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13 Then Haggai gave the Lord's message to the people: “I will be with you—that is my promise.” 14 The Lord inspired everyone to work on the Temple: Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah; Joshua, the High Priest, and all the people who had returned from the exile.[a] They began working on the Temple of the Lord Almighty, their God, 15 on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month of the second year that Darius was emperor.

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Footnotes

  1. Haggai 1:14 who had returned from the exile; or who had not gone into exile.

13 Then Haggai,(A) the Lord’s messenger,(B) gave this message of the Lord to the people: “I am with(C) you,” declares the Lord. 14 So the Lord stirred up(D) the spirit of Zerubbabel(E) son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jozadak,(F) the high priest, and the spirit of the whole remnant(G) of the people. They came and began to work on the house of the Lord Almighty, their God, 15 on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month.(H)

The Promised Glory of the New House

In the second year of King Darius,(I)

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