That which the whole world sighed and mourned for, knowingly or unknowingly, light to disperse its darkness, liberty from its spiritual slavery, restoration from its degradation, could not come to us without some one, who should impart it to us. Their present was dark; their future was darker still. The world had been disturbed by Alexander and by the Romans, yet peace then prevailed. For "He shall save His people from their sins." R. Akiba, whom they accounted "the first oracle of his time, the first and greatest guardian of the tradition and old law," of whom they said, that "God revealed to him things unknown to Moses," was induced by this prophecy to acknowledge the impostor Bar-cochab, to the destruction of himself and of the most eminent of his time; fulfilling our Lord's words John 5:43, "I am come in My fathers name, and ye receive Me not; if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. What made Him the Desire of all nations? But when two nouns stand together, of which one is governed by the other, the verb agrees sometimes in number with the latter, though it really has the former as its nominative -, i.e., the Hebrew "come" is made in number to agree with "nations," though really agreeing with "the desire." It is not merely a figurative representation of symbol, however, of great political agitations, but is quite as real as the shaking of the nations, and not merely follows this and is caused by it, but also precedes it and goes side by side with it, and only in its completion does it form the conclusion to the whole of the shaking of the world. The Jews before the destruction of Jerusalem all expected Messiah would appear in the second temple. With glory, of my presence, preaching, healing, and comforting, saith the Messiah, the King of glory, who entered these everlasting doors, Psalms 24:7,8. Would we desire a mighty Saviour? Haggai 2:6-9 The Desire of the Nations . Besides, Messiah may be described as realizing in Himself at His coming "the desires (the noun expressing collectively the plural) of all nations:" whence the verb is plural. 9 ‘The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house,’ says the Lord Almighty. Moore, etc., translate, 'the beauty,' or "the desirable things (the precious gifts) of all nations shall come" (Isaiah 60:5; Isaiah 60:11; Isaiah 61:6 ). Long for Jesus! It shall have a claim to celebrity unrivalled even in the palmiest days of olden time, when Jehovah shall turn the attention of all nations to His sacred place, as predicted in Haggai 2:6-7. However richly any building might be overlaid with gold, no one could say that it is filled with it. He that was the brightness of his father's glory, who is the glory of the church, appeared in this second temple. He is manna, “containing in Him all sweetness and pleasurable delight.” Thirstest thou? The second Temple was connected with "grace", not "glory", and was followed by wars, not peace (Matthew 10:34; Matthew 24:6-8. On the other hand, the objection offered by Koehler, that that shaking did not extend beyond Sinai and the Sinaitic region, either according to the historical account in Exodus 19:16-18, or the poetical descriptions in Judges 5:4-5, and Psalm 68:8-9, is incorrect. Art thou sick? Chemdath haggōyı̄m is therefore the valuable possessions of the heathen, or according to Haggai 2:8 their gold and silver, or their treasures and riches; not the best among the heathen (Theod. Bp. This was 587 B.C. He that was the brightness of his Father’s glory, who is the glory of the church, appeareth in this second temple. He is the sweetness of souls, the joy and jubilee of Angels. He brings these objections to applying “the desire of all nations” to Messiah: (1) The Hebrew means the quality, not the thing desired, namely, its desirableness or beauty, But the abstract is often put for the concrete. Haggai was a post-exile returnee to the land of Israel whose main ministry was to encourage the people to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem and to let them know that God was with them and would help them. Chandler labors to vindicate the present translation; but he makes rash assertions, and is abandoned by the Hebrew text. Haggai 1:9 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] Haggai 1:9, NIV: "You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. Here it agrees with "nations" in number, but with the object desired in reality. The impulse did not cease even after its destruction. This is a difficult place if understood of a person: but חמדת chemdath, desire, cannot well agree with באו bau, they shall come. He is the well of "living water," refreshing, so that thou shouldest thirst no more. So Isaiah Isa 26:8-9, "The desire of our soul is to Thy Name and to the remembrance of Thee: with my soul have I desired Thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me, will I seek Thee early." 