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Haggai 2:18

Wisdom

16 Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.

17 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.

Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid, consider it.

19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.

20 And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,

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BSB
Consider carefully from this day forward—from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the day the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid—consider carefully:
KJV
Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid, consider it.
WEB
‘Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid, consider it.
ASV
Consider, I pray you, from this day and backward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth [month], since the day that the foundation of Jehovah`s temple was laid, consider it.
DARBY
Consider, I pray you, from this day and onward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth [month], from the day that the foundation of Jehovah's temple was laid, consider [it].
BLB
Set now your⁺ heart from this day and onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth [month], from the day that the temple of YHWH was founded—set your⁺ heart!
ÅB
Gi da akt på tiden fra denne dag og tilbake, fra den fire og tyvende dag i den niende måned like til den dag da Herrens tempel ble grunnlagt! Gi akt!
OTB
‘Fra denne dagen og framover, fra den tjuefjerde dagen i den niende måneden,
gi nøye akt på dagen da grunnvollen til Herrens tempel ble lagt.
Tenk over:
B1930
Gi da akt på tiden fra denne dag og tilbake, fra den fire og tyvende dag i den niende måned like til den dag da Herrens tempel blev grunnlagt! Gi akt!

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  • Zechariah 8:9

    Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.

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  • Haggai 2:15

    And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:

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  • Ezra 5:1–2

    Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, even unto them.

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  • Zechariah 8:12

    For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.

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  • Deuteronomy 32:29

    O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

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  • Haggai 2:10

    In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,

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  • Haggai 1:14–15

    And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,

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  • Luke 15:17–20

    And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

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