Teks -- Haggai 2:22 (NET)

2:22 I will overthrow royal thrones and shatter the might of earthly kingdoms. I will overthrow chariots and those who ride them, and horses and their riders will fall as people kill one another.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

JFB: Hag 2:22

All other world kingdoms are to be overthrown to make way for Christ's universal kingdom (Dan 2:44). War chariots are to give place to His reign of peace (Mic 5:10; Zec 9:10).

TSK: Hag 2:22 - overthrow // and I will overthrow the chariots // every

overthrow : Isa 60:12; Eze 21:27; Dan 2:34, Dan 2:35, Dan 2:44, Dan 2:45, Dan 7:25-27, Dan 8:25; Mic 5:8, Mic 5:15; Zep 3:8; Zec 10:11, Zec 12:2-5, Zec 14:3; Mat 24:7; Rev 11:15

and I will overthrow the chariots : Exo 14:17, Exo 14:28, Exo 15:4, Exo 15:19; Psa 46:9, Psa 76:6; Eze 39:20; Mic 5:10; Zec 4:6; Zec 9:10

every : Jdg 7:22; 1Sa 14:16; 2Ch 20:22; Isa 9:19, Isa 19:2

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Hag 2:22 - I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms // I will destroy the strength // Every one by the sword of his brother

I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms: now Babylonians are subjected to the Persian power, and this standeth on the strength of many kingdoms, and seems to be one throne secured by all the power of the known world, and can hardly be hoped to be hereafter better than an enemy and opposer of the Jews, and their restoring of the worship of God: for comfort in this case here is foretold God’ s overthrowing them, in case they oppose.

I will destroy the strength: this seems an explaining of the former, and a confirming it too. Though the Gentiles of many kingdoms united in all their strength, set to hinder this work, this shall succeed so contrary to their expectation, that not you, but they shall find destruction as the end thereof; which was verified in the successive ruin of the Persian, Grecian, and Syrian kingdoms, all which oppressed the church, and were destroyed for it.

Every one by the sword of his brother: this passage foreshows that God will, by suffering civil wars to arise among these nations, ruin them by themselves, as in truth they did: now whilst those commotions and overthrows perplex and hurt the Jews, yet they were an occasion sometimes of some respite to them; their enemies were engaged on other designs, and could not mind mischief to the Jews.

Haydock: Hag 2:22 - Earth

Earth. Some great event is denoted. Nothing occurs in history after the second year of Darius, to shew that Zorobabel signalized himself. Theodoret thinks that the irruption of the Scythians, or of Gog, is meant. Others believe (Calmet) that the prophecy relates to Christ, at his first (St. Cyril) or second coming. (St. Jerome) ---

But the Hebrew speaks of something past, and we doubt not but the attempt of Cambyses, three years before, is the subject, Ezechiel xxxviii. "I have overcome the throne of kings," Cambyses, and the magi, and have given the kingdom to another family. The enemy has destroyed himself. Then I kept thee as a seal, with the greatest care, Jeremias xxii. 24. Thou art no longer oppressed by the Persian king of his governor. Hystaspes has declared in thy favour. Nothing could more enhance the authority of Zorobabel than an action so recent, which God seemed to have permitted on his account, and for his glory. (Calmet) ---

While all other kingdoms perish, the Church of Christ remains. (Worthington)

Gill: Hag 2:22 - And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms // and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen // and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down // everyone by the sword of his brother

And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms,.... The Persian monarchy, which consisted of various kingdoms and nations, and was destroyed under Darius Codomannus by Alexander the great, who fought with him three pitched battles, and overcame him; but the thing was of the Lord, according to his purpose and will, and by his power and providence; and therefore the overthrow is ascribed to him. The Jews ^t say that the Persian monarchy fell by the Grecians thirty four years after the building of the temple; but very wrongly, it lasted longer:

and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; the empire of Alexander, which was a very strong one, and contained in it many kingdoms and nations, even the whole world, at least as he thought; and which was divided after his death into several kingdoms; the strength of which was greatly weakened by one another, and at last entirely destroyed by the Romans as instruments:

and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down; which may refer either to the chariots and horses, and their riders, belonging to the Grecians, and used in their wars; or else this may describe the empire of the Romans, which in its turn should be destroyed, famous for their triumphal chariots:

everyone by the sword of his brother; by civil wars, which was remarkably true of the successors of Alexander, as appears from Josephus ^u and Justin ^w: this may be applied to all the kingdoms of this world, which will all be demolished, and be brought into subjection to Christ, and his kingdom shall be set up in the world, the son and antitype of Zerubbabel, of whom the following words are to be understood; see Dan 2:44. Abendana interprets it of the army of Gog and Magog, who shall fall everyone by the sword of his brother.