Haggai 2:15
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New International Version (©2011)
"'Now give careful thought to this from this day on --consider how things were before one stone was laid on another in the LORD's temple.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Look at what was happening to you before you began to lay the foundation of the LORD's Temple.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Now then, consider from this day onward. Before stone was placed upon stone in the temple of the LORD,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'But now, do consider from this day onward: before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the LORD,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Now, reflect back from this day: Before one stone was placed on another in the LORD's temple,

International Standard Version (©2012)
Pay attention from now on to how things used to be before one stone had been laid upon another in the Temple of the LORD.

NET Bible (©2006)
Now therefore reflect carefully on the recent past, before one stone was laid on another in the LORD's temple.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"And from now on, carefully consider this. Consider how things were before one stone was laid on another in the temple of the LORD.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And now, I pray you, consider from this day onward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:

American King James Version
And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid on a stone in the temple of the LORD:

American Standard Version
And now, I pray you, consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of Jehovah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And now consider in your hearts, from this day and upward, before there was a stone laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord.

Darby Bible Translation
And now, I pray you, consider from this day and onward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of Jehovah,

English Revised Version
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:

Webster's Bible Translation
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:

World English Bible
Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in the temple of Yahweh.

Young's Literal Translation
And now, lay it, I pray you, to your heart, From this day, and onwards, Before the laying of stone to stone in the temple of Jehovah.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

2:10-19 Many spoiled this good work, by going about it with unholy hearts and hands, and were likely to gain no advantage by it. The sum of these two rules of the law is, that sin is more easily learned from others than holiness. The impurity of their hearts and lives shall make the work of their hands, and all their offerings, unclean before God. The case is the same with us. When employed in any good work, we should watch over ourselves, lest we render it unclean by our corruptions. When we begin to make conscience of duty to God, we may expect his blessing; and whoso is wise will understand the loving-kindness of the Lord. God will curse the blessings of the wicked, and make bitter the prosperity of the careless; but he will sweeten the cup of affliction to those who diligently serve him.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 15 - The prophet bids the people look backwards, and consider how their neglect had been visited by scanty harvests; their own experience would teach them this lesson. From this day; viz. the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, when this address was delivered (ver. 10; comp. ver. 18). And upward; i.e. backward. He bids them go back in thought fourteen years when they first intermitted building. Before a stone, etc. This does not mean before the building was first begun, but before they began to build on the foundation already laid.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward,.... This being their case, and they so polluted with sin, particularly through their neglect of building the temple; they are most earnestly and importunately entreated to "lay" it "to their hearts", to ponder it in their minds, and thoroughly consider how it had fared with them from this twenty fourth day of the ninth month, in which the prophet was sent unto them to encourage them in their work, and upwards or backwards, for some years past: even

from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord: the foundation of the temple was laid quickly after the Jews returned from Babylon, upon the proclamation of Cyrus, Ezra 3:10 but, through difficulties and discouragements they met with, they desisted from the work, and went no further; a stone was not laid upon it; or, as the Targum, a row, or course upon course, until this time: and now all the intermediate space of time between the first laying the foundation of the temple, and their present going to work upon it, the prophet would have them take particular notice of; how it had been with them, as to their outward circumstances; whereby it would appear, they had sinned, and the Lord had been offended with them.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

15. consider—literally, "lay it to heart." Ponder earnestly, retracing the past "upward" (that is, backward), comparing what evils heretofore befell you before ye set about this work, with the present time when you have again commenced it, and when in consequence I now engage to "bless you." Hence ye may perceive the evils of disobedience and the blessing of obedience.

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Blessings for a Defiled People
…14Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, said the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean. 15And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid on a stone in the temple of the LORD: 16Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the fat press for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty. …

Ezra 3:10 When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their vestments and with trumpets, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with cymbals, took their places to praise the LORD, as prescribed by David king of Israel.
Ezra 4:24 Thus the work on the house of God in Jerusalem came to a standstill until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
Haggai 1:5 Now this is what the LORD Almighty says: "Give careful thought to your ways.
Haggai 1:7 This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Give careful thought to your ways.
Haggai 2:16 When anyone came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When anyone went to a wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were only twenty.
Haggai 2:18 From this day on, from this twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, give careful thought to the day when the foundation of the LORD's temple was laid. Give careful thought:
Zechariah 8:10 Before that time there were no wages for people or hire for animals. No one could go about their business safely because of their enemies, since I had turned everyone against their neighbor.