Text: Haggai 1:2
OT Text Referred to: Jeremiah 25:11
Subject: The time has not come (* see seventy years network)
Source: Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment
Significance: The people's claim in Haggai 1:2 that "the time has not yet come" to rebuild the LORD's house likely reflects a misapplication of Jeremiah's prophecy of seventy years of Babylonian servitude (Jer 25:11). Jeremiah declared that "this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years," and the returned exiles may have argued that the appointed period had not yet expired. Haggai's prophetic rebuke exposes this reasoning as self-serving procrastination, since the people had found time for their own paneled houses while God's house lay in ruins. The connection shows how the post-exilic community misread Jeremiah's timetable to justify neglecting their covenant obligations.
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Text: Jeremiah 25:11
OT Text Referred to: Haggai 1:2
Subject: time has not come
Source: Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment
Significance: Haggai 1:2 records the people's claim that "the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD," which may reflect a miscalculation or misapplication of Jeremiah's seventy-year prophecy (שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה, shiv'im shanah). If the people were counting from the first deportation (605 BC) or the temple's destruction (586 BC), they may have argued that the seventy years were not yet complete by Haggai's time (520 BC). Haggai counters this theological reasoning by rebuking their delay — whatever the seventy-year calculus, God's command to rebuild is now in effect. The connection shows how Jeremiah's specific time prophecy became a contested interpretive framework that post-exilic leaders had to navigate, with Haggai asserting prophetic authority over popular exegesis of Jeremiah's timeline.