Verse Lens · Context pointer
Haggai 1:10 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 10. 10Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
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Role in This Section
Draws the stated consequence from verse 9: heaven withholds dew and earth withholds produce.
Read It With
- Haggai 1:7–11
Read Haggai 1:7–11 together. Draws the stated consequence from verse 9: heaven withholds dew and earth withholds produce. The repeated consideration command, three building imperatives, divine purpose, causal answer, and drought belong to one action-and-explanation sequence.
Why It Needs Context
This line depends on the command, purpose, explicit 'Why?' answer, and expanding drought explanation across verses 7–11. Specifically, draws the stated consequence from verse 9: heaven withholds dew and earth withholds produce.
Read Haggai 1:8–11 together
Why these verses belong together: The command and its divine purpose are followed by the explicit cause and full scope of the drought.
Verse 8. 8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.
Verse 9. 9 Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
Verse 10. 10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
Verse 11. 11 And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read Haggai 1:7–11 — The LORD Commands Rebuilding and Explains the DroughtSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact reader-facing Scripture wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Haggai 1:7–11, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Haggai
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew clauses, verbal forms, divine titles, repeated words, and the base text behind lexical and translation analysis.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2 (commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00), wlc/Hag.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 1:7–11
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