Haggai 1 divides into two inseparable parts. Haggai 1:1–11 presents a divine message for the people, delivered to them either through or in the presence of Zerubbabel and Joshua. Haggai 1:12–15 gives the response to the message. The strong connection between the two parts is also illustrated by how Haggai 1:1 and Haggai 1:15 join together to make it a literary unit.
1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest: