Haggai Chapter 2 verse 20 Holy Bible
And the word of Jehovah came the second time unto Haggai in the four and twentieth `day' of the month, saying,
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And the word of the Lord came a second time to Haggai, on the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying,
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And the word of Jehovah came the second time unto Haggai on the four and twentieth [day] of the month, saying,
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And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,
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The Word of Yahweh came the second time to Haggai in the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying,
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And there is a word of Jehovah a second time unto Haggai, on the twenty and fourth of the month, saying:
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 20-23. - Part V. THE FOURTH ADDRESS: PROMISE OF THE RESTORATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID, WHEN THE STORM BURSTS ON THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD. Verse 20. - Temporal blessings had been promised to the people generally; now spiritual blessings are announced to Zerubbabel as the head of the nation and the representative of the house of David. And again; and a second time; ἐκ δευτέρου (Septuagint). This revelation took place on the same day as the preceding one.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20-23) The Fifth Utterance.--The promise of Haggai 2:6-9 is enlarged. The heathen powers shall be consumed one of another, but the line of Zerubbabel shall stand secure, and be a witness to Jehovah's faithfulness. Here, as in Haggai 2:6-9, the only satisfactory interpretation is that Haggai was charged with a prediction--purposely vague and indistinct in character--of the extension of God's kingdom by the Christian dispensation. "Zerubbabel," the descendant of David, includes in himself Him who was according to the flesh his lineal descendant. Just in the same way in older prophecy "David" is himself identified with that Messiah in whom the glories of the Davidic house were to culminate. (See Psalm 89:19, and comp. Jennings and Lowe, Commentary, Introd. to Psalms 89) It appears as unnecessary to find a literal fulfilment of the prediction of the overthrow of the world-powers, "every one by the sword of his brother," as of the utterance (repeated from Haggai 2:6), "I will shake the heavens and the earth." It is true that the empires of Babylon, Persia, Syria, and Greece each in its turn declined and passed away. But in the Roman Empire the world-power was as strongly represented as ever, when Christ came on earth. It was to succumb later on to moral, not to material force. Nothing, in fact, can be extracted from these passages beyond a dim presage of the heathen kingdoms being pervaded by the moral influence of the Christian Church.
