SEV Biblia, Chapter 1:15
En el día veinticuatro del mes sexto, en el segundo año del rey Darío.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Haggai 1:15
Verse 15. In the four and twentieth day] Haggai received his commission on the first day of this month and by the twenty- fourth day he had so completely succeeded that he had the satisfaction to see the whole people engaged heartily in the Lord's work; they left their own houses to build that of the Lord. Here was a faithful reprover, and he found obedient ears; and the Lord's work was done, for the people had a mind to work.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 15. 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, ( 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 Zechariah 1:1,7) ( 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 “ 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 12-15 - The people returned to God in the way of duty. In attending to God' ministers, we must have respect to him that sent them. The word of the Lord has success, when by his grace he stirs up our spirits to compl with it. It is in the day of Divine power we are made willing. When God has work to be done, he will either find or make men fit to do it Every one helped, as his ability was; and this they did with a regar to the Lord as their God. Those who have lost time, need to redee time; and the longer we have loitered in folly, the more haste we should make. God met them in a way of mercy. Those who work for him have him with them; and if he be for us, who can be against us? Thi should stir us up to be diligent __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ביום 3117 עשׂרים 6242 וארבעה 702 לחדשׁ 2320 בשׁשׁי 8345 בשׁנת 8141 שׁתים 8147 לדריושׁ 1867 המלך׃ 4428
