13 Facts About Haggai

Haggai was a Hebrew prophet during the building of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, and one of the twelve minor prophets in the Hebrew Bible and the author of the Book of Haggai.

Haggai is known for his prophecy in 520 BCE, commanding the Jews to rebuild the Temple.

Scarcely anything is known of his personal history, with the book of Haggai offering no biographical details about his ancestry or anything else in his life outside the prophecies of 520 BCE.

Haggai is only mentioned in one other book of the Bible, the book of Ezra.

Haggai prophesied in late 520 BCE Jerusalem, about the people needing to complete building the Temple.

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Haggai claimed if the Temple was not built there would be poverty, famine and drought affecting the Jewish nation.

Haggai supported the officials of his time, specifically Zerubbabel, the governor, and Joshua the High Priest.

Persian Empire was growing weak, and Haggai saw time as an opportunity to restore the Davidic Kingdom.

Haggai believed that the Kingdom of David was able to rise and take back their part in Jewish issues.

Haggai's message was directed to the nobles and Zerubbabel, as he would be the first Davidic monarch restored.

Haggai saw this as important because the Kingdom would be an end to Jewish idol worship.

The Babylonian Talmud mentions a tradition concerning the prophet Haggai, saying that he gave instruction concerning three things: that it is not lawful for a man whose brother married his daughter to consummate a levirate marriage with one of his deceased brother's co-wives ; that Jews living in the regions of Ammon and Moab separate from their produce the poor man's tithe during the Sabbatical year; that they accept of proselytes from the peoples of Tadmor and from the people of Kardu.

Haggai is commemorated, in common with the other righteous persons of the Old Testament, on the Sunday of the Holy Fathers .