## The Commission to Rebuild the Temple 

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In the second year of Darius the king, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of Yahweh came by the hand of Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, 

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"Thus says Yahweh of hosts, 'This people says, "The time has not come, _even_ the time for the house of Yahweh to be rebuilt."'" 

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Then the word of Yahweh came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying, 

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"Is it time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses while this house _lies_ waste?" 

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So now, thus says Yahweh of hosts, "Set your heart _to consider_ your ways! 

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You have sown much, but bring in little; _you_ eat, but _there is_ not _enough_ to be satisfied; _you_ drink, but _there is_ not _enough_ to become drunk; _you_ put on clothing, but no one is warm _enough_; and he who earns, earns wages _to put_ into a bag with holes." 

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Thus says Yahweh of hosts, "Set your heart _to consider_ your ways! 

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Go up to the mountains and bring wood and rebuild the house _of God_, that I may be pleased with it and be glorified," says Yahweh. 

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"_You_ look for much, but behold, _it comes_ to little; and you bring _it_ home, and I blow it _away_. Why?" declares Yahweh of hosts, "Because of My house which _lies_ waste, while each of you runs to his own house. 

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Therefore, because of you the sky has restrained its dew and the earth has restrained its produce. 

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And I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on men, on cattle, and on all the labor of your hands." 

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Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, listened to the voice of Yahweh their God and the words of Haggai the prophet, as Yahweh their God had sent him. And the people feared Yahweh. 

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Then Haggai, the messenger of Yahweh, spoke by the commissioned message of Yahweh to the people saying, "'I am with you,' declares Yahweh." 

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So Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, 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; and they came and did work on the house of Yahweh of hosts, their God, 

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on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month in the second year of Darius the king.