Haggai 1:9

Haggai · Old Testament · Chapter 1

“Ye looked for much, and lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.”Haggai 1:9

What Does Haggai 1:9 Mean?

Haggai 1:9 is found in the book of Haggai, chapter 1, verse 9 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.

Cross-References (20)

These passages are connected to Haggai 1:9 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.

Deuteronomy 16:16“Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:”Haggai 1:6“Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.”Proverbs 11:24“There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.”Haggai 1:4“Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?”Haggai 2:17“I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.”Deuteronomy 11:17“And then the LORD’s wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.”Psalms 132:15“I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.”Ezekiel 21:31“And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.”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 pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.”Malachi 2:2“If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.”Revelation 3:19“As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.”Leviticus 19:25“And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am the LORD your God.”Deuteronomy 28:16“Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.”1 Chronicles 17:1“Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains.”Ezra 9:9“For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.”Psalms 77:5“I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.”Ecclesiastes 5:14“But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.”Isaiah 5:10“Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.”Isaiah 40:7“The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.”Isaiah 40:24“Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.”

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