13 Then Haggai, God’s messenger, preached God’s Message to the people: “I am with you!” God’s Word.

14-15 This is how God got Zerubbabel, Joshua, and all the people moving—got them working on the Temple of God-of-the-Angel-Armies. This happened on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month in the second year of King Darius.

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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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