Haggai 2:18

"I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn’t turn to me,’ says the LORD."

Key Reflection

In Haggai 2:18, God recounts his judgments—blight, mildew, and hail affecting their crops—as a form of discipline intended to draw the people back to Him. However, they continued in their rebellion, failing to seek Him despite these clear signs of divine displeasure.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

From the day that the foundation of the Lord’s house -Zechariah, in a passage corresponding to this, uses the same wordsZechariah 8:9, “the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built,” not of the first foundation, but of the work as resumed in obedience to the words by “the mouth of the prophets,” Haggai and himself, which, Ezra also says, wasEzra 4:24;Ezra 5:1. “in the second year of Darius.” But that work was resumed, not now at the time of this prophecy, but three months before, on the 24th of the sixth month.

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