Haggai 1:8 “Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house, so that…”

Haggai 1:8

Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified, says the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.

World English Bible

Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,” says the LORD.

American Standard Version

Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith Jehovah.

Geneva Bible 1599

Goe vp to the mountaine, and bring wood, and build this House, and I wil be fauourable in it, and I will be glorified, sayth the Lord.

Darby Translation

Go up to the mountain and bring wood, and build the house, and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation

Go up the mountain, and ye have brought in wood, And build the house, and I am pleased with it. And I am honoured, said Jehovah.

Bible in Basic English

Go up to the hills and get wood and put up the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be honoured, says the Lord.

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Cross references

“to”

2 Chronicles 2:8–10 Ezra 3:7 Ezra 6:4 Zechariah 11:1 Zechariah 11:2

2 Chronicles 2:8–10 · BSB

Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum logs from Lebanon, for I know that your servants have skill to cut timber there. And indeed, my servants will work with yours

Ezra 3:7 · BSB

They gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food and drink and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, as authorized by Cyrus king of Persia.

Ezra 6:4 · BSB

with three layers of cut stones and one of timbers. The costs are to be paid from the royal treasury.

Zechariah 11:1 · BSB

Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume your cedars!

Zechariah 11:2 · BSB

Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen; the majestic trees are ruined! Wail, O oaks of Bashan, for the dense forest has been cut down!

“and build”

Haggai 1:2–4 Jonah 3:1 Jonah 3:2 Matthew 3:8 Matthew 3:9

Haggai 1:2–4 · BSB

that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “These people say, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.’”

Jonah 3:1 · BSB

Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:

Jonah 3:2 · BSB

“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message that I give you.”

Matthew 3:8 · BSB

Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance.

Matthew 3:9 · BSB

And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.

“and I will take”

2 Chronicles 7:16 1 Kings 9:3 Psalm 87:2 Psalm 87:3 Psalm 132:13 Psalm 132:14

2 Chronicles 7:16 · BSB

For I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.

1 Kings 9:3 · BSB

And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.

Psalm 87:2 · BSB

The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

Psalm 87:3 · BSB

Glorious things are ascribed to you, O city of God. Selah

Psalm 132:13 · BSB

For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:

Psalm 132:14 · BSB

“This is My resting place forever and ever; here I will dwell, for I have desired this home.

“I will be”

Haggai 2:7 Exodus 29:43 Isaiah 60:7 Isaiah 60:13 Isaiah 66:11 John 13:31

Haggai 2:7 · BSB

I will shake all the nations, and they will come with all their treasures, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of Hosts.

Exodus 29:43 · BSB

I will also meet with the Israelites there, and that place will be consecrated by My glory.

Isaiah 60:7 · BSB

All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered to you; the rams of Nebaioth will serve you and go up on My altar with acceptance; I will adorn My glorious house.

Isaiah 60:13 · BSB

The glory of Lebanon will come to you— its cypress, elm, and boxwood together— to adorn the place of My sanctuary, and I will glorify the place of My feet.

Isaiah 66:11 · BSB

so that you may nurse and be satisfied at her comforting breasts; you may drink deeply and delight yourselves in her glorious abundance.

John 13:31 · BSB

When Judas had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him.

Also

Haggai 2:9

Haggai 2:9 · BSB

The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former, says the LORD of Hosts. And in this place I will provide peace, declares the LORD of Hosts.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.

9You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.

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