Haggai 1:2
English Standard Version
2 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the Lord.”
Read full chapter
Nehemiah 4:10
English Standard Version
10 In Judah it was said,[a] “The strength of those who bear the burdens is failing. There is too much rubble. By ourselves we will not be able to rebuild the wall.”
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Nehemiah 4:10 Hebrew Judah said
Ezra 4:23-5:2
English Standard Version
23 Then, when the copy of King Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their associates, they went in haste to the Jews at Jerusalem and by force and power made them cease. 24 Then the work on the house of God that is in Jerusalem stopped, and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
Rebuilding Begins Anew
5 Now the prophets, (A)Haggai and (B)Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel who was over them. 2 (C)Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and (D)Jeshua the son of Jozadak arose and began to rebuild the house of God that is in Jerusalem, and the prophets of God were (E)with them, supporting them.
Ecclesiastes 11:4
English Standard Version
4 He who observes the wind will not sow,
and he who regards the clouds will not reap.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
English Standard Version
10 Whatever your hand finds to do, (A)do it with your might,[a] (B)for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Ecclesiastes 9:10 Or finds to do with your might, do it
Numbers 13:31
English Standard Version
31 (A)Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.”
Read full chapter
Proverbs 29:25
English Standard Version
25 (A)The fear of man lays a snare,
but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.
Proverbs 26:13-16
English Standard Version
13 (A)The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road!
There is a lion in the streets!”
14 As a door turns on its hinges,
so does a sluggard on his bed.
15 (B)The sluggard buries his hand in the dish;
it wears him out to bring it back to his mouth.
16 The sluggard is (C)wiser in his own eyes
(D)than seven men who can answer sensibly.
Proverbs 22:13
English Standard Version
13 (A)The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside!
I shall be killed in the streets!”
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
Bible Gateway Recommends
