Haggai 2 part 1 (v. 1-9)

Haggai:

His name means: “to gather for a festival”.

Around 520 BC, or a little over 100 years after Zephaniah was written, and about 65 years after Judah fell to Babylon (587 BC.).

King Darius I ruled Persia from 521 to 486 BC. So, the second year of Darius’s reign, when Haggai wrote his book, was 520 BC.

He was a contemporary of Ezra, Zechariah, Zerubbabel the Governor of Judah and Joshua the High Priest and Daniel…

Haggai 2:1–9 NASB

1 On the twenty-first of the seventh month, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet saying, 2 “Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people saying, 3 ‘Who is left among you who saw this temple in its former glory? And how do you see it now? Does it not seem to you like nothing in comparison? 4 ‘But now take courage, Zerubbabel,’ declares the Lord, ‘take courage also, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all you people of the land take courage,’ declares the Lord, ‘and work; for I am with you,’ declares the Lord of hosts. 5 ‘As for the promise which I made you when you came out of Egypt, My Spirit is abiding in your midst; do not fear!’ 6 “For thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘Once more in a little while, I am going to shake the heavens and the earth, the sea also and the dry land. 7 ‘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. 8 ‘The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine,’ declares the Lord of hosts. 9 ‘The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘and in this place I will give peace,’ declares the Lord of hosts.”