Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Haggai 1:4 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 4. 4Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
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Quick Meaning
Turns the word 'time' back on the hearers by contrasting their covered houses with the LORD's ruined house.
Read It With
- Haggai 1:1–6
Read Haggai 1:1–6 together. Turns the word 'time' back on the hearers by contrasting their covered houses with the LORD's ruined house. The date, reported delay, house contrast, command to consider, and inventory of futility form the complete opening confrontation.
What Remains True
The oracle exposes a priority disorder by comparing an attended private life with the LORD's ruined public house.
How It Can Shape Life
- Compare stated commitments with actual attention and resources without condemning ordinary care for a home.
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 Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
The adjective may imply finished paneling or richer decoration, but it does not quantify the wealth of every household.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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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 1:1–6, 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
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Haggai with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Material date, Hebrew, translation, textual, ritual, historical, and interpretive notes for the unit, tested rather than adopted automatically.
Exact location: NET Bible Haggai PDF, pp. 1784–1785, translation and notes on 1:1–6
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