Text: Haggai 1:2
OT Text Referred to: Jeremiah 29:10
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 29:10 promises that "when Babylon's seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place," providing the exiles with hope of return. The people's objection in Haggai 1:2 that "the time has not yet come" likely invokes this very promise, treating Jeremiah's seventy-year timeline as incomplete. Yet Haggai's context makes clear that the return has already occurred—the exiles are back in the land—so the "time" for rebuilding has indeed arrived. The allusion exposes how the community selectively cited Jeremiah's hopeful prophecy while ignoring its implicit call to rebuild the covenant relationship with Yahweh upon their return.