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The
Book of Haggai is a book of the
Tanakh (
Hebrew Bible) and of the
Old Testament, written by the prophet
Haggai. It was written in
520 BC some 18 years after Cyrus had conquered Babylon and issued a decree in
538 BC allowing the captive Jews to return to Judea. He saw the restoration of the temple as necessary for the restoration of the religious practices and a sense of peoplehood after a long exile.
It consists of two brief, comprehensive chapters. The object of the prophet is generally urging the people to proceed with the rebuilding of the
second Jerusalem temple in
521 BC after the return of the deportees. Haggai attributes a recent drought to the peoples' refusal to rebuild the temple, which he sees as key to
Jerusalem’s glory. The book ends with the prediction of the downfall of kingdoms, with one
Zerubbabel, governor of
Judah, as the Lord’s chosen leader. The language here isn't as finely wrought as in some other books of the
minor prophets, yet the intent seems straightforward.
The first chapter first contains the first address (2-11) and its effects (12-15). The second chapter contains:
- The second prophecy (1-9), which was delivered a month after the first.
- The third prophecy (10-19), delivered two months and three days after the second; and
- The fourth prophecy (20-23), delivered on the same day as the third.
These discourses are referred to in
Ezra 5:1; 6:14;(Compare Haggai 2:7, 8, 22.)
Haggai reports that three weeks after his first prophecy, the rebuilding of the Temple began on
September 7,
521 BC. "They came and began to work on the house of the LORD Almighty, their God, on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month in the second year of King Darius.(Haggai 1:14-15) and the Book of Ezra indicates that it was finished on
February 25,
516 BC "The Temple was completed on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius." (Ezra 6:15)
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