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Haggai 2:7
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I will shake up the nations, and they will come to you with wealth from every nation. And then I will fill this Temple with glory.' That is what the Lord All-Powerful said!
'I will shake all the nations; and they will come with the wealth of all nations, and I will fill this house with glory,' says the LORD of armies.
I will shake all the nations, and they will bring their wealth. Then I will fill this Temple with glory,' says the Lord All-Powerful.
and I will shake all nations; and the precious things of all nations shall come; and I will fill this house with glory, says Yahweh of hosts.
And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.
'I will shake all the nations; and they will come with the desirable and precious things of all nations, and I will fill this house with glory and splendor,' says the LORD of hosts.
And I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and I will fill this house with glory, says the Lord of hosts.
and I will shake all nations. The precious things of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory, says Yahweh of Hosts.
and Y schal moue alle folkis, and the desirid to alle folkis schal come; and Y schal fille this hous with glorie, seith the Lord of oostis.
and I will shake all nations, and the desirable things of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.
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.
I will shake the nations, and their treasures will be brought here. Then the brightness of my glory will fill this temple.
and I will shake all nations; and the precious things of all nations shall come; and I will fill this house with glory, saith Jehovah of hosts.
And I will make a shaking of all the nations, and the desired things of all nations will come: and I will make this house full of my glory, says the Lord of armies.
and I will shake all the nations, so that the treasures of all the nations will flow in; and I will fill this house with glory," says Adonai -Tzva'ot.
and I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come; and I will fill this house with glory, saith Jehovah of hosts.
and I will shake all nations, and the choicest things of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.
And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts.
I will shake all the nations so that the riches of all nations will come in. And I will fill this house with greatness,' says the Lord of All.
and I will shake all the nations, so that the treasure of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with splendor, says the Lord of hosts.
And I will moue all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come, and I will fill this House with glory, sayth the Lord of hostes.
And I will shake all nations, and they shall bring the precious things of all nations; and I will fill the house with glory, says the LORD of hosts.
And I will shake all the nations, and the delight of all the nations, shall come in, - and I will fill this house with glory, saith Yahweh of hosts.
(2-8) And I will move all nations: AND THE DESIRED OF ALL NATIONS SHALL COME: and I will fill this house with glory: saith the Lord of hosts.
and I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and I will fill this house with splendor, says the LORD of hosts.
And I will moue all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glorie, sayth the Lorde of hoastes.
For thus saith the Lord Almighty; Yet once I will shake the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
I will overthrow all the nations, and their treasures will be brought here, and the Temple will be filled with wealth.
I will shake all the nations so that the treasures of all the nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,” says the Lord of Armies.
and I will shake all nations. The precious things of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of Hosts.
And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts.
I will shake all the nations so that the treasure of all the nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,' says Yahweh of hosts.
And I will shake all the nations; and the desire of all nations shall come. And I will fill this house with glory, says Jehovah of Hosts.
And I have shaken all the nations, And they have come [to] the desire of all the nations, And I have filled this house [with] honour, Said Jehovah of Hosts.
Yee I will moue all Heithen, & the comforte of all Heithen shall come, & so wil I fyll this house with honoure, saieth the LORDE of hoostes.
I will also shake up all the nations, and they will offer their treasures; then I will fill this temple with glory,' says the Lord who rules over all.
and I will shake all nations, and they shall come to the Desire of All Nations, [fn] and I will fill this temple with glory,' says the Lord of hosts.
'I will shake all the nations; and they will come with the wealth of all nations, and I will fill this house with glory,' says the LORD of hosts.
