Text: Haggai 1:2
OT Text Referred to: Jeremiah 25:12
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: Jeremiah 25:12 promises that "when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon," signaling that the exile has a divinely fixed endpoint. The returned exiles in Haggai 1:2 invoke the temporal framework of Jeremiah's seventy-year prophecy to argue that "the time has not yet come" for temple rebuilding. Haggai challenges this appeal by showing that God's promised restoration requires the people's active obedience, not passive waiting—the seventy years concerned Babylon's punishment, not a reason to defer rebuilding. The allusion reveals a community using prophetic chronology as a pretext for spiritual complacency.
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Text: Jeremiah 25:12
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: The people's claim in Haggai 1:2 — "the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD" — likely reflects an appeal to Jeremiah 25:12's seventy-year timeline, with the community debating whether the prophesied period had elapsed. Jeremiah 25:12 specifically promises that "when seventy years are complete," God will act; the returned exiles may have argued the completion point was still future. Haggai prophetically overrides this excuse, asserting that God's command to rebuild takes priority over their chronological calculations. The connection illustrates the tension between prophetic chronology and prophetic authority in the post-exilic period — the written word of Jeremiah required a living prophetic voice (Haggai) to properly interpret and apply.