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Haggai 2:8

Mine is the silver and Mine the gold, Declareth Yahweh of hosts:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   Thompson Chain Reference - Divine;   Gold;   Land;   Ownership, Divine;   Stewardship-Ownership;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Gold;   Riches;   Temple, the Second;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Haggai;   Zerubbabel or Zorobabel;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Joshua the son of jehozadak;   Zechariah, book of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Church, the;   Prophet, Christ as;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Messiah;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Haggai, Book of;   Nativity of Christ;   Prophecy;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Haggai;   Jeshua;   Zerubbabel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Desire of All Nations;   Haggai;   Minerals and Metals;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Haggai;   Priests and Levites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Glory;   Gold;   New Jerusalem;   Thessalonians Epistles to the;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Zerubbabel ;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Desire of All Nations;   Haggai;   Joshua (3);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Daniel, Book of;   Temple in Rabbinical Literature;  

Parallel Translations

Complete Jewish Bible
"The silver is mine, and the gold is mine," says Adonai -Tzva'ot.
Darby Translation
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Hebrew Names Version
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,' says the LORD of Hosts.
American Standard Version
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Bible in Basic English
The silver is mine and the gold is mine, says the Lord of armies.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The siluer is mine, and the golde is mine, sayth the Lord of hostes.
George Lamsa Translation
The silver is mine and the gold is mine, says the LORD of hosts.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The siluer is myne, and the golde is myne, sayth the Lorde of hoastes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and I will shake all nations, and the choice portions of all the nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord Almighty.
English Revised Version
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.
Amplified Bible
'The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine,' declares the LORD of hosts.
World English Bible
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,' says Yahweh of Hosts.
The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible
The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine, declares the LORD of Hosts.
Contemporary English Version
All silver and gold belong to me,
New Revised Standard
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the Lord of hosts.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Mine is the silver, and Mine the gold, saith the LORD of hosts.
King James Version (1611)
The siluer is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts.
King James Version
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts.
THE MESSAGE
‘I own the silver, I own the gold.' Decree of God -of-the-Angel-Armies.
New International Version (1984)
'The silver is mine and the gold is mine,' declares the LORD Almighty.
New Century Version
‘The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,' says the Lord All-Powerful.
New English Translation
‘The silver and gold will be mine,' says the Lord who rules over all.
New American Standard Bible
'The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine,' declares the LORD of armies.
New International Version
‘The silver is mine and the gold is mine,' declares the Lord Almighty.
New King James Version
"The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,' says the LORD of hosts.
New Living Translation
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the Lord of Heaven's Armies.
Lexham English Bible
‘The silver is mine and the gold is mine,' declares Yahweh of hosts.
Literal Translation
The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine, says Jehovah of Hosts.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The syluer is myne, & the golde is myne, saieth the LORDE of hoostes.
Update Bible Version
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says Yahweh of hosts.
Webster's Bible Translation
The silver [is] mine, and the gold [is] mine, saith the LORD of hosts.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(2-9) The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts.
Revised Standard Version
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the LORD of hosts.
New Life Bible
‘The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,' says the Lord of All.
Good News Translation
All the silver and gold of the world is mine.
Christian Standard Bible®
"The silver and gold belong to Me"—this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.
Easy-to-Read Version
‘All their silver really belongs to me! And all the gold is mine!' This is what the Lord All-Powerful said.
English Standard Version
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, declares the Lord of hosts.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Myn is siluer, and myn is gold, seith the Lord of oostes.
Young's Literal Translation
Mine [is] the silver, and Mine the gold, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine,' declares the LORD of hosts.

Contextual Overview

1 In the seventh month, on the twenty-first of the month, came the word of Yahweh, by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying: 2 Speak, I pray thee, unto Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, pasha of Judah, and unto Jehoshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, - and unto the remnant of the people, saying: - 3 Who is there among you that is left, that saw this house, in its former glory? And how do ye see it now? Is it not, in comparison with that, as nothing, in your eyes? 4 Now, therefore - Be strong, O Zerubbabel, urgeth Yahweh, and be strong, O Jehoshua son of Jehozadak the high priest, and be strong, all ye people of the land, urgeth Yahweh, and work; For, I, am with you, Declareth Yahweh of hosts. 5 The very thing that I solemnized with you, when ye came forth out of the land of Egypt, That, my spirit abiding in your midst, ye should not fear. 6 For, thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Yet once, a little, it is, - and I am shaking the heavens and the earth, and the sea and the dry land; 7 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. 8 Mine is the silver and Mine the gold, Declareth Yahweh of hosts: 9 Greater shall be the last glory of this house than the first, saith Yahweh of hosts, - and, in this place, will I give prosperity, Declareth Yahweh of hosts.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Kings 6:20-35, 1 Chronicles 29:14-16, Psalms 24:1, Psalms 50:10-12, Isaiah 60:13, Isaiah 60:17

