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John Gill's Exposition on Haggai 1:15
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, etc.] Or, “in the four and twentieth of the month, in the sixth”; in that sixth month before mentioned, (<370101>Haggai 1:1). On this day they came and worked; not the sixth from Tisri, for the Jews had two ways of beginning their years, which would have answered to part of February; and, therefore, chose by some interpreters as being a proper time to begin building; but no regard is had to the fitness of the season, but to the order of the Lord; but the sixth month from Nisan, and answers to part of August; for so the months are reckoned in the prophecy of Zechariah, who began to prophecy the same year as Haggai did; (see <380101>Zechariah 1:1,7) (<380701>Zechariah 7:1) this was three and twenty days after the prophecy was delivered out; during which time they might be employed in cutting of stones, and sawing and hewing of wood, as Jarchi suggests, and preparing for work in the temple: in the second year of Darius the king; (see Gill on “<370101>Haggai 1:1”). Here some begin a new chapter, but wrongly; since, if these words do not belong to the preceding, there would be a contradiction in joining them with the beginning of the next.
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