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Connect Your Actions to Your Outcomes
Haggai commands the people to reflect on their recent past. Commentators explain this is a call to connect the dots between their actions and consequences. During the years they neglected the temple, their harvests failed dramatically, yielding as little as half or even two-fifths of what was expected. God wanted them to see the clear, tangible link between their misplaced priorities and their material struggles.
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Haggai
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Albert Barnes
On Haggai 2:15
18th Century
Theologian
And now, I urge you—observe his tenderness in drawing their attention to it: Consider from this day and upward. He asks them to loo…
Charles Ellicott
On Haggai 2:10–19
19th Century
Bishop
The Fourth Utterance.— The recent season of scarcity is again accounted for, and immediate blessings are announced. This address dates abo…
Charles Spurgeon
On Haggai 2:15–17
19th Century
Preacher
How often, in these two chapters, the word "Consider" occurs!
And this subject of the Lord's chastisement was well worthy of his people's ear…
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John Calvin
On Haggai 2:15–19
16th Century
Theologian
I must join all these verses together, for the Prophet treats of the same thing. The meaning of the whole is this: that the Lord had then openly pu…
John Gill
On Haggai 2:15
17th Century
Pastor
And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, &c.] This being their case, and they so polluted with sin, partic…
Matthew Henry
On Haggai 2:10–19
17th Century
Minister
Many corrupted this good work by undertaking it with unholy hearts and hands, and were likely to gain no advantage from it. The sum of these two ru…