Haggai 1:4

"“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?"

Key Reflection

This verse challenges the people to consider their priorities during times of prosperity when the temple remains unfinished. It suggests that true devotion requires dedication to God’s work and his house, rather than personal comfort or neglecting spiritual responsibilities.

From the Scholars: 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 . But where then was the excuse of want of means? They imitated, in their alleged poverty, what is spoken of as magnificent in their old kings, Solomon and Shallum, but not having, as Solomon first did (1 Kings 6:9,ויספן), “covered the house of God with beams and rows of cedar” .

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