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Haggai 2:16 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 16. 16Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
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Role in This Section
Measures the earlier shortage with concrete grain and wine expectations that yielded only half or less.
Read It With
- Haggai 2:15–19
Read Haggai 2:15–19 together. Measures the earlier shortage with concrete grain and wine expectations that yielded only half or less. Repeated consideration frames measured shortages, divine discipline, the foundation date, present non-yield, and promised blessing.
Why It Needs Context
This temporal or agricultural detail depends on the full before-today-from-today comparison and should not become an isolated prosperity or blame statement. Specifically, measures the earlier shortage with concrete grain and wine expectations that yielded only half or less.
Read Haggai 2:15–19 together
Why these verses belong together: The retrospective command, measured shortages, divine blows, repeated date, absent yield, and future blessing form one temporal comparison.
Verse 15. 15 And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:
Verse 16. 16 Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
Verse 17. 17 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.
Verse 18. 18 Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid, consider it.
Verse 19. 19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.
Continue in Context
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Read Haggai 2:15–19 — Consider the Failed Harvests and Mark the Promise of BlessingSources 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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Exact location: Haggai 2:15–19, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Haggai
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Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2 (commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00), wlc/Hag.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 2:15–19
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