Let your hands be strong - The fulfillment of God’s former promises is the guarantee of future ones; His past providences are a token of tho…

Prophets. —It would almost seem that there were other prophets who spoke at the time besides Haggai and Zechariah.

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Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the month of the prophets, which were in the …

The Prophet, having taught us that God was reconciled to His people, now seasonably exhorts the Jews to prepare themselves for work and to exert th…

Thus says the Lord of hosts, Let your hands be strong ,
&c.] In going on with the building of the temple, which was …

Only those who lay their hands to the plough of duty will have them strengthened with the promises of mercy: those who avoid their fathers' faults …