Haggai 2:17

I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the Lord.

Cross-reference

Haggai 1:11 Parallel

Haggai 1:11 describes drought as judgment for neglecting the temple — the same agricultural judgment theme, complementing the blight and hail here.

Haggai 1:9 Parallel

Haggai 1:9 explains the same divine judgment—crop failure because God's house was neglected—that 2:17 summarizes.

Deuteronomy 28:22 lists blight and mildew as covenant curses for disobedience—the same judgment Haggai 2:17 refers to.

Revelation 9:21 Related theme

Revelation 9:21 continues: despite judgments, people did not repent of their sins—same pattern of hardened unrepentance as in Haggai.

Revelation 9:20 explicitly parallels: after plagues, the rest of mankind still did not repent of their idolatry—direct mirror of Haggai's 'yet you did not turn to me'.

Zechariah 1:2–4 Related theme

Zechariah 1:2-4 reports God's call to return and the ancestors' refusal to listen — same theme of unrepentance despite divine warning.

Amos 4:9 Parallel

Amos 4:9 uses the exact same phrase 'I struck you with blight and mildew... yet you did not return to me' — a direct parallel to this judgment.

Amos 4:8-11 repeatedly says 'yet you did not return to me' after blight, mildew, and other plagues — a near verbatim parallel.

Hosea 7:10 Parallel

Hosea 7:10 explicitly states: 'they do not return to the LORD their God' — same refusal to repent after experiencing judgment.

Jeremiah 8:4-7 laments that people fall but do not rise, turn away but do not repent — directly matching Haggai's 'yet you did not turn to me'.

In 2 Chronicles 28:22, Ahaz did not turn to the Lord despite distress — the same failure to repent as in Haggai's 'yet you did not turn to me'.

Isaiah 9:13 Parallel

Isaiah 9:13 echoes the same formula: God struck them, yet they did not turn to Him — a repeated indictment of Israel's stubbornness.

Jeremiah 5:3 directly parallels: 'You struck them, but they felt no pain; they refused to repent.' Same pattern of discipline without response.

Jeremiah 8:13 predicts God will consume the harvest (no grapes, figs, fading leaf) as judgment for sin—directly parallel to Haggai's blight and mildew.

Deuteronomy 28:16 begins the covenant curses list; Haggai's blight and mildew (cf. v.22) apply those very curses for disobedience.

In Malachi 3:11, God promises to remove pests as a blessing, contrasting with the pestilence sent in Haggai as judgment.

Amos 4:6 Parallel

In Amos 4:6, the same refrain 'yet you have not returned to me' appears, directly paralleling the covenant lawsuit pattern in Haggai.

Hosea 2:9 Related theme

In Hosea 2:9, God similarly withholds grain and wine as judgment for unfaithfulness, reinforcing the pattern of agricultural curse for covenant breach.

Jeremiah 12:13 Related theme

Jeremiah 12:13 describes sowing wheat but reaping thorns with no profit due to God's fierce anger—same theme of fruitless labor under divine judgment.

Isaiah 42:25 describes God's anger burning them, but they did not take it to heart — similar failure to respond to judgment.

Hosea 7:9 Parallel

Hosea 7:9 says foreigners devour his strength but he does not know — obliviousness to judgment, similar to not turning back.

In Ezekiel 13:13, the same imagery of hailstones appears as divine judgment against false prophets, echoing the covenant curse in Haggai.

Revelation 2:21 echoes this: God gave the woman Jezebel time to repent, but she did not—same refusal to turn despite God's patience.

Jeremiah 3:24 Related theme

Jeremiah 3:24 says idols 'devoured the labor of our fathers' — the same loss of labor due to sin, here linked to idolatry.

2 Chronicles 6:28 lists blight and mildew as divine judgments, echoing Haggai 2:17's description of God's strike.

Zechariah 7:9–13 Related theme

Zechariah 7:9-13 shows God sending prophets to call repentance, but the people refused to hear, bringing wrath—same pattern of unrepentance after divine warning as in Haggai.

Malachi 2:2 Related theme

In Malachi 2:2, God threatens to curse blessings for disobedience, a similar covenantal punishment context as Haggai's blight.

1 Kings 8:37 mentions blight and mildew among calamities God may send—same terms as Haggai 2:17's list of judgments.