And I will shake all the nations; and they will come with the desirable things of all nations, and I will fill this house with glory,' says Yahweh of hosts.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I will shake: Ezekiel 21:27, Daniel 2:44, Daniel 2:45, Daniel 7:20-25, Joel 3:9-16, Luke 21:10, Luke 21:11
and the: Genesis 3:15, Genesis 22:18, Genesis 49:10, Zechariah 9:9, Zechariah 9:10, Luke 2:10, Luke 2:11, Luke 2:27, Luke 2:46, Romans 15:9-15, Galatians 3:8
I will fill: Exodus 40:34, Exodus 40:35, 1 Kings 8:11, 2 Chronicles 5:14, Psalms 80:1, Malachi 3:1, Luke 19:47, Luke 20:1, Luke 21:38, John 1:14, John 2:13-17, John 7:37-39, John 10:23-38, Colossians 2:9
Reciprocal: Exodus 29:43 - sanctified 2 Chronicles 7:1 - the glory Psalms 24:7 - King Psalms 60:2 - broken Psalms 85:9 - glory Song of Solomon 8:1 - that thou Isaiah 13:13 - I will Isaiah 23:11 - stretched Isaiah 60:2 - the Lord Isaiah 60:7 - I will Jeremiah 30:18 - the palace Ezekiel 31:16 - made Ezekiel 38:19 - Surely Ezekiel 43:5 - the glory Ezekiel 44:4 - the glory Amos 8:8 - the land Haggai 1:8 - I will be Haggai 2:21 - I will Zechariah 2:5 - the glory Zechariah 8:22 - General Matthew 11:3 - Art Matthew 12:6 - General Luke 7:19 - Art Luke 12:56 - that Luke 24:44 - in the prophets John 7:14 - the temple Acts 13:32 - how 2 Corinthians 3:10 - had Hebrews 12:26 - Yet once 1 Peter 1:10 - which 1 Peter 2:7 - you Revelation 6:12 - the sun
Cross-References
The third branch, called the Tigris, flowed east of the land of Asshur. The fourth branch is called the Euphrates.
The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it.
He gave names to all the livestock, all the birds of the sky, and all the wild animals. But still there was no helper just right for him.
So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. While the man slept, the Lord God took out one of the man's ribs and closed up the opening.
So the Lord God banished them from the Garden of Eden, and he sent Adam out to cultivate the ground from which he had been made.
Everything that breathed and lived on dry land died.
But Moses and Aaron fell face down on the ground. "O God," they pleaded, "you are the God who gives breath to all creatures. Must you be angry with all the people when only one man sins?"
"O Lord , you are the God who gives breath to all creatures. Please appoint a new man as leader for the community.
how much less will he trust people made of clay! They are made of dust, crushed as easily as a moth.
As long as I live, while I have breath from God,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And I will shake all nations,.... By changing their governors, and forms of government; which was done by the Romans, when subdued by them; and by bringing in wars among them, which produced those changes; and by civil wars among the Romans themselves, in the several nations that belonged to them, which were notorious a little before the coming of Christ: or else this was to be done, and was done, by the preaching of the Gospel, both in Judea, and in the Gentile world, when all the inhabitants thereof were shaken by it, in one sense or another; some had their hearts and consciences shaken by the Spirit and grace of God through it, and were brought to embrace it, and profess it; yea, were brought to Christ, to yield obedience to him, his truths and ordinances; and others were moved with envy, wrath, and indignation at it, and rose up to oppose it, and stop the progress of it:
and the desire of all nations shall come; not the desirable things of all nations, or them with them, as their gold and silver; and which is the sense of Jarchi, Kimchi, and Aben Ezra; but this is contrary to the syntax of the words, to the context, Haggai 2:8, and to facts; and, if true, would not have given this temple a greater glory than Solomon's: nor the elect of God, as others, brought in through the preaching of the Gospel; who are indeed the desire of God, he takes pleasure in them; and of Christ, whose delights have been always in them; and of the blessed Spirit, whose love to them, and esteem of them, are very manifest; and with the saints they are the excellent in the earth, in whom is all their delight: yet not they, but one far more glorious and excellent, is intended, even the Messiah, in whom all nations of the earth were to be blessed; and who, so far as he was known by good men or proselytes among the Gentiles, was desired by them, as by Job, and others; and who, when he came, brought all good things with him; and has all blessings in him, that may make him desirable to men, being what they want; and though he is not in fact desired by all, yet of right he should be, and to all sensible sinners he is; even above all persons and things in the whole world; on account of his excellencies and glories; his mediatorial qualifications; his names, offices, and relations; the blessings of grace in him; the works done by him; his truths and ordinances, people, ways, and worship: and when it is said, he "shall come", the meaning is, not only into the world by assumption of nature, to obtain redemption for his people; but into this temple now building, in that nature assumed; where he appeared at the presentation of him by his parents; and at the passover, when twelve years of age; and when he drove out the buyers and sellers from it; and when he often taught in it. The word "come" is in the plural number; and may denote his frequent coming thither, as well as in different respects; his personal coming; his spiritual coming; his coming to take vengeance on the Jews; and his last coming, of which some understand the words particularly:
