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King James Version

Haggai 2:21

Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Government;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Zerubbabel or Zorobabel;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Branch;   Prophecy, prophet;   Zechariah, book of;   Zerubbabel;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Messiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Haggai;   Zechariah, the Book of;   Zerubbabel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Haggai;   Israel, History of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Guilt;   Haggai;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Haggai ;   Zerubbabel ;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Desire of All Nations;   Governor;   Haggai;   Joshua (3);   Sanabassar;   Sheshbazzar;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Day of the Lord;   Pseudo-Messiahs;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
"Go to Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah and tell him that I will shake heaven and earth.
New American Standard Bible
"Speak to Zerubbabel governor of Judah, saying, 'I am going to shake the heavens and the earth.
New Century Version
"Tell Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah, ‘I am going to shake the heavens and the earth.
Update Bible Version
Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;
Webster's Bible Translation
Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;
Amplified Bible
"Speak to Zerubbabel governor of Judah, saying, 'I am going to shake the heavens and the earth.
English Standard Version
"Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I am about to shake the heavens and the earth,
World English Bible
"Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, 'I will shake the heavens and the earth.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and seide, Spek thou to Sorobabel, duik of Juda, and seie thou, Y shal moue heuene and erthe togidere, and Y schal distrie the seet of rewmes,
English Revised Version
Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth:
Berean Standard Bible
"Tell Zerubbabel governor of Judah that I am about to shake the heavens and the earth:
Contemporary English Version
Tell Governor Zerubbabel of Judah that I am going to shake the heavens and the earth
American Standard Version
Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;
Bible in Basic English
Say to Zerubbabel, ruler of Judah, I will make a shaking of the heavens and the earth,
Complete Jewish Bible
"Tell Z'rubavel, governor of Y'hudah, ‘I will shake the heavens and the earth,
Darby Translation
Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying: I will shake the heavens and the earth;
King James Version (1611)
Speake to Zerubbabel gouernor of Iudah, saying, I wil shake the heauens and the earth.
New Living Translation
"Tell Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah, that I am about to shake the heavens and the earth.
New Life Bible
"Tell Zerubbabel, ruler of Judah, ‘I am going to shake the heavens and the earth.
New Revised Standard
Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I am about to shake the heavens and the earth,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Speake to Zerubbabel the prince of Iudah, and say, I wil shake the heauens and the earth,
George Lamsa Translation
Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Speak thou unto Zerubbabel, pasha of Judah, saying, - I am shaking, the heavens and the earth;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(2-22) Speak to Zorobabel the governor of Juda, saying: I will move both heaven and earth.
Revised Standard Version
"Speak to Zerub'babel, governor of Judah, saying, I am about to shake the heavens and the earth,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Speake to Zorobabel the prince of Iuda, and say, I will shake the heauens and the earth:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the word of the Lord came the second time to Aggaeus the prophet, on the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,
Good News Translation
for Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah: "I am about to shake heaven and earth
Christian Standard Bible®
“Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah: I am going to shake the heavens and the earth.
Hebrew Names Version
"Speak to Zerubbavel, governor of Yehudah, saying, 'I will shake the heavens and the eretz.
Lexham English Bible
"Say to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah: I am going to shake the heavens and the earth,
Literal Translation
Speak to Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth.
Young's Literal Translation
`Speak unto Zerubbabel governor of Judah, saying: I am shaking the heavens and the earth,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Speake to Zorobabel the prynce of Iuda, and saye: I will shake both heauen and earth,
New English Translation
Tell Zerubbabel governor of Judah: ‘I am ready to shake the sky and the earth.
New King James Version
"Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying: "I will shake heaven and earth.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Speak to Zerubbabel governor of Judah, saying, 'I am going to shake the heavens and the earth.
Legacy Standard Bible
"Speak to Zerubbabel governor of Judah, saying, ‘I am going to shake the heavens and the earth.

Contextual Overview

20 And again the word of the Lord came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying, 21 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth; 22 And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother. 23 In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the Lord , and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord of hosts.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Zerubbabel: Haggai 1:1, Haggai 1:14, 1 Chronicles 3:19, Ezra 2:2, Ezra 5:2, Zechariah 4:6-10

I will: Haggai 2:6, Haggai 2:7, Psalms 46:6, Ezekiel 26:15, Ezekiel 38:19, Ezekiel 38:20, Joel 3:16, Hebrews 12:26, Hebrews 12:27, Revelation 16:17-19

Reciprocal: Ezra 3:2 - Zerubbabel Ezra 5:14 - whom Nehemiah 12:1 - Zerubbabel Job 9:6 - shaketh Job 26:11 - pillars Psalms 29:8 - shaketh Isaiah 2:19 - when he Isaiah 13:13 - I will Isaiah 24:21 - the Lord Ezekiel 21:27 - General Zechariah 4:7 - O great Zechariah 8:9 - the prophets Zechariah 14:3 - General Matthew 24:7 - nation shall Luke 21:10 - Nation shall Revelation 6:12 - the sun

