Editing Book of Haggai (section)

== Synopsis ==
[[File:Leningrad-codex-13-twelve-minor-prophets.pdf|thumb|250px|The [[Leningrad Codex]] (AD. 1008) contains the complete Hebrew text of the Book of Haggai.]]
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Haggai's message is filled with an urgency for the people to proceed with the rebuilding of the [[Second Temple|second Jerusalem temple]]. Haggai attributes a recent drought to the people's refusal to rebuild the temple, which he sees as key to [[Jerusalem]]’s glory. The book ends with the prediction of the downfall of kingdoms, with one [[Zerubbabel]], governor of [[Kingdom of Judah|Judah]], as the Lord's chosen leader. The language here is not as finely wrought as in some other books of the minor prophets,{{Citation needed|date=May 2014}} yet the intent seems straightforward.

The first chapter contains the first address (2–11) and its effects (12–15).

The second chapter contains:
#The second prophecy (1–9), which was delivered a month after the first
#The third prophecy (10–19), delivered two months and three days after the second; and
#The fourth prophecy (20–23), delivered on the same day as the third.

These discourses are referred to in [[Book of Ezra|Ezra]] 5:1 and 6:14. (Compare Haggai 2:7, 8 and 22)
[[File:Synagogue Alkmaar 05.jpg|thumb|Text from Haggai 2:9 on a synagogue in [[Alkmaar]]: "The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house."]]
Haggai reports that three weeks after his first prophecy the rebuilding of the Temple began on September 7 521&nbsp;BC. "They came and began to work on the house of the LORD Almighty, their God, on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month in the second year of Darius the King." (Haggai 1:14–15) and the Book of Ezra indicates that it was finished on February 25 516&nbsp;BC "The Temple was completed on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius." (Ezra 6:15)