Reciprocal: Genesis 14:22 - the most Exodus 11:2 - borrow Exodus 38:24 - All the gold 2 Chronicles 25:8 - The Lord Ezra 6:8 - the king's Job 42:10 - the Lord Matthew 21:3 - The Lord 2 Corinthians 9:8 - God

Cross-References

Genesis 2:8
And Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden, on the east, - and put there the man whom he had formed.
Genesis 2:9
And Yahweh God, caused to spring up, out of the ground, every tree pleasant to the sight and good for food, - and the tree of life, in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 3:24
So he expelled the man, - and caused to dwell - in front of the garden of Eden - cherubim and a brandishing sword - flame, to keep the way to the tree of life.
Genesis 4:16
So Cain went forth from the presence of Yahweh, - and dwelt in the land of Nod, eastward of Eden.
Genesis 13:10
So Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld all the circuit of the Jordan, that the whole of it, was well-watered, - before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the Garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as thou enterest into Zoar.
2 Kings 19:12
Did the gods of the nations, deliver them, whom my fathers destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, - and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden, who were in Telassar?
Isaiah 51:3
For Yahweh hath comforted Zion, He hath comforted all her waste places, And hath made her wilderness like Eden, And her waste plain like the garden of Yahweh, - Joy and gladness, shall be found in her, Thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Ezekiel 27:23
Haran and Canneh and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, - Asshur. Chilmad, Were merchants of thine:
Ezekiel 28:13
In Eden the garden of God, thou wast. Of every precious stone, was thy covering-Sardius. topaz, and diamond, Chrysolite beryl, and jasper, Sapphire carbuncle and emerald,- And of gold, was the work of thy timbrels and thy flutes within thee, In the day thou wast created, were they prepared:
Ezekiel 31:16
At the sound of his fall, I made nations tremble, When I caused him to descend into hades, with them who descend into the pit, - Then were grieved in the earth below-All the trees of Eden, The choicest and best of Lebanon All who had drunk the waters.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The silver [is] mine, and the gold [is] mine, saith the Lord of hosts. This seems designed to anticipate an objection taken from the gold and silver, with which the first temple was either decorated, or were in gifts dedicated to it; and which, it might easily be foreseen, would be wanting in the second temple; and in answer to which the Lord observes, that all the gold and silver in the world were his, were made by him, and were at his dispose; and therefore whatever were bestowed upon the former temple was only giving him his own; what he had a prior right to, and was no accession of riches or honour to him; and so it would be the same, let what would be expended on this; and therefore it was an article very inconsiderable, and of little significance; nor did he regard, or was he delighted with anything of this kind; and, was he so disposed, he could easily command all the gold and silver in the world together, and bring it into this house, to enrich and adorn it, without doing any injury to any person; but these were things he delighted not in; and, besides, he had a far greater glory in view to put upon this house, as follows:

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine - These words, which have occasioned some to think, that God, in speaking of the glory with which He should fill the house, meant our material riches, suggest the contrary. For silver was no ornament of the temple of Solomon. Everything was overlaid with gold. In the tabernacle there were bowls of silver, in Soloman’s temple they and all were of gold 1Ki 7:50; 2 Chronicles 4:8. Silver, we are expressly told, “was nothing accounted of 1 Kings 10:21 in the days of Solomon: he 1 Kings 10:27. made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones - for abundance.” Rather, as God says by the Psalmist Psalms 50:10-12, “Every beast of the forest is Mine, so are the cattle upon a thousand hills: I know all the fowls of the mountains, and the wild beasts of the field are Mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is Mine and the fullness thereof:” so here He tells them, that for the glory of His house He needed not gold or silver: for all the wealth of the world is His. They had no ground “to grieve then, that they could not equal the magnificence of Solomon who had abundance of gold and silver.” All was God’s. He would fill it with divine glory. The Desire of all nations, Christ, should come, and be a glory, to which all created glory is nothing.

“God says really and truly, that the silver and gold is His, which in utmost bounty He created, and in His most just government administers, so that, without His will and dominion, neither can the bad have gold and silver for the punishment of avarice, nor the good for the use of mercy. Its abundance does not inflate the good, nor its want crush them: but the bad, when bestowed, it blinds: when taken away, it tortures.”

“It is as if He would say, Think not the temple inglorious, because, may be, it will have no portion of gold or silver, and their splendor. I need not such things. How should I? “For Mine is the silver and Mine the gold, saith the Lord Almighty.” I seek rather true worshipers: with their brightness will I guild this temple. Let him come who hath right faith, is adorned by graces, gleams with love for Me, is pure in heart, poor in spirit, compassionate and good.” “These make the temple, i. e., the Church, glorious and renowned, being glorified by Christ. For they have learned to pray, Psalms 90:17. “The glory of the Lord our God be upon us.”


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