2:7 All nations - Which was literally fulfilled in the overthrow of the Persian monarchy by the Grecians, in the civil wars, and succeeding troubles among Alexander's successors, the growth of the Roman power by subduing their neighbours, and their dissentions and home - bred wars. Long for Jesus! Isaiah 60:5; Zechariah 14:14). and his sufficiency to save them, who was to be the light of the Gentiles as well as the glory of his people Israel. The verb is plural: hence some would refer it to the treasures of "silver and gold" of Haggai 2:8. Haggai 1:9, ESV: "You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. The Jews, who rejected our Lord whom Haggai predicted, still were convinced that the prediction must be fulfilled before the destruction of the second temple. Call on Jesus! "He is the King of glory." This refers to the future millennial Sanctuary of Ezekiel (App-88), as it follows after the great shaking of this verse and Revelation 6:12-17. And will not the soul, in which he takes up his residence, be transformed [Note: Isaiah 55:13.]? John Trapp Complete Commentary. And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts. Commentary on Haggai 1:15b-2:9 View Bible Text . This glory could be the wealth that the nations will bring to it (cf. Behold the grace, in his treatment of the adulterous woman [Note: John 8:11.]! They are yearning for solutions, wisdom, power, understanding, vision, and love, and He is all those things. Some English translations have "the desire of all nations will come." “The glory of Lebanon will come to you, the juniper, the fir and the cypress together, to adorn my sanctuary; and I will glorify the place for my feet. It is God‘s word, at once collectively and individually, which was to the Psalmist so sweet. There is a Desire of all nations; something all human beings are vaguely longing for which would put them right. He is “the Angel of great counsel.” Art thou ignorant and erring? Ver. About forty years after his death it was utterly demolished.]. To encourage them to complete the structure, the prophet was sent to declare, that, however inferior this should be to the former in point of magnificence, it should exceed that in glory; for that the Messiah himself should adorn it with his own personal appearance. ].”, He more than supplied all those things which were wanting in this temple—, [Though many of the sacred vessels were restored to the Jews by Cyrus, there was much that was irrecoverably lost. Herod doubtless thought to advance his own claims on the Jewish people by his material adorning of the temple; yet, although mankind do covet gold and silver, few could seriously think that, while a pagan immoral but observant poet could speak of “gold undiscovered and so better placed,” or our own of the “pale and common drudge ‹Tween man and man,” a Hebrew prophet could recognize gold and silver as “the desire of all nations.” Rabbi Akiba and Jerome‘s Jewish teachers, after our Lord came, felt no difficulty in understanding it of a person. "Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths." Since the words can only mean "the Desire of all nations," he or that which all nations long for, the construction of the words does not affect the meaning. Compare Isaiah 60:5, where the words, "the possessions (riches) of the heathen (chēl gōyı̄m) will come to thee," i.e., be brought to Jerusalem, express the same thought; also Isaiah 60:11. as a consequence of the shaking of the nations. ], [Wherever Christ dwells, he imparts a glory. Aggée 2:7 Interlinéaire • Aggée 2:7 Multilingue • Hageo 2:7 Espagnol • Aggée 2:7 Français • Haggai 2:7 Allemand • Aggée 2:7 Chinois • Haggai 2:7 Anglais • Bible Apps • Bible Hub Version Louis Segond 1910 La Bible David Martin 1744 Darby Bible courtesy of CCEL.org. Hence Cocc., Mark, and others, have taken chemdath as the accusative of direction: "that they (sc., the nations) may come to the desire of all nations - namely, to Christ." And I will shake all nations] First, by the civil wars between the Triumviri, not long before Christ’s incarnation. The shaking of the heaven and the earth, i.e., of the universe, is closely connected with the shaking of all nations. iv., p. 312; G. Huntington, Sermons for the Holy Seasons of the Church, p. 1; G. Brooks, Outlines of Sermons, p. 408. Once Christ was the Desire of all nations, even though when He came unto His own His own received Him not, and was in very truth despised and rejected of men. The gospel (saith Forbes on Revelation 14:6) hath three degrees of operation in the hearts of men. What you brought home, I blew away. God foretold of old; “Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are not a people: by a foolish nation I will anger you. The Septuagint reads "the elect of all the nations". 