Haggai 2:15 "'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.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
"'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.

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

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

King James Bible
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
Now, reflect back from this day: Before one stone was placed on another in the LORD's temple,

International Standard Version
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.

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,

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.

Cross References

Ezra 3:10
And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.

Ezra 4:24
Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased to the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Haggai 1:5
Now therefore thus said the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

Haggai 1:7
Thus said the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

Haggai 2:16
Since 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.

Haggai 2:18
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.

Zechariah 8:10
For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbor.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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.