Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Haggai 2:15
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Now consider carefully from this day forward: Before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the LORD,
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And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:
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Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in the LORD’s temple.
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And now, I pray you, consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of Jehovah.
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Haggai 2
13 So Haggai asked, “If one who is defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of these, does it become defiled?” “Yes, it becomes defiled,” the priests answered.
14 Then Haggai replied, “So it is with this people and this nation before Me, declares the LORD, and so it is with every work of their hands; whatever they offer there is defiled.
15 Now consider carefully from this day forward: Before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the LORD,
16 from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.
17 I struck you—all the work of your hands—with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to Me, declares the LORD.
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