Haggai 1:15
“In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →The work begins on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
What Does Haggai 1:15 Mean?
The chapter closes as it opened, with a precise date. Just twenty-three days after Haggai's first word (v. 1), the people are at work. The speed of their response is itself a testimony—there was no long delay between hearing and doing once their hearts were stirred. The historian marks the day, for it was a day worth remembering.
Dates in Scripture often signal that real events turned on real moments of obedience. The people who had said ‘the time is not come’ now find that the time had arrived, and they meet it. There is encouragement here for any reader who has long postponed what God asks: the day of beginning can come quickly once the heart yields. What matters is not how long the ruins have stood, but that today the building starts.