King James Version
Haggai 2:15 in the King James Version says “And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the L...” — study this verse from Haggai chapter 2 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:”
Haggai 2:15 · King James Version
Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.
Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.
And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:
Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.
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“And now I pray you consider”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
'i pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the imperative or future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction
“from this day”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
“and upward”
H4605properly,the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from the top, etc
“And now I pray you consider”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
“of the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
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