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How long did Haggai speak for?
3 Months
Did he date his prophecies?
Yes
How many prophecies did he give?
5
What year did he prophecy + ref + actual year?
Second year of King Darius (Darius I)
Haggai 1:1
520 BC
Where did Haggai speak?
Slow rebuilt city in Jerusalem
What does Zerubbabel mean?
Seed of Babylon
Who had come back to Jerusalem?
50,000 (2/15 were priests), Zerubbabel, Joshua
Who were the Samaritans?
The Jews that had survived in Jerusalem through the exile and married outside Israel - half casts - and didn’t want them there.
Where is Babylon near?
Ur of the Chaldeans
What does Haggai mean?
My feast or Feast of the Lord
What were the 3 situations Haggai spoke into?
1 People abandoned God so God abandoned them, but they thought he abandoned them first!
2 Old people were discouraging - not as good as the temple was in my day!
3 People building the temple weren’t putting their lives right and so were desecrating it.
What were the dates of Haggais Prophecies?
1/6/2 24/6/2 21/7/2 24/9/2 24/9/2
When did King Darius reign?
September 522 BCE to
October 486 BCE (wiki)
When did the finances for the temple stop?
When Darius replaced Cyrus.
How soon after starting, and for how long did they stop building the temple?
2 years, then for 14 years!
