Haggai 1:10

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹In the second year of the reign of Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, stating ²that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: "These people say, 'The time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.'" ³Then the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet, saying: ⁴"Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?" ⁵Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Think carefully about your ways. ⁶You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through." ⁷This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Think carefully about your ways. ⁸Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified, says the LORD. ⁹You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house. ¹⁰Therefore, on account of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth has withheld its crops.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 26:19, Deuteronomy 28:23, Deuteronomy 28:24, 1 Kings 8:35, 1 Kings 17:1, Jeremiah 14:1-6, Hosea 2:9, Joel 1:18-20

Reciprocal: Psalms 105:16 - Moreover Psalms 107:37 - which may Amos 4:7 - I have Zechariah 8:12 - the heavens

Cross-References

Genesis 1:4
And seeing that the light was good, God separated the light from the darkness.

Deuteronomy 32:4
He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.

Psalms 104:31
May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD rejoice in His works.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew,.... Or, "therefore over", or "upon you" a; where should be a stop; that is, because, of your neglect of the house of God; therefore upon you, and upon you only, and not upon other nations, the heaven is restrained from letting down the dew: or, "therefore I am against you" b; for the above reason, and which the following things show; and sad it is to have God to be an enemy, and against a people! or, "for your sake"; so the Syriac version, to which sense is the Targum,

"therefore for your sins;''

and so Jarchi, "the heaven is stayed from dew"; none descends from it; the Lord, who has the ordering of it, will not suffer it: to have the dew fall upon the earth in the night season is a great blessing; it makes the earth fruitful, revives the corn, plants, and herbs, and causes them to flourish and increase; and to have it restrained is a judgment:

and the earth is stayed [from] her fruit; from bringing forth its increase, which is the consequence of the dew being withheld.

a על-כן עליכם "propterea super vos", Varenius, Reinbeck, Burkius. b "Idcirco contra vos", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore, for you, - on your account; (As in Ps. 44:43.) for your sins, (Jon.) He points out the moral cause of the drought, whereas men think of this or that cause of the variations of the seasons, and we, e. g., take into our mouths Scriptural words, as “murrain of cattle,” and the like, and think of nothing less than why it was sent, or who sent it. Haggai directs the mind to the higher Cause, that as they withheld their service from God, so, on their account and by His will, His creatures withheld their service from them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Haggai 1:10. Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew — It appears from the following verse that God had sent a drought upon the land, which threatened them with scarcity and famine.