Hag 2:18 | NET2full | STEP | ‘ Think carefully about the past : from today , the twenty - fourth day of the ninth month, to the day work on the temple of the Lord was resumed , think about it .

Haggai 2:18

18 ‘Think carefully ^{▼▼tn Heb “set your heart.” A similar expression occurs in v. 15.} about the past: from today, the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, ^{▼▼sn The twenty-fourth day of the ninth month was Kislev 24 or December 18, 520. See v. 10. Here the reference is to “today,” the day the oracle is being delivered.} to the day work on the temple of the Lord was resumed, ^{▼▼sn The day work…was resumed. This does not refer to the initial founding of the Jerusalem temple in 536 b.c. but to the renewal of construction three months earlier (see 1:15). This is clear from the situation described in v. 19 which accords with the food scarcities of that time already detailed in Hag 1:10-11.} think about it. ^{▼▼tn Heb “set your heart.” A similar expression occurs in v. 15 and at the beginning of this verse.}