Verse 2

Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, This people say, It is not the time [for us] to come, the time for Jehovah's house to be built.

Referenced Verses

  • Neh 4:10 : 10 And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.
  • Num 13:31 : 31 But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do [it] with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.
  • Song 5:2-3 : 2 I was asleep, but my heart waked: It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, [saying], Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night. 3 I have put off my garment; How shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
  • Eccl 11:4 : 4 He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
  • Ezra 4:23-5:2 : 23 Then when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power. 24 Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem; and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia. 1 Now the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem; in the name of the God of Israel [prophesied they] unto them. 2 Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets of God, helping them.
  • Prov 22:13 : 13 The sluggard saith, There is a lion without: I shall be slain in the streets.
  • Prov 26:13-16 : 13 The sluggard saith, There is a lion in the way; A lion is in the streets. 14 [ As] the door turneth upon its hinges, So doth the sluggard upon his bed. 15 The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish; It wearieth him to bring it again to his mouth. 16 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit Than seven men that can render a reason.
  • Prov 29:25 : 25 The fear of man bringeth a snare; But whoso putteth his trust in Jehovah shall be safe.