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Haggai 1:7–8

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¶ Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.
Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the Lord.
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From verse 7

  1. Psalms 119:59–60Rank 1 from verse 7
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    59I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

    60I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.

  2. Haggai 1:5Rank 2 from verse 7
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    5Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.

  3. Philippians 3:1Rank 3 from verse 7
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    1FINALLY, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.

  4. Isaiah 28:10Rank 4 from verse 7
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    10For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

From verse 8

  1. Psalms 132:13–14Rank 1 from verse 8
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    13For the Lord hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.

    14This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.

  2. 2 Chronicles 7:16Rank 2 from verse 8
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    16For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

  3. 2 Chronicles 2:8–10Rank 3 from verse 8
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    8Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,

    9Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.

    10And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.

  4. Haggai 2:7Rank 4 from verse 8
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    7And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts.

  5. 1 Kings 9:3Rank 5 from verse 8
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    3And the Lord said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

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Haggai 1:7

COMBINED MEANING

hosts

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1. Armies or multitudes. 2. Persons who receive or entertain guests.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

consider

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1. To think upon attentively; to examine or weigh. 2. To regard, observe, or take notice of.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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your

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The possessive form of ye or you, ordinarily plural, marking what belongs to, concerns, proceeds from, or stands in relation to the persons addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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Haggai 1:8

COMBINED MEANING

mountain

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Sense 1: A great natural elevation of land or an elevated region. Sense 2: A figure of something lofty or formidable.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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house

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Sense 1: A building or dwelling. Sense 2: The people of a household or family. Sense 3: A lineage or family line. Sense 4: As a verb, to shelter, lodge, or provide a dwelling for.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

take

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To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

glorified

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of glorify, meaning to honour, praise, magnify, exalt, make glorious, display glory in, or cause the excellence and worth of a person or name to be acknowledged.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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1:7¶ Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.

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1:8Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the Lord.

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1:9Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.

1:10Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

1:11And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.

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