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In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,
How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.
When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
Hath not my hand made all these things?
And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him.
So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.
And Absalom, and all the people the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
And Bath-sheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And the king said, What wouldest thou?
Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.
And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.
And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.
Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast also spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O LORD God.
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
