Haggai 2:15 “Now consider carefully from this day forward: Before one stone was pla…”

Haggai 2:15

Now consider carefully from this day forward: Before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the LORD,

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James 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:

World English Bible

Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in the LORD’s temple.

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Then answered Haggai, and sayd, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the Lord: and so are all the workes of their hands, and that which they offer here, is vncleane.

Darby 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.

Bible in Basic English

And now, give thought, looking back from this day to the time before one stone was put on another in the Temple of the Lord:

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Cross references

“consider”

Haggai 1:5 Haggai 2:18 Haggai 1:7 Psalm 107:43 Isaiah 5:12 Hosea 14:9

Haggai 1:5 · BSB

Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.

Haggai 2:18 · BSB

Consider carefully from this day forward—from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the day the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid—consider carefully:

Haggai 1:7 · BSB

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

Psalm 107:43 · BSB

Let him who is wise pay heed to these things and consider the loving devotion of the LORD.

Isaiah 5:12 · BSB

At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.

Hosea 14:9 · BSB

Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, and the righteous walk in them but the rebellious stumble in them.

“from before”

Ezra 3:10 Ezra 4:24

Ezra 3:10 · BSB

When the builders had laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with cymbals, took their positions to praise the LORD, as David king of…

Ezra 4:24 · BSB

Thus the construction of the house of God in Jerusalem ceased, and it remained at a standstill until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

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

In context

14Then Haggai replied, “So it is with this people and this nation before Me, declares the LORD, and so it is with every work of their hands; whatever they offer there is defiled.

16from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.

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