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Haggai 2:21
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"Go to Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah and tell him that I will shake heaven and earth.
"Speak to Zerubbabel governor of Judah, saying, 'I am going to shake the heavens and the earth.
"Tell Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah, ‘I am going to shake the heavens and the earth.
Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;
Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;
"Speak to Zerubbabel governor of Judah, saying, 'I am going to shake the heavens and the earth.
"Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I am about to shake the heavens and the earth,
"Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, 'I will shake the heavens and the earth.
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,
Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth:
"Tell Zerubbabel governor of Judah that I am about to shake the heavens and the earth:
Tell Governor Zerubbabel of Judah that I am going to shake the heavens and the earth
Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;
Say to Zerubbabel, ruler of Judah, I will make a shaking of the heavens and the earth,
"Tell Z'rubavel, governor of Y'hudah, ‘I will shake the heavens and the earth,
Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;
'Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying: I will shake the heavens and the earth;
Speake to Zerubbabel gouernor of Iudah, saying, I wil shake the heauens and the earth.
"Tell Zerubbabel, ruler of Judah, ‘I am going to shake the heavens and the earth.
Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I am about to shake the heavens and the earth,
Speake to Zerubbabel the prince of Iudah, and say, I wil shake the heauens and the earth,
Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;
Speak thou unto Zerubbabel, pasha of Judah, saying, - I am shaking, the heavens and the earth;
(2-22) Speak to Zorobabel the governor of Juda, saying: I will move both heaven and earth.
"Speak to Zerub'babel, governor of Judah, saying, I am about to shake the heavens and the earth,
Speake to Zorobabel the prince of Iuda, and say, I will shake the heauens and the earth:
And the word of the Lord came the second time to Aggaeus the prophet, on the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,
for Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah: "I am about to shake heaven and earth
“Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah: I am going to shake the heavens and the earth.
"Speak to Zerubbavel, governor of Yehudah, saying, 'I will shake the heavens and the eretz.
Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;
"Say to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah: I am going to shake the heavens and the earth,
Speak to Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth.
`Speak unto Zerubbabel governor of Judah, saying: I am shaking the heavens and the earth,
Speake to Zorobabel the prynce of Iuda, and saye: I will shake both heauen and earth,
Tell Zerubbabel governor of Judah: ‘I am ready to shake the sky and the earth.
"Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying: "I will shake heaven and earth.
"Speak to Zerubbabel governor of Judah, saying, 'I am going to shake the heavens and the earth.
"Speak to Zerubbabel governor of Judah, saying, ‘I am going to shake the heavens and the earth.
Contextual Overview
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
As the sun was going down, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a terrifying darkness came down over him.
So David took the spear and jug of water that were near Saul's head. Then he and Abishai got away without anyone seeing them or even waking up, because the Lord had put Saul's men into a deep sleep.
It came to me in a disturbing vision at night, when people are in a deep sleep.
He speaks in dreams, in visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they lie in their beds.
Lazy people sleep soundly, but idleness leaves them hungry.
While he was speaking, I fainted and lay there with my face to the ground. But Gabriel roused me with a touch and helped me to my feet.
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 Zerubbabelâs 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 âprobably over 2,000,000 square miles, or more than half of modern Europe,â 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 âthe Medes revolted from Darius, and having revolted were brought back into subjection, defeated in battle.â 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, âsitting still and at rest.â
The overthrow prophesied is also universal. It is not one throne only, as of Persia, but âthe throne,â i. e., the sovereigns, âof kingdoms;â not a change of dynasty, but a destruction of their âstrength;â not of a few powers only, but âthe kingdoms of the pagan;â and that, in detail; that, in which their chief strength lay, the chariots and horsemen and their riders, and this, man by man, âevery one by the sword of his brother.â 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. âI will set up One Shepherd over them, and He shall feed them, My servant Davidâ Ezekiel 37:24-25; âAnd David My servant shall be king over them; and My servant David shall be their prince forever;â and Jeremiah Jeremiah 30:9. âThey 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,â 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 sonsâ sons until Christ should come, the King of kings and Lord of lords, whose Daniel 2:44. âkingdom shall never be destroyed, but it shall break in pieces and consume all those kingdoms, and shall stand fast forever.â
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Haggai 2:21. I will shake the heavens and the earth — Calmet 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.
