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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Haggai 2:3

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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2:3 The former splendor belonged to Solomon’s Temple (1 Kgs 6:38), which some of the older people of Judah had seen in their youth before going into exile in Babylon. They wept when they saw the new foundation laid (Ezra 3:12-13), because it seemed like nothing at all by comparison.
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