Cross-References

Genesis 15:12
And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
1 Samuel 26:12
So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the Lord was fallen upon them.
Job 4:13
In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
Job 33:15
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
Proverbs 19:15
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Daniel 8:18
Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah,.... The former discourse or prophecy chiefly related to the people, for their encouragement in building; this is directed to the prince over them, to support him under all the changes and revolutions made in the world; that he should be regarded by the Lord in a very tender manner, and his government continued, as a type of Christ and his kingdom:

saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth; make great commotions, changes, and revolutions in the world, by wars, and otherwise: the Persian kingdom being subdued by the Grecian; the Grecian by the Romans; the Roman empire by the Goths and Vandals; and the antichristian states, both Papal and Mahometan, by the vials of God's wrath poured out upon them, by means of Christian princes: such revolutions are often designed by the shaking of the heavens, especially by earthquakes in the book of the Revelation; see Revelation 6:14.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will shake - Haggai closes by resuming the words of a former prophecy to Zerubbabel and Joshua, which ended in the coming of Christ. Even thus it is plain, that the prophecy does not belong personally to Zerubbabel, but to him and his descendants, chiefly to Christ. There was in Zerubbabel’s time no shaking of the heaven or of nations. Darius had indeed to put down an unusual number of rebellions in the first few years after his accession; but, although he magnified himself on occasion of their suppression, they were only so many distinct and unconcerted revolts, each under its own head. All were far away in the distant East, in Babylonia, Susiana, Media, Armenia, Assyria, Hyrcania, Parthia, Sagartia, Margiana, Arachosia. The Persian empire, spread “probably over 2,000,000 square miles, or more than half of modern Europe,” was not threatened; no foreign enemy assailed it; one impostor only claimed the throne of Darius. This would, if successful, have been, like his own accession, a change of dynasty, affecting nothing externally.

But neither were lasting, some were very trifling. Two decisive battles subdued Babylonia: of Media the brief summary is given “the Medes revolted from Darius, and having revolted were brought back into subjection, defeated in battle.” The Susianians killed their own pretender, on the approach of the troops of Darius. We have indeed mostly the account only of the victor. But these are only self-glorying records of victories, accomplished in succession, within a few years. Sometimes the satrap of the province put the revolt down at once. At most two battles ended in the crucifixion of the rebel. The Jews, if they heard of them, knew them to be of no account. For the destroyer of the Persian empire was to come from the West Daniel 8:5, the fourth sovereign was to stir up all against the realm of Grecia Daniel 11:2, and Darius was but the third. In the same second year of Darius, in which Haggai gave this prophecy, the whole earth was exhibited to Zechariah as Zechariah 1:11, “sitting still and at rest.”

The overthrow prophesied is also universal. It is not one throne only, as of Persia, but “the throne,” i. e., the sovereigns, “of kingdoms;” not a change of dynasty, but a destruction of their “strength;” not of a few powers only, but “the kingdoms of the pagan;” and that, in detail; that, in which their chief strength lay, the chariots and horsemen and their riders, and this, man by man, “every one by the sword of his brother.” This mutual destruction is a feature of the judgments at the end of the world against Gog and Magog Ezekiel 38:21; and of the yet unfulfilled prophecies of Zechariah Zechariah 14:17. Its stretching out so far does not hinder its partial fulfillment in earlier times. Zerubbabel stood, at the return from the captivity, as the representative of the house of David and heir of the promises to him, though in an inferior temporal condition; thereby the rather showing that the main import of the prophecy was not temporal. As then Ezekiel prophesied, Ezekiel 34:23. “I will set up One Shepherd over them, and He shall feed them, My servant David” Ezekiel 37:24-25; “And David My servant shall be king over them; and My servant David shall be their prince forever;” and Jeremiah Jeremiah 30:9. “They shall serve the Lord their God and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them; and Hosea, that Hosea 3:5. after many days shall the children of Israel return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king,” meaning by David, the great descendant of David, in whom the promises centered, so in his degree, the promise to Zerubbabel reaches on through his descendants to Christ; that, amid all the overthrow of empires, God would protect His sons’ sons until Christ should come, the King of kings and Lord of lords, whose Daniel 2:44. “kingdom shall never be destroyed, but it shall break in pieces and consume all those kingdoms, and shall stand fast forever.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Haggai 2:21. I will shake the heavens and the earthCalmet supposes that the invasion of Cambyses, and his death, are what the prophet has in view by this shaking of the heavens and the earth: but this invasion and defeat happened three years before they had begun to work at the temple; and how could it be made a matter of interest to Zerubbabel? Calmet answers this, by translating the words in the past tense; and shows that the fact was recalled to Zerubbabel's attention, to fix his confidence in God, c. Bp. Newcome says we may well understand this and the twenty-second verse Haggai 2:22 of the calamity undergone by Babylon in the reign of Darius of the Macedonian conquests in Persia; and of the wars which the successors of Alexander waged against each other: others under stand it of the Romans.


 
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