Discovery BoxHaggai 2:13 
Context2:13 Then Haggai asked, “If a person who is ritually unclean because of touching a dead body 1 comes in contact with one of these items, will it become unclean?” The priests answered, “It will be unclean.”
Haggai 2:22
Context2:22 I will overthrow royal thrones and shatter the might of earthly kingdoms. 2 I will overthrow chariots and those who ride them, and horses and their riders will fall as people kill one another. 3
1 tn Heb “unclean of a person,” a euphemism for “unclean because of a dead person”; see Lev 21:11; Num 6:6. Cf. NAB “unclean from contact with a corpse.”
2 tn Heb “the kingdoms of the nations.” Cf. KJV “the kingdoms of the heathen”; NIV, NLT “foreign kingdoms.”
3 tn Heb “and horses and their riders will go down, a man with a sword his brother”; KJV “every one by the sword of his brother.”
