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Hag 1:9 — Ye looked for much, and, lo, [it came] to little; and when ye brought [it] home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that [is] waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Ye looked		"They had used all proper means in the cultivation of their lands, and had ""sown much;"" but when they rationally entertained the most sanguine expectations of a large increase, they were strangely disappointed; and even what they had brought home was unaccountably wasted, as if the LORD had ""blown upon it,"" and driven it away! And the reason was, because they neglected the temple, and left it in ruins, whilst they eagerly employed themselves in building and decorating their own houses; therefore they were visited by drought and famine, and by various diseases on man and beast. Hag 1:6; Hag 2:16,17; Isa 17:10,11; Mal 3:8-11"
blow upon it		or, blow it away. 2Sa 22:16; 2Ki 19:7; Isa 40:7; Mal 2:2
Why		Job 10:2; Psa 77:5-10
Because		Hag 1:4; Jos 7:10-15; 2Sa 21:1; Mat 10:37,38; 1Cr 11:30-32; Rev 2:4; Rev 3:19

Correlating Passages

Ye looked

	Hag 1:6	Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages [to put it] into a bag with holes.
	Hag 2:16	Since those [days] were, when [one] came to an heap of twenty [measures], there were [but] ten: when [one] came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty [vessels] out of the press, there were [but] twenty.
	Hag 2:17	I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye [turned] not to me, saith the LORD.
	Isa 17:10	Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
	Isa 17:11	In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: [but] the harvest [shall be] a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
	Mal 3:8	Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
	Mal 3:9	Ye [are] cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, [even] this whole nation.
	Mal 3:10	Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that [there shall] not [be room] enough [to receive it].
	Mal 3:11	And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.

blow upon it

	2Sa 22:16	And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
	2Ki 19:7	Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
	Isa 40:7	The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people [is] grass.
	Mal 2:2	If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay [it] to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay [it] to heart.

Why

	Job 10:2	I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
	Psa 77:5	I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
	Psa 77:6	I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
	Psa 77:7	Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
	Psa 77:8	Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth [his] promise fail for evermore?
	Psa 77:9	Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
	Psa 77:10	And I said, This [is] my infirmity: [but I will remember] the years of the right hand of the most High.

Because

	Hag 1:4	[Is it] time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house [lie] waste?
	Jos 7:10	And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?
	Jos 7:11	Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put [it] even among their own stuff.
	Jos 7:12	Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, [but] turned [their] backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.
	Jos 7:13	Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, [There is] an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.
	Jos 7:14	In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, [that] the tribe which the LORD taketh shall come according to the families [thereof]; and the family which the LORD shall take shall come by households; and the household which the LORD shall take shall come man by man.
	Jos 7:15	And it shall be, [that] he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel.
	2Sa 21:1	Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, [It is] for Saul, and for [his] bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
	Mat 10:37	He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
	Mat 10:38	And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
	1Cr 11:30	For this cause many [are] weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
	1Cr 11:31	For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
	1Cr 11:32	But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
	Rev 2:4	Nevertheless I have [somewhat] against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
	Rev 3:19	As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

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