Verse Lens · Context pointer
Haggai 1:2 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 2. 2Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD’s house should be built.
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Role in This Section
Reports the people's repeated claim that the proper time to rebuild the LORD's house has not arrived.
Read It With
- Haggai 1:1–6
Read Haggai 1:1–6 together. Reports the people's repeated claim that the proper time to rebuild the LORD's house has not arrived. The date, reported delay, house contrast, command to consider, and inventory of futility form the complete opening confrontation.
Why It Needs Context
This verse supplies one part of the opening dispute and needs the timing claim, house contrast, and scarcity inventory to define its role. Specifically, reports the people's repeated claim that the proper time to rebuild the LORD's house has not arrived.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Haggai 1:1–6 — The Dated Word Exposes Neglected Worship and Fruitless LaborSources 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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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing Scripture wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Haggai 1:1–6, 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 1:1–6
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