For this is what Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land;
⛓ Read Haggai 2 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
Haggai's promise of a final cosmic shaking. Hebrews fastens on ‘yet once more’: one last shaking removes everything shakeable, leaving only the unshakable Kingdom. The closing ‘our God is a consuming fire’ draws on Deut 4:24.
High confidenceEcho4
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Yet once, it is a little while (mikron), and I will shake the heavens' offers an eschatological 'little while' before God's decisive intervention. It supports the 'little while' time-marker, though the shaking-the-cosmos context is only loosely coherent.
Low confidence'I will shake the heavens and the earth' (Hag 2:6) is part of the prophetic shaking-of-the-cosmos tradition behind 'the powers of the heavens will be shaken.'
Low confidence'I will shake the heavens and the earth' — eschatological shaking associated with the temple, resonating with the earthquake at the moment the temple veil is torn.
Low confidence'I will shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land' may faintly underlie the cosmic shaking that moves every mountain and island; thematic coherence with eschatological upheaval but low verbal volume.
Low confidence