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Haggai 2:8

(2-9) The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts.

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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

Christian Standard Bible®
“The silver and gold belong to me”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies.
Hebrew Names Version
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,' says 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.
English Standard Version
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, declares the Lord of hosts.
New American Standard Bible
'The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine,' declares the LORD of armies.
New Century Version
‘The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,' says the Lord All-Powerful.
Amplified Bible
'The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine,' declares the LORD of hosts.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The siluer is mine, and the golde is mine, sayth the Lord of hostes.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine,' declares the LORD of hosts.
Legacy Standard Bible
‘The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,' declares Yahweh of hosts.
Berean Standard 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,
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.
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.
George Lamsa Translation
The silver is mine and the gold is mine, says the LORD of hosts.
Good News Translation
All the silver and gold of the world is mine.
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.
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.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Mine is the silver, and Mine the gold, saith 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.
World English Bible
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,' says Yahweh of Hosts.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Myn is siluer, and myn is gold, seith the Lord of oostes.
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.
New English Translation
‘The silver and gold will be mine,' says the Lord who rules over all.
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.
New Life Bible
‘The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,' says the Lord of All.
New Revised Standard
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the Lord of hosts.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Mine is the silver and Mine the gold, Declareth Yahweh of hosts:
Revised Standard Version
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the LORD of hosts.
Young's Literal Translation
Mine [is] the silver, and Mine the gold, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The syluer is myne, & the golde is myne, saieth the LORDE of hoostes.
THE MESSAGE
‘I own the silver, I own the gold.' Decree of God -of-the-Angel-Armies.

Contextual Overview

1 (2-2) And in the seventh month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Aggeus the prophet, saying: 2 (2-3) Speak to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel the governor of Juda, and to Jesus the son of Josedec the high priest, and to the rest of the people, saying: 3 (2-4) Who is left among you, that saw this house in its first glory? and how do you see it now? is it not in comparison to that as nothing in your eyes? 4 (2-5) Yet now take courage, O Zorobabel, saith the Lord, and take courage, Jesus the son of Josedec the high priest, and take courage, all ye people of the land, saith the Lord of hosts: and perform (for I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts) 5 (2-6) The word that I covenanted with you when you came out of the land of Egypt: and my spirit shall be in the midst of you: fear not. 6 (2-7) For thus saith the Lord of hosts: Yet one little while, and I will move the heaven and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land. 7 (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. 8 (2-9) The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts. 9 (2-10) Great shall be the glory of this last house more than of the first, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place I will give peace, saith the Lord 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 the Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure from the beginning: wherein he placed man whom he had formed.
Genesis 2:9
And the Lord God brought forth of the ground all manner of trees, fair to behold, and pleasant to eat of: the tree of life also in the midst of paradise: and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 3:24
And he cast out Adam: and placed before the paradise of pleasure Cherubims, and a flaming sword, turning every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Genesis 4:16
And Cain went out from the face of the Lord, and dwelt as a fugitive on the earth at the east side of Eden.
Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the Jordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes to Segor.
2 Kings 19:12
Have the gods of the nations delivered any of them, whom my fathers have destroyed, to wit, Gozan, and Haran, and Reseph, and the children of Eden, that were in Thelassar?
Isaiah 51:3
The Lord therefore will comfort Sion, and will comfort all the ruins thereof: and he will make her desert as a place of pleasure, and her wilderness as the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of praise.
Ezekiel 27:23
Haran, and Chene, and Eden were thy merchants; Saba, Assur, and Chelmad sold to thee.
Ezekiel 28:13
Thou wast in the pleasures of the paradise of God: every precious stone was thy covering: the sardius, the topaz, and the jasper, the chrysolite, and the onyx, and the beryl, the sapphire, and the carbuncle, and the emerald: gold the work of thy beauty: and thy pipes were prepared in the day that thou wast created.
Ezekiel 31:16
I shook the nations with the sound of his fall, when I brought him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of pleasure, the choice and best in Libanus, all that were moistened with waters, were comforted in the lowest parts of the earth.

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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