520 during the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem (B.C. The Jews before the destruction of Jerusalem all expected Messiah would appear in the second temple. Remorse they might know; despair might haunt them: but of the peace and consolations of a faithful follower of Jesus they had never tasted. [Note: Charles L. Feinberg, " Haggai," in The Wycliffe Bible Commentary, p893.]. But Vulgate confirms English Version. He whom they longed for, either through the knowledge of Him spread by the Jews in their dispersion, or mutely by the aching craving of the human heart, longing for the restoration from its decay. In Him thou wilt find all good; out of Him, all evil, all misery. The previous shaking shall cause the yearning “desire” for the Prince of peace. It is a great thing, if a sorrowful too, about the human heart, that it cannot be satisfied. All are puzzled with it. fill this house with glory—(Hag 2:9). Yet the attempt of the Jewish and pagan historian to wrest it to Vespasian, shows how great must have been the influence of the expectation, which they attempted to turn aside. Ours is the last twilight of the world. ; accords with the translation, “the choice things of all nations” shall be brought in. (5) the Septuagint and Syriac versions agree with Moore‘s translation. We’ll read that. It took four thousand years to make men feel their want of a Saviour; it has taken but half that time to make one moiety of those who, nevertheless, call themselves by His name, to live in practical unbelief; and the other moiety to regard His second coming with terror, and not with joy. 520-516) after the Babylonian Exile. This longing increased as the time drew near, when Christ should come. The Lord also promised to fill the temple with glory. Art thou ambitious of honors? Dukes, Christian World Pulpit, vol. He brings these objections to applying "the Desire of all nations" to Messiah. Long for Jesus! But if the shaking of heaven and earth effects a violent breaking up of the existing condition of the universe, the shaking of all nations can only be one by which an end is put to the existing condition of the world of nations, by means of great political convulsions, and indeed, according to the explanation given in Haggai 2:22, by the Lord's overthrowing the throne of the kingdoms, annihilating their power, and destroying their materials of war, so that one falls by the sword of the other, that is to say, by wars and revolutions, by which the might of the heathen world is broken and annihilated. The first had a fulness of glory in its magnificent structure, rich ornaments, and costly sacrifices, but this was a worldly glory; that which is here promised is a heavenly glory from the presence of Christ in it. Fix in us Thy humble home. He is the sweetness of souls, the joy and jubilee of Angels. All nature acknowledged the power of Jesus Christ, and the world was reformed. And the desire of all nations shall come.—Haggai 2:7. Clarke's Haggai 2:7 Bible Commentary And the Desire of all nations shall come - The present Hebrew text is as follows: ובאו חמדת כל הגוים. For earthquakes and movements of the powers of heaven are heralds and attendants of the coming of the Lord to judgment upon the whole earth, through which not only the outward form of the existing world is altered, but the present world itself will finally be reduced to ruins (Isaiah 24:18-20), and out of the world thus perishing there are to be created a new heaven and a new earth (Isaiah 65:17; Isaiah 66:22; 2 Peter 3:10-13). So in Song of Solomon 5:16, “He is altogether lovely,” in the Hebrew the same word as here, “all desires,” that is, altogether desirable, or the object of desires. Here he is widely mistaken, for it is used of days perpetually; and of the ark, 2 Samuel 6:9; and of mounts coming against Jerusalem, Jeremiah 32:24; and of trees coming to adorn the temple, Isaiah 60:13; and of silver and gold coming into the temple, Joshua 6:19; and Jeremiah 6:20, Why doth incense come to me? "It is well to remember ... that from earliest days the majority of Christian interpreters followed the Jewish tradition in referring the passage to the coming of Israel"s Messiah. The gold upon the walls, even had the second temple been adorned like the first did not fill the temple of Solomon. Say then with Francis, ‹My Jesus, my love and my all!