Matthew Poole and continuators on Haggai 1:8

8 Go up to the mountain , and bring wood , and build the house , and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified , saith the LORD.

Delay no longer, speed ye up.

Moriah, or Sion, better, Lebanon where best, and greatest store of Cedars were to be h[illegible: 1 letter]d, whence came the goodly Cedars which built Solomons Temple, 1 Kings 5, 14, 15. and where they had (before the building was forbidden) furnished themselves, Ezra 3.7.

Provide all sort of Timber for this future Edifice.

Go on with the work, the foundation whereof hath been laid some years, but the superstructure omitted.

Of God the Holy Temple.

This a very gracious promise revived, an assurance that God will dwell in it, and afford his presence there, I will meet you there, and there I will blesse you, there I will accept your offerings, hear your Prayers, forgive your sins, and satisfie you with the fatness of my house, much the same promise with that, 1 Kings 8.29. and 9.3.

Shew my majestly and account my self glorified by you also.