In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, came the word of Jehovah by the prophet Haggai unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,

And the word of Jehovah came by Haggai the prophet, saying,

And Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked at the house of Jehovah of hosts, their God,

In the seventh month, on the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of Jehovah by the prophet Haggai, saying,

The word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, and my Spirit, remain among you: fear ye not.

On the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet, saying,

before those days were, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the vat to draw out fifty press-measures, there were but twenty.

And the word of Jehovah came the second time unto Haggai on the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,