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Haggai 2:9 ends with a promise of peace in the future temple. The Greek Septuagint translation adds to this promise by describing peace not only in the temple but also as a lasting possession for those who build it.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Haggai 2:9
Hebrew Bible
7 I will also shake up all the nations, and they will offer their treasures; then I will fill this temple with glory.” So the Lord of Heaven’s Armies has said. 8 “The silver and gold will be mine,” decrees the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. 9 “The future splendor of this temple will be greater than that of former times,” the Lord of Heaven’s Armies has declared. “And in this place I will give peace,” decrees the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. 10 On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month of Darius’ second year, the Lord’s message came to the prophet Haggai: 11 “This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies has said, ‘Ask the priests about the law.
Date: 500–401 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
LXX Haggai 2:9
Septuagint
7 and I will shake all nations, and the choice portions of all the nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, says the Lord Almighty. 8 Mine is the silver, and mine the gold, says the Lord Almighty. 9 For the glory of this house shall be great, the latter more than the former, says the Lord Almighty: and in this place I will give peace, says the Lord Almighty, even peace of soul for a possession to every one that builds, to raise up this temple. 10 On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Haggai the prophet, saying, 11 Thus says the Lord Almighty; Inquire now of the priests concerning the law, saying,
Date: 100–1 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... Occasionally, LXX pluses are confirmed by pre-Masoretic Hebrew texts: the uncharacteristic expansion in Hosea 13:4 (stressing creation; compare Amos 4:13) is attested in 4QXIIc, the smaller plus in Amos 1:3 has a Hebrew counterpart in 5QXIIAmos and the pluses in Nahum 1:14; 3:8 are perhaps present in 4QpNah. But usually, it is an open question whether or not substantial alterations, as distinct from minor adjustments for clarification or harmonization, are the work of the translator. In fact, substantial pluses are rare in XII; apart from Hosea 13:4, the most notable occur in Haggai 2:9, 14; Malachi 1:1 ..."
Jennifer M. Dines, “The Minor Prophets,” in The T&T Clark Companion to the Septuagint, ed. James K. Aitken, Bloomsbury Companions (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015), 442.
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