and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts; alluding to the glory which filled the tabernacle of Moses, and the temple of Solomon, Exodus 40:35 but that was but a shadowy glory, this a real one; here Christ appeared in person, who is the brightness of his Father's glory; here his glorious doctrines were taught, and glorious miracles wrought; and the Spirit of glory rested on the disciples, in his gifts and grace bestowed upon them in an extraordinary manner, on the day of Pentecost.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And the desire of all nations shall come - The words can only mean this, the central longing of all nations
He whom they longed for, either through the knowledge of Him spread by the Jews in their dispersion, or mutely by the aching craving of the human heart, longing for the restoration from its decay. âThe earnest expectation of the creatureâ did not begin with the Coming of Christ, nor was it limited to those, who actually came to Him Romans 8:19-22. âThe whole creation,â Paul saith, âgroaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.â It was enslaved, and the better self longed to be free; every motion of grace in the multitudinous heart of man was a longing for its Deliverer; every weariness of what it was, every fleeting vision of what was better, every sigh from out of its manifold ills, were notes of the one varied cry, âCome and help us.â Manâs heart, formed in the image of God, could not but ache to be reformed by and for Him, though âan unknown God,â who should reform it.
This longing increased as the time drew near, when Christ should come. The Roman biographer attests the existence of this expectation, not among the Jews only, but in the East ; this was quickened doubtless among the pagan by the Jewish Sibylline book, in that, amid the expectations of one sent from heaven, who should found a kingdom of righteousness, which the writer drew from the Hebrew prophets, he inserted denunciations of temporal vengeance upon the Romans, which Easterns would share. Still, although written 170 years before our Lord came , it had not apparently much effect until the time, when, from the prophecies of Daniel it was clear, that He must shortly come . Yet the attempt of the Jewish and pagan historian to wrest it to Vespasian, shows how great must have been the influence of the expectation, which they attempted to turn aside.
The Jews, who rejected our Lord whom Haggai predicted, still were convinced that the prediction must be fulfilled before the destruction of the second temple. The impulse did not cease even after its destruction. R. Akiba, whom they accounted âthe first oracle of his time, the first and greatest guardian of the tradition and old law,â of whom they said, that âGod revealed to him things unknown to Moses,â was induced by this prophecy to acknowledge the impostor Bar-cochab, to the destruction of himself and of the most eminent of his time; fulfilling our Lordâs words John 5:43, âI am come in My fathers name, and ye receive Me not; if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.â
Akiba, following the traditional meaning of the great prophecy which rivetted his own eyes, paraphrased the words, âYet a little, a little of the kingdom, will I give to Israel upon the destruction of the first house, and after the kingdom, lo! I will shake heaven, and after that will come the Messiah.â
Since the words can only mean âthe Desire of all nations,â he or that which all nations long for, the construction of the words does not affect the meaning. Herod doubtless thought to advance his own claims on the Jewish people by his material adorning of the temple; yet, although mankind do covet gold and silver, few could seriously think that, while a pagan immoral but observant poet could speak of âgold undiscovered and so better placed,â or our own of the âpale and common drudge âTween man and man,â a Hebrew prophet could recognize gold and silver as âthe desire of all nations.â Rabbi Akiba and Jeromeâs Jewish teachers, after our Lord came, felt no difficulty in understanding it of a person. We cannot in English express the delicacy of the phrase, whereby manifoldness is combined in unity, the Object of desire containing in itself many objects of desire.
