A Call to Build the House of the LORD
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In the second year of King Darius, on the first day of the sixth month,
the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel son
of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high prest:
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"You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little.
What you brought home, I blew away. Why?" declares the LORD Almighty.
"Because of my house, which remains a ruin,
while each of you is busy with his own house.
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on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month in the second year of King Darius.
