Haggai 2:22 - Exposition

I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms. No events in Zerubbabel's time satisfied this prediction, which waits for its fulfilment in the Messianic age ( Luke 1:52 ). "The throne" is used distributively for "every throne of kingdoms;" Septuagint, "thrones of kings." Of the heathen; of the nations. Chariots , etc. Emblems of the military power by which the nations had risen to eminence ( Psalms 20:7 ; Zechariah 10:5 ). Shall come down. Be brought to the ground, perish ( Isaiah 34:7 ). By the sword of his brother. The heathen powers shall annihilate one another ( Ezekiel 38:21 ; Zechariah 14:13 ).