Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to you now? Doesn’t it seem like nothing to you?

"The silver belongs to me, as does the gold," declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

If one bears holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt does touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any food, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.

Then Haggai asked, “If someone defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of these, does it become defiled?”

The priests answered, “It becomes defiled.”