Haggai Bible Study Resources

Study questions, maps, charts, outlines, and links to help you study the Old Testament book of Haggai.

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Basics

• Author: The Prophet Haggai, written in 520 BC while Zerubbabel was governor.
• Haggai is know only from this book and from Ezra 5:1 and Ezra 6:14.
• Haggai returned to Jerusalem from Babylon with the remnant that returned with Zerubbabel.
• Haggai 2:3 may suggest that he had seen the glory of Solomon’s temple before it was destroyed, making him at least 70 years of age when writing his prophecy.
• Both Haggai and Zechariah urged the people to rebuild the temple.
• At the time Haggai prophecies it had been 15 years since the initial work on rebuilding the temple had begun.
• Zerubbabel was an ancestor of both Joseph (Matthew 1:13) and Mary (Luke 3:27).
• The occasion of each of Haggai’s 4 prophecies is clearly specified (1:1; 2:1; 2:10; 2:20), occurring within a 4 month span in the second year (ca. 520 B.C.) of Persian king Darius (ca. 521–486 B.C.).

Chronology

• 538 – Zerubbabel and first return of the exiles ( Ezra 1-6).
• 536 BC – Work on the temple begins (Ezra 3:8).
• 530-520 BC – Work on the temple stops (Ezra 4:24).
• 520 BC – Work on the temple resumes (Ezra 5:2).
• 520 BC – Events of the book of Haggai
• 520-518 BC – Events of Zechariah 1-8.
• 516 BC – Work on the temple is completed.

Genre: Understanding Prophecy

Section 1: Background

Background

Introduction to the Prophets

Introduction to the Exile & Return

Chart: Bible History at a glance

Chronology Ezra-Nehemiah

Blue Letter Bible: Old Testament Timeline

Hebrew Calendar

Bible Atlas: Persia

Bible Atlas: Babylon

Bible Atlas: Jerusalem

Minor Prophets Quotes in the NT

Ray C Stedman: Overview of the Book

John MacArthur: Author, Date, Background

BibleHistory.com: List of the Kings of Persia

JVernon McGee: Haggai – Introductory Notes, Outlines

David Malick (Bible.org): An Introduction to the Book of Haggai

ESV: Introduction to Haggai

ESV: The Global Message of Haggai

NIV: Introduction to the Minor Prophets

NIV: An Introduction to Haggai

William Orr: Keys to Haggai

Arend Remmers: The Prophet Haggai (Overview)

Charles Swindoll: The Prophet Haggai

Section 2: Maps

Section 3: Key Words

Key Words

LORD (24x) – Strong’s H3068 in Hag 1:1; Hag 1:2; Hag 1:3; Hag 1:5; Hag 1:7; Hag 1:8; Hag 1:9; Hag 1:12; Hag 1:13; Hag 1:14; Hag 2:1; Hag 2:4; Hag 2:6; Hag 2:7; Hag 2:8; Hag 2:9; Hag 2:10; Hag 2:11; Hag 2:14; Hag 2:15; Hag 2:17; Hag 2:18; Hag 2:20; Hag 2:23.

hosts (Lord of Hosts; 12x) – Strong’s H6635 in Hag 1:2; Hag 1:5; Hag 1:7; Hag 1:9; Hag 1:14; Hag 2:4; Hag 2:6; Hag 2:7; Hag 2:8; Hag 2:9; Hag 2:11; Hag 2:23.

word (of the Lord came; 5x) – Strong’s H1697 in Hag 1:1; Hag 1:3; Hag 2:1; Hag 2:10; Hag 2:20.

rebuilt/rebuild (2x) – Strong’s H1129 in Hag 1:2; Hag 1:8.

consider (4x) – Strong’s H7760 in Hag 1:5; Hag 1:7; Hag 2:15; Hag 2:18.

house (6x) – Strong’s H1004 in Hag 1:2; Hag 1:4; Hag 1:9; Hag 1:14; Hag 2:7; Hag 2:9.

temple (4x) – Strong’s H1004 in Hag 1:8; Hag 2:3; Strong’s H1964 in Hag 2:15; Hag 2:18.

glory (3x) – Strong’s H3519b in Hag 2:3; Hag 2:7; Hag 2:9.

shake (3x) – Strong’s H7493 in Hag 2:6; Hag 2:7; Hag 2:21.

Section 4: Encyclopedias

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Baker’s Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology: Haggai, Theology Of

American Tract Society: Haggai

Bridgeway Bible Dictionary: Haggai

Easton’s Bible Dictionary: Haggai, Book Of; Haggai

Fausset Bible Dictionary: Haggai, the Book Of; Haggai

Holman Bible Dictionary: Haggai

Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible: Haggai

Kitto’s Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature: Haggai

Morrish Bible Dictionary: Haggai

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Haggai

McClintock and Strong: Haggai, Prophecy Of; Haggai

The Nuttall Encyclopedia: Haggai

The Jewish Encyclopedia: Haggai, Book Of; Haggai

Hitchcock’s Bible names: Haggai means feast; solemnity

Section 5: Commentaries

Commentaries & Study Bibles

Ligionier.org Top 5 Commentaries: Haggai

Tim Challies Best Commentaries:

Commentary Reviews: Haggai

Walter Kaiser – Preacher’s Commentary

Biblehub Commentaries: Haggai

Calvin’s Commentary on the Bible: Haggai

Matthew Henry: Haggai

Albert Barnes Notes: Haggai

Reformation Study Bible Notes: Haggai

Geneva Study Bible: Haggai

Precept Austin Commentaries & Sermons: Haggai

Section 6: Articles

Articles

Haggai Master Rhetorician — M.J. Boda

The Shaking Of The Nations An Eschatological View — John A. Kessler

Literary Connectors And A Haggai-Zechariah-Malachi Corpus — Ronald W. Pierce

A Thematic Development Of The Haggai-Zechariah-Malachi Corpus –Ronald W Pierce

Impulse And Design In The Book Of Haggai — By Duane L. Christensen

The Theological Basis for the Prohibition of Images in the Old Testament – Edward M Curtis

Composition, Rhetoric and Theology in Haggai 1:1-11 (Note: Jewish perspective) – Elie Assis

The Building of the Second Temple- by J. Stafford Wright

Greg Herrick: Conceptions of Davidic Hope in Ezekiel, Zechariah, Haggai, and the Chronicles

JHampton Keathley: The Minor Prophets

Section 7: Got Questions

GotQuestions.org

Book of Haggai – Bible Survey

Why were the Israelites not rebuilding the temple?

Is it wrong to live in nice houses?

Does God use frustrations in life to awaken and/or punish us?

Who is the desired of all nations?

What does it mean that Zerubbabel was the LORD’s signet ring?

What was Zerubbabel’s temple/the second temple?

What are the Major Prophets and Minor Prophets?

Section 8: Next

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Series: Resources by Book

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