‘ O Good Jesus, burst the cataract of Thy love, that its streams, yea seas, may flow down upon us, yea, inebriate and overwhelm us.”. The Roman biographer attests the existence of this expectation, not among the Jews only, but in the East; this was quickened doubtless among the pagan by the Jewish Sibylline book, in that, amid the expectations of one sent from heaven, who should found a kingdom of righteousness, which the writer drew from the Hebrew prophets, he inserted denunciations of temporal vengeance upon the Romans, which Easterns would share. A building is filled with what it contains; a mint or treasure-house may be filled with gold: the temple of God was "filled," we are told, with "the glory of the Lord." Luke 12:51). But the plural בּאוּ is hardly reconcilable with this. Sigh for Jesus! 2, ad Uxorem et Filiam to wives and daughters). Here it is God Himself who speaks; so He says not, "the glory of the Lord," but, "I will fill the house with glory," glory which was His to give, which came from Himself. ., pp452-53; Taylor, p161-65.] Wishest thou for consolation and joy? Haggai 2:7–9 7 And I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and p I will fill this house with glory, says the Lord of hosts. He is "the Holy of holies;" He "is everlasting Righteousness," justifying and sanctifying all who believe and hope in Him. Perhaps the Lord was deliberately ambiguous and had both things in mind: the wealth of the nations and Messiah. ii., p. 143. However richly any building might be overlaid with gold, no one could say that it is filled with it. Ask Jesus; He is "the way, the truth and the life." Therefore, this portion of Haggai’s prediction is yet unfulfilled. Haggai himself, though a prophet, must ask the priests concerning the law. The Roman biographer attests the existence of this expectation, not among the Jews only, but in the East ; this was quickened doubtless among the pagan by the Jewish Sibylline book, in that, amid the expectations of one sent from heaven, who should found a kingdom of righteousness, which the writer drew from the Hebrew prophets, he inserted denunciations of temporal vengeance upon the Romans, which Easterns would share. Haggai 2:5-9 Commentary; SERMON BIBLE COMMENTARY. Go to Jesus. And the desire of all nations shall come] That is, Christ, for so the apostle expoundeth it, Hebrews 12:25-26. 8 q The … means years Before Christ came to earth.) Seekest thou wealth? Since that time they invent various forced and false interpretations of such plain Messianic prophecies. MANKIND are apt to imagine that God is pleased with what is grand and magnificent in their eyes; hence the many splendid edifices that have been raised to his honour: but a contrite heart is a more acceptable residence for God than even the temple of Solomon itself [Note: Isaiah 66:1-2.]. So also early Jewish Rabbis before Jerome‘s time. So Paul sums up all the truths and gifts of the Gospel, all which God shadowed out in the law and had given us in Christ, under the name of "the good things to come." The second effect is the voice of thunder, which brings not only wonder, but fear. It is true that some learned men suppose that חמדות chemdoth, desirable things, may have been the original reading: but this is supported by no MS., nor is באו found in the singular number in any. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary, Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, And the Desire of all nations shall come -, And the desire of all nations shall come -, and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts. ii., p. 357, vol. As the first temple was filled with the cloud of glory, the symbol of God (1Ki 8:11; 2Ch 5:14), so this second temple was filled with the "glory" of God (Joh 1:14) veiled in the flesh (as it were in the cloud) at Christ's first coming, when He entered it and performed miracles there (Mt 21:12-14); but that "glory" is to be revealed at His second coming, as this prophecy in its ulterior reference foretells (Mal 3:1). 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