The name Haggai means "my feast"; in anticipation of the joyous return from exile. He probably was one of the Jewish exiles (of the tribes Judah, Benjamin, and Levi) who returned under Zerubbabel, the civil head of the people, and Joshua, the high priest, 536 B.C. They pretended that as the prophecy of the seventy years applied to the temple as well as to the captivity in Babylon (Haggai 1:2 year of it; so that, the proper time not having yet arrived, so they devoted themselves to building splendid mansions for themselves. Haggai and Zechariah were commissioned by Jehovah (Haggai 1:1 B.C., sixteen years after the return under Zerubbabel, to stir them from their selfishness to resume the work which for fourteen years had been suspended. Hagg
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