The People’s Obedience

12 (A)Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the Lord their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the Lord their God had sent him; and the people feared the presence of the Lord.

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10 “Who among you fears the Lord?
Who obeys the voice of His Servant?
Who (A)walks in darkness
And has no light?
(B)Let him trust in the name of the Lord
And rely upon his God.

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14 So (A)the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, (B)governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; (C)and they came and worked on the house of the Lord of hosts, their God,

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(A)The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge,
But fools despise wisdom and instruction.

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The Blessed State of the Righteous

112 Praise[a] the Lord!

Blessed is the man who fears the Lord,
Who (A)delights greatly in His commandments.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 112:1 Heb. Hallelujah

So (A)Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of [a]Jozadak rose up and began to build the house of God which is in Jerusalem; and (B)the prophets of God were with them, helping them.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 5:2 Jehozadak, 1 Chr. 6:14

“Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying:

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13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:

(A)Fear God and keep His commandments,
For this is man’s all.

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28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we [a]may (A)serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 12:28 M omits may

Their Conversion

13 For this reason we also thank God (A)without ceasing, because when you (B)received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it (C)not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively (D)works in you who believe. 14 For you, brethren, became imitators (E)of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus. For (F)you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, just as they did from the Judeans,

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For (A)our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power, (B)and in the Holy Spirit (C)and in much assurance, as you know what kind of men we were among you for your sake.

And (D)you became followers of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, (E)with joy of the Holy Spirit,

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which has come to you, (A)as it has also in all the world, and (B)is bringing forth [a]fruit, as it is also among you since the day you heard and knew (C)the grace of God in truth;

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 1:6 NU, M add and growing

The Church Prospers

31 (A)Then the [a]churches throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and were (B)edified.[b] And walking in the (C)fear of the Lord and in the (D)comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were (E)multiplied.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 9:31 NU church . . . was
  2. Acts 9:31 built up

The Command to Build God’s House(A)

In (B)the second year of King Darius, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by (C)Haggai the prophet to (D)Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to (E)Joshua the son of (F)Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,

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10 “For (A)as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven,
And do not return there,
But water the earth,
And make it bring forth and bud,
That it may give seed to the sower
And bread to the eater,
11 (B)So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
It shall not return to Me [a]void,
But it shall accomplish what I please,
And it shall (C)prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 55:11 empty, without fruit

12 (A)Gather the people together, men and women and little ones, and the stranger who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the Lord your God and carefully observe all the words of this law,

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12 And He said, (A)“Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for (B)now I know that you fear God, since you have not (C)withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”

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