person
Haggai
חַגַּי
Haggai, a prophet during the post-exilic period, urged the people to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem.
- verses
- 11
- first named
- Ezra 5:1
- last named
- Haggai 2:20
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Prophet
Description
Who was Haggai?
Haggai was a prophet who lived in Jerusalem during the post-exilic period, after the Jews had returned from Babylonian captivity. He is mentioned in the book bearing his name and in Ezr.5.1 and Ezr.6.14. Haggai, along with the prophet Zechariah, played a crucial role in encouraging the people to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem, which had been destroyed by the Babylonians. In the second year of King Darius of Persia, Haggai delivered a series of messages to the governor of Judah, Zerubbabel, and the high priest, Joshua, urging them to resume the work on the temple (Hag.1.1, 3, 12). He confronted the people about their misplaced priorities, as they had focused on building their own houses while neglecting the house of God (Hag.1.4, 9). Haggai's prophecies also included messages of hope, assuring the people that God would bless them and that the glory of the new temple would surpass that of the former (Hag.2.9). As a result of Haggai's exhortations, the people obeyed, and the work on the temple resumed (Hag.1.12-15). The temple was eventually completed in the sixth year of King Darius (Ezr.6.14-15).
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The pattern
Where Haggai is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
11 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in Ezra (2) and Haggai (9).
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Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 11, across 2 books.
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Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Ezra 5Haggai prophesied to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel.
- Ezra 6Haggai prophesied while the Jewish elders built and prospered.
- Haggai 1Haggai delivered the LORD’s message to Zerubbabel, Joshua, and the people.
- Haggai 2Haggai carries the LORD’s words, questions the priests, and explains the harvest’s humiliations.
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