Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Haggai 1:11
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11. I called —what the "heaven" and "earth," the second causes, were said to do ( :- ), being the visible instruments, Jehovah, in this verse, the invisible first cause, declares to be His doing. He "calls for" famine, c., as instruments of His wrath ( 2 Kings 8:1 Psalms 105:16 ). The contrast is striking between the prompt obedience of these material agencies, and the slothful disobedience of living men, His people. drought — Hebrew, Choreb, like in sound to Chareeb, "waste" ( Haggai 1:4 ; Haggai 1:9 ), said of God's house; implying the correspondence between the sin and its punishment. Ye have let My house be waste, and I will send on all that is yours a wasting drought. This would affect not merely the "corn," c., but also "men" and "cattle," who must perish in the absence of the "corn," &c., lost by the drought. labour of the hands —all the fruits of lands, gardens, and vineyards, obtained by labor of the hands ( Deuteronomy 28:33 Psalms 78:46 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-12" class="com-number"
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