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1:1 God’s command to rebuild the temple
1 In Dareyavesh’s (Darius’s) second year as king of Persia, on the 1st of the sixth month, the prophet Haggai brought Yahweh’s message to the governor of Yehudah, Zerubbabel (Shealtiel’s son), and to the high priest, Yehoshua (Yehozadak’s son), telling them that[ref] 2 army commander Yahweh says, “These people say that it’s not the right time to rebuild Yahweh’s residence.”
3 Then Yahweh gave this message to the prophet Haggai to tell the people:
4 Is it a time for all of you to live in your panelled houses, while Yahweh’s temple lies in ruins? 5 So now army commander Yahweh says: “Decide what you’re all going to do. 6 You’ve all planted a lot, but only harvested a little. You’ve eaten, but it never fills you. You all drink, but never enough to satisfy you. You put on clothes, but never feel warm enough. You earn wages, but your pockets seem to be full of holes.”
7 So army commander Yahweh says again: “Decide what you’re all going to do. 8 Go up into the hills and bring back timber to build the temple. This will please and honour me,” says Yahweh.
9 “You expected much, but gained little. Anything you brought home, I blew away again. Why? Army commander Yahweh says it’s because my residence is still in ruins, while you’re all busy working on your own houses. 10 That’s why the sky withholds the dew and the soil withholds its crops. 11 I’ve summoned a drought onto the land and into the hills, onto the grain and the new wine, onto the oil and crops from the ground, onto both people and livestock, and onto everything you all do.”
1:12 The people start rebuilding
12 Then Shealtiyel’s son Zerubavel and Yehotsadak’s son Yehoshua, the high priest, and all the rest of the people listened to the voice of their God Yahweh via the words of the prophet Haggai, because Yahweh their God had sent him and the people respected Yahweh. 13 Then Yahweh’s messenger Haggai passed this message from Yahweh onto the people, “Yahweh declares that I’m with you all.” 14 Then Yahweh inspired Shealtiyel’s son Zerubavel, the governor of Judah, inspired Yehotsadak’s son Yehoshua, the high priest, and inspired all the rest of the people, and they came and started work on the temple for their God, army commander Yahweh, 15 on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month of the second year of Dareyavesh the king of Persia.