To render âthe desire of all nationsâ or âthe desires of all nationsâ alike fail to do this. A great pagan master of language said to his wife, âfare you well, my longings,â i. e., I suppose, if he had analyzed his feelings, he meant that she manifoldly met the longings of his heart; she had in herself manifold gifts to content them. So Paul sums up all the truths and gifts of the Gospel, all which God shadowed out in the law and had given us in Christ, under the name of âthe good things to come.â A pious modern writer speaks of âthe unseen desirables of the spiritual world.â A psalmist expresses at once the collective, âGodâs Wordâ and the âwordsâ contained in it, by an idiom like Haggaiâs, joining the feminine singular as a collective with the plural verb; âHow sweet are Thy word unto my taste,â literally âpalate.â
It is Godâs word, at once collectively and individually, which was to the Psalmist so sweet. What was true of the whole, was true, one by one, of each part; what was true of each part, was true of the whole. So here, the object of this longing was manifold, but met in one, was concentrated in One, 1 Corinthians 1:30. âin Christ Jesus, Who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption.â That which the whole world sighed and mourned for, knowingly or unknowingly, light to disperse its darkness, liberty from its spiritual slavery, restoration from its degradation, could not come to us without some one, who should impart it to us.
But if Jesus was âthe longed-for of the nationsâ before He came, by that mute longing of need for that which it wants (as the parched ground thirsteth for the rain how much more afterward! So Micah and Isaiah describe many peoples inviting one another Micah 4:2; Isaiah 2:3. âCome ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths.â And in truth He became the âdesire of the nations,â much more than of the Jews; as, Paul says, (Romans 10:19-20; quoting Deuteronomy 32:21.Isaiah 65:2.) God foretold of old; âMoses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are not a people: by a foolish nation I will anger you. But Esaias is very bold and saith, I was found of them that sought Me not.â
So until now and in eternity, âChrist is the longing of all holy souls, who long for nothing else, than to please Him, daily to love Him more, to worship Him better. So John longed for Him; âCome, Lord Jesus Revelation 22:20. So Isaiah Isaiah 26:8-9, âThe desire of our soul is to Thy Name and to the remembrance of Thee: with my soul have I desired Thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me, will I seek Thee early.â So Ignatius, âLet fire, cross, troops of wild beasts, dissections, rendings, scattering of bones, mincing of limbs, grindings of the whole body, ill tortures of the devil come upon me, only may I gain Jesus Christ. - I seek Him Who for us died; I long for Him Who for us rose.â
âHungerest thou and desirest food? Long for Jesus! He is the bread and refreshment of Angels. He is manna, âcontaining in Him all sweetness and pleasurable delight.â Thirstest thou? Long for Jesus! He is the well of âliving water,â refreshing, so that thou shouldest thirst no more. Art thou sick? Go to Jesus. He is the Saviour, the physician, nay, salvation itself. Art thou dying? Sigh for Jesus! He is âthe resurrection and the life.â Art thou perplexed? Come to Jesus! He is âthe Angel of great counsel.â Art thou ignorant and erring? Ask Jesus; He is âthe way, the truth and the life.â Art thou a sinner? Call on Jesus! For âHe shall save His people from their sins.â To this end He came into the world: âThis is all His fruit, to take away sin.â Art thou tempted by pride, gluttony, lust, sloth? Call on Jesus! He is humility, soberness, chastity, love, fervor: âHe bare our infirmities, and carried,â yea still beareth and carrieth, âour griefs.â
Seekest thou beauty? He is âfairer than the children of men.â Seekest thou wealth? In Him are âall treasures,â yea in Him âthe fullness of the Godhead dwelleth.â Art thou ambitious of honors? âGlory and riches are in His house.â âHe is the King of glory.â Seekest thou a friend? He hath the greatest love for thee, who for love of thee came down from heaven, toiled, endured the Sweat of Blood, the Cross and Death; He prayed for thee by name in the garden, and poured forth tears of Blood! Seekest thou wisdom? He is the Eternal and Uncreated Wisdom of the Father! Wishest thou for consolation and joy? He is the sweetness of souls, the joy and jubilee of Angels. Wishest thou for righteousness and holiness? He is âthe Holy of holies;â He âis everlasting Righteousness,â justifying and sanctifying all who believe and hope in Him. Wishest thou for a blissful life? He is âlife eternal,â the bliss of the saints. Long then for Him, love Him, sigh for Him! In Him thou wilt find all good; out of Him, all evil, all misery. Say then with Francis, âMy Jesus, my love and my all!â O Good Jesus, burst the cataract of Thy love, that its streams, yea seas, may flow down upon us, yea, inebriate and overwhelm us.â
