Matthew Poole and continuators on Haggai 1:4

4 Is it time for you , O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses , and this house lie waste .

You think it full time to build your own houses, you judge it seasonable enough to lay out much cost on adorning them, what pretence can you make that 'tis not seasonable to build my house?

Jews who were by a King (that knew not your God) sent to build my house, you unthankful and forgetful ones.

To settle your selves securely and for continuance with stateliness.

Arched and with Cedar Wainscote, curiously carved and covered, and as richly adorned, as if you were full of treasures.

It seems to intimate some of them had more then one house, a City, and a Countrey house, and whilst Gods house lay waste; they thus lavish out their wealth on private wordly conveniences, but grudge the charge on Gods House. Can you thus live without a Temple, an Altar, a Sacrifice, and yet cannot live without stately Houses? Do you owe so much to your selves and so little to your God? So much to your bodies, so little to your souls?

In its rubbish, or in bare, naked foundations without any superstructure.

Marginal references: 2 Sam. 7.2. Psal. 132.3. &c.