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Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified," says Yahweh.
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Start with What You Have
God's command was not to find expensive, imported materials, but to use the wood from the local mountains. Commentators explain that God values obedience and heartfelt labor with available resources more than waiting for perfect, extravagant conditions. This encourages believers to serve God now, with what they have, rather than procrastinating.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Go up into the mountain—Not Mount Lebanon, from where the cedars had been brought for the first temple; from where also Zerubbabel and Joshu…
19th Century
Anglican
The mountain. —No one mountain is thought of. The term implies the high lands generally, as growing the most suitable tim…
Baptist
Thus says the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, an…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Go up to the mountain Or, "that mountain" F21 ; pointing either to Lebanon, to cut down cedars, and bring them from…
Observe the sin of the Jews, after their return from captivity in Babylon. Those employed for God may be driven from their work by a storm, yet the…
