Haggai 2:7

2:7 I will also shake up all the nations, and they 1  will offer their treasures; 2  then I will fill this temple with glory,’ says the Lord who rules over all.

Haggai 2:9

2:9 ‘The future splendor of this temple will be greater than that of former times,’ 3  the Lord who rules over all declares, ‘and in this place I will give peace.’” 4 

Haggai 2:18

2:18 ‘Think carefully about the past: 5  from today, the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, 6  to the day work on the temple of the Lord was resumed, 7  think about it. 8 

1 tn Heb “all the nations.”

2 tn Though the subject here is singular (חֶמְדַּה, khemdah; “desire”), the preceding plural predicate mandates a collective subject, “desired (things)” or, better, an emendation to a plural form, חֲמֻדֹת (khamudot, “desirable [things],” hence “treasures”). Cf. ASV “the precious things”; NASB “the wealth”; NRSV “the treasure.” In the OT context this has no direct reference to the coming of the Messiah.

3 tn Heb “greater will be the latter splendor of this house than the former”; NAB “greater will be the future glory.”

4 tn In the Hebrew text there is an implicit play on words in the clause “in this place [i.e., Jerusalem] I will give peace”: in יְרוּשָׁלַיִם (yÿrushalayim) there will be שָׁלוֹם (shalom).

5 tn Heb “set your heart.” A similar expression occurs in v. 15.

6 sn The twenty-fourth day of the ninth month was Kislev 24 or December 18, 520. See v. 10. Here the reference is to “today,” the day the oracle is being delivered.

7 sn The day work…was resumed. This does not refer to the initial founding of the Jerusalem temple in 536 b.c. but to the renewal of construction three months earlier (see 1:15). This is clear from the situation described in v. 19 which accords with the food scarcities of that time already detailed in Hag 1:10-11.

8 tn Heb “set your heart.” A similar expression occurs in v. 15 and at the beginning of this verse.