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Haggai 2:8-10
New English Translation
Haggai 2:8-10
New English Translation
8 “The silver and gold will be mine,” decrees the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. 9 “The future splendor of this temple will be greater than that of former times,”[a] the Lord of Heaven’s Armies has declared. “And in this place I will give peace,” decrees the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.[b]
The Promised Blessing
10 On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month of Darius’ second year,[c] the Lord’s message came to the prophet Haggai:[d]
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- Haggai 2:9 tn Heb “greater will be the latter splendor of this house than the former”; NAB “greater will be the future glory.”
- Haggai 2:9 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 (yerushalayim) there will be שָׁלוֹם (shalom).
- Haggai 2:10 sn The twenty-fourth day of the ninth month of Darius’ second year was Kislev 24 or December 18, 520 b.c.
- Haggai 2:10 sn This Hebrew expression is slightly different from the one in 1:1, 3; 2:1.
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