Adam Clarke's
Bible Commentary in 8 Volumes
Volume
4
The Book of the Prophet Haggai
Chapter
1
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Chronological Notes relative to this book Year from the Creation, according to Archbishop Usher, 3484. Year of the Julian Period, 4194. Year since the flood, 1828. Year from the vocation of Abram, 1301. Year since the first celebration of the Olympic games in Elis by the Idaei Dactyli, 934. Year since the foundation of the monarchy of the Israelites by the Divine appointment of Saul to the regal dignity, 576. Year from the foundation of the temple, 492. Year from the division of Solomons monarchy into the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, 456. Year since the re-establishment of the Olympic games at Elis by Lycurgus, Iphitus, and Cleosthenes, 365. Year since the conquest of Coroebus at Olympia, usually called the first Olympiad, 257. First year of the sixty-fifth Olympiad. Year from the building of Rome, according to the Varronian or generally received computation, 234. Year from the building of Rome, according to Cato and the Fasti Consulares, 233. Year from the building of Rome, according to Polybius the historian, 232. Year from the building of Rome, according to Fabius Pictor, 228. Year of the era of Nabonassar, 228. Year since the destruction of the kingdom of Israel by Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, 202. Year since the destruction of the kingdom of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, 68. Year since the destruction of the Chaldean empire by the Persians, 18. Year before the birth of Christ, 516. Year before the vulgar era of Christs nativity, 520. Cycle of the Sun, 22. Cycle of the Moon, 14. Second year of Darius I., king of Persia. Twenty-eighth year of Amyntas, king of Macedon. Seventh year of Demaratus, king of Lacedaemon, of the family of the Proclidae. Eleventh year of Cleomenes, king of Lacedaemon, of the family of the Eurysthenidae. Fifteenth year of Tarquinius Superbus, the last king of the Romans. This was about twelve years before the abolition of the regal government of the Romans by the expulsion of the Tarquins. Confucius, the celebrated Chinese philosopher, is supposed to have flourished about this time.
Notes on Chapter 1
Verse 1. In the sixth
month Called Elul by the Hebrews.
It was the
sixth month of the ecclesiastical year, and the last of the
civil year, and
answered to a part of our September.
Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel Who was son of
Jeconiah, king of
Judah, and of the family of David, and exercised the post of a
governor
among the people, but not over them, for both he and they were
under the
Persian government; but they were permitted to have Zerubbabel
for their
own governor, and Joshua for their high priest; and these
regulated all
matters relative to their peculiar political and ecclesiastical
government.
But it appears from Ezra, 5:3, that Tatnai, the governor on this
side the
river, had them under his cognizance. None of their own
governors was
absolute. The Persians permitted them to live under their own
laws and
civil regulations; but they always considered them as a colony,
over which
they had a continual superintendence.
Joshua the son of Josedech And son of Seraiah, who was
high priest in
the time of Zedekiah, and was carried into captivity by
Nebuchadnezzar, 1
Chronicles 6:15. But Seraiah was slain at Riblah, by order of
Nebuchadnezzar, 2 Kings 25:18-21.
Ye run every man unto his own house. To rebuild and
adorn it; and
Gods house is neglected!
He is called
I am with you,
saith the Lord. Here was high encouragement. What may
not a man do when God is his helper?
Verse 14. And the Lord
stirred up the spirit It is not
only necessary
that the judgment should be enlightened, but the soul must be
invigorated
by the Spirit of God, before any good work can be effectually
done.
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