Haggai 2:1
The Glory to Come
2:1 On the twenty-first day of the seventh month, 1 the Lord spoke again through the prophet Haggai: 2
Haggai 2:20
Zerubbabel the Chosen One
2:20 Then the Lord spoke again to Haggai 3 on the twenty-fourth day of the month: 4
1 tn Heb “In the seventh [month], on the twenty-first day of the month.”
sn The seventh month was the month Tishri, according to the modern (Julian) calendar October 17, 520 b.c. The twenty-first day of Tishri marked the seventh day of the Feast of Tabernacles (Num 29:32-34). It also coincided with the date 440 years earlier (960 b.c.) when Solomon finished building his temple (1 Kgs 6:38; 8:2).
2 tc Heb “the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying.” The MT has בְּיַד (bÿyad, “by the hand of” = “through” [so NAB, NIV, NLT] as in 1:1, 3); the Murabba’at Dead Sea text reads אֶל (’el, “to”), perhaps because the following command is given to the prophet.
3 tn Heb “and the word of the Lord came a second time to Haggai.” This Hebrew expression is like the one in 2:10 and is slightly different from the one in 1:1, 3; 2:1.
4 sn Again, the twenty-fourth day of the month was Kislev 24 or December 18, 520 b.c. See v. 10.