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Haggai 2:6 to Exodus 14:21

Text: Haggai 2:6

OT Text Referred to: Exodus 14:21

Subject: Divine shaking of sea and dry land

Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Reference Type: Echo

Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme

Anchor Text: Hag 2:6 — Yet Once More I Will Shake

Significance: Haggai 2:6 announces that God will "shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land" (הַיַּבָּשָׁה, hayyabbashah), echoing the Exodus vocabulary where God turned the sea into "dry land" (יַבָּשָׁה) at the Red Sea crossing (Exod 14:21). The shared term יַבָּשָׁה and the cosmic scope of God's intervention connect Haggai's eschatological shaking with the foundational redemptive act at the sea. By invoking Exodus imagery, Haggai frames the coming divine intervention for the second temple community as a new exodus-scale event, assuring the discouraged builders that the same God who shook the waters to deliver Israel will shake the nations to fill this house with glory.


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Text: Exodus 14:21

OT Text Referred to: Haggai 2:6

Subject: shake the heavens and dry land

Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Reference Type: Echo

Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme

Anchor Text: Hag 2:6 — Yet Once More I Will Shake

Significance: Exodus 14:21 describes the LORD driving back the sea with a strong east wind (רוּחַ קָדִים עַזָּה, ruach qadim azzah), mastering the natural elements to deliver Israel. Haggai 2:6 promises a cosmic escalation: "In a little while I will once more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land" (הַיַּבָּשָׁה, hayyabashah). Both texts present God controlling sea and dry land as acts of redemptive power, but Haggai expands the scope from a localized event at the Red Sea to a universal shaking of all creation. The verbal link through "sea" and "dry land" connects the exodus deliverance to the eschatological renewal Haggai envisions for the post-exilic community.