Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comThrough the Bible Day by Day - Haggai 1:1 - 1:1
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Selfish and Shortsighted Thrift
Hag 1:1-11
Zerubbabel is the Sheshbazzar of Ezr 1:8. He was of the royal line, and appointed governor by Cyrus. Josedech was son of Seraiah, high priest when Jerusalem was taken, 2Ki 25:18-21. The returned exiles had been experiencing a succession of bad seasons. They had sown much, and reaped little; their money ran out of the bag as quickly as they put it in; a drought lay on all the land, and the reason for it was to be found in the neglected Temple. How frequently our disasters and losses in business arise from our failure to remember God’s cause. We say that we have not the time, cannot afford the money, and see no necessity for setting apart the Lord’s Day or the daily period for meditation and prayer. Did we see things as they really are, we should find that this is false economy, and wastes more than we save. “There is that which withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.” The mower does not waste time when he stops to whet his scythe.