And I will fill this house with glory - The glory then was not to be anything, which came from man, but directly from God. It was the received expression of Godâs manifestation of Himself in the tabernacle Exodus 40:34-35. in Solomanâs temple, 1Ki 8:11; 2 Chronicles 5:14; 2 Chronicles 7:1-12, and of the ideal temple Ezekiel 43:5; Ezekiel 44:4. which Ezekiel saw, after the likeness of that of Solomon, that âthe glory of the Lord filled the house.â When then of this second temple God uses the self-same words, that He will âfill it with glory,â with what other glory should He fill it than His own? In the history it is said, âthe glory of the Lord filled the temple;â for there man relates what God did. Here it is God Himself who speaks; so He says not, âthe glory of the Lord,â but, âI will fill the house with glory,â glory which was His to give, which came from Himself. To interpret that glory of anything material, is to do violence to language, to force on words of Scripture an unworthy sense, which they refuse to bear.
The gold upon the walls, even had the second temple been adorned like the first did not fill the temple of Solomon. However richly any building might be overlaid with gold, no one could say that it is filled with it. A building is filled with what it contains; a mint or treasure-house may be filled with gold: the temple of God was âfilled,â we are told, with âthe glory of the Lord.â His creatures bring Him such things as they can offer; they bring Isaiah 60:6 âgold and incense;â they Psalms 72:10 âbring presentsâ and âoffer gifts;â they do it, moved by His Spirit, as acceptable to Him. God was never said to give these offerings to Himself.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 7. And the Desire of all nations shall come — The present Hebrew text is as follows: ×××× ×××ת ×× ×××××. This is a difficult place if understood of a person: but ×××ת chemdath, desire, cannot well agree with ××× bau, they shall come. It is true that some learned men suppose that ××××ת chemdoth, desirable things, may have been the original reading: but this is supported by no MS., nor is ××× found in the singular number in any. It is generally understood of the desirable or valuable things which the different nations should bring into the temple; and it is certain that many rich presents were brought into this temple. All are puzzled with it. But the principal difficulty lies in the verb ×××× ubau, they shall come. If we found ×××× ×××ת ubaa chemdath in the singular, then it would read as in our text, And the Desire of all nations shall come: but no such reading appears in any MS.; nor is it fairly acknowledged, except by the Vulgate, which reads, Et veniet desideratus cunctis gentibus, "And that which is desired," or the desired Person, "shall come to all nations." In Haggai 2:7 God says he will shake or stir up all nations; that these nations shall bring their desirable things; that the house shall be filled with God's glory; that the silver and gold, which these nations are represented as bringing by way of gifts, are the Lord's; and that the glory of this latter house shall exceed the former. Bp. Chandler labours to vindicate the present translation; but he makes rash assertions, and is abandoned by the Hebrew text. The ×× ba, to come, is often used in the sense of bring, and that ×××ת chemdath, desire, may be considered as the plural for ××××ת, having the point holem instead of the × vau, and thus mean desirable things, will not be denied by those who are acquainted with the genius and construction of the Hebrew language. Bp. Chandler thinks that ××, he came, cannot be used of things, but of persons only. Here he is widely mistaken, for it is used of days perpetually; and of the ark, 2 Samuel 6:9; and of mounts coming against Jerusalem, Jeremiah 32:24; and of trees coming to adorn the temple, Isaiah 60:13; and of silver and gold coming into the temple, Joshua 6:19; and Jeremiah 6:20, Why doth incense come to me? See Abp. Secker's notes. I cannot see how the words can apply to Jesus Christ, even if the construction were less embarrassed than it is; because I cannot see how he could be called THE DESIRE OF ALL NATIONS. The whole seems to be a metaphorical description of the Church of Christ, and of his filling it with all the excellences of the Gentile world, when the fulness of the Gentiles shall be brought in.
