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An Exegetical Commentary - Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi is unavailable, but you can change that!

The books of Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi are particularly relevant and beneficial to modern Christians, for they can see in them the covenant faithfulness of God to His ancient people--a faithfulness exhibited in the coming of Jesus Christ--and they can take heart in the realization that the God who restored Israel long ago can also restore them in times of spiritual decline and personal...

10 Concluding Oracle (6:9-15) A. The Selection of the Priest (6:9–12a) That this section is cast in the literary genre of oracle is accepted by scholarship in general, but how it relates to its larger literary context is a matter of some debate. The subject matter is so different from vision eight (6:1–8), which it immediately follows, that it cannot be an oracular response to that vision specifically. Yet the peace and sovereignty achieved by the chariots of that vision are quite compatible with
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