were many such. Now after sixteen more years, when seventy years had elapsed since the…

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