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Verse Habakkuk 2:10. _HAST SINNED_ AGAINST _THY SOUL._] Thy _life_ is
forfeited by thy crimes....
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THOU HAST CONSULTED SHAME TO THY HOUSE, THE CUTTING OFF MANY PEOPLE,
AND SINNING AGAINST THY SOUL - The wicked, whether out of passion or
with his whole mind and deliberate choice and will, takes that...
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CHAPTER 2
The Ungodliness of the Chaldeans and Their Destruction
_ 1. The waiting prophet and the message he received (Habakkuk 2:1) _
2. The five-fold woe upon the Chaldeans (Habakkuk 2:5)
Habakku...
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WOES ON THE EVIL-DOER.
Habakkuk 2:5 f. Woe on the insatiable conqueror, who treacherously
gathers to himself the heritage of all the nations, only to be the
victim of their bitterest maledictions.
Ha...
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CONSULTED. counselled, or devised.
SHAME. a shameful thing.
SINNED AGAINST THY SOUL. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 16:38).
SINNED. Hebrew. _chata._ App-44....
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_WOE TO THOSE THAT ARE GREEDY AND COVETOUS -- HABAKKUK 2:1-11:_ After
Habakkuk spoke his second message he said he would stand guard on the
watchtower and wait for the Lord's answer. He would stand bo...
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JEHOVAH'S ANSWER. Habakkuk 2:1-20
RV. I will stand upon my watch and set me upon the tower, and will
look forth to see what he will speak with me, and what I shall answer
concerning my complaint. And...
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2:10 against (f-16) Or 'endangered.'...
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FAITH TRIUMPHANT
1-4. The view from the watchtower.
1. The prophet climbs his tower, for he must reach a vantage point, if
he is to contemplate with real understanding and insight the confusion
about...
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CONSULTED] i.e. contrived: cp. Micah 6:5.
12-14. The fourth woe. Every fabric reared upon iniquity is doomed to
destruction. The triumph of the kingdom of God, and of that alone, is
sure. The world-c...
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THE PROBLEM OF ASSYRIA
Habakkuk
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
CHAPTER 2
V1 I will stand and I will watch. I will stay on the walls (of the
city). I will look to see what (God) will say to me. And I will see...
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(6-20) The destruction of the Chaldæans has hitherto been only
implied. It is now plainly foretold in a denunciatory song, put into
the mouths of the invader’s victims. In this song there are five
str...
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(9-11) Woe on the aggrandisement of the new dynasty by force and
cunning....
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AND HAST SINNED... — Literally, _and sinning in thy soul._ All the
time the Babylonian oppressor was plundering these peoples he was
involving his soul in guilt. (Comp. Habakkuk 1:11.)...
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יָעַ֥צְתָּ בֹּ֖שֶׁת לְ בֵיתֶ֑ךָ
קְצֹות ־עַמִּ֥ים...
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Habakkuk 2:1
Habakkuk 2:5
The dramatic piece Habakkuk 1:2; Habakkuk 2:1 is succeeded by a series
of fine taunt-songs, starting after an in
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“THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH”
Habakkuk 2:1-20
Having prayed, the prophet expected an answer and looked out for it.
When it came, there would be no mistaking it. But until we see eye to
eye, we must...
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The proclamations fall into two parts. The first is concerned with the
"puffed up," the second concerns the righteous.
The "puffed up" are described as haughty, ambitious, conquering,
against whom th...
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Thou (h) gavest shameful counsel to thy house by cutting off many
people, and hast sinned [against] thy soul.
(h) Signifying that the covetous man is the ruin of his own house,
when he thinks to enri...
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_House. Thinking to establish thy family for ever, thou hast proved
its ruin by avarice, &c. (Worthington) --- This is applied to
Nabuchodonosor, but may be as well explained of Joakim, who oppressed...
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What vision is this? The whole prophecy of Isaiah is called a vision.
Isaiah 1:1. And that we know to have been concerning the Lord Jesus
and his gospel. And is not this the same? Was not Jesus sent f...
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Lectures on the Minor Prophets.
W. Kelly.
There is no prophetic delivery among the twelve lesser books more
peculiar and characteristic than that of Habakkuk. It has no longer
the occupation with the...
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The Prophet again confirms the truth, that those who count themselves
happy, imagining that they are like God, busy themselves in vain; for
God will turn to shame whatever they think to be their glory...
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There the prophet stops, that God in His time may explain this;
watches, like a sentinel, to receive the answer of God to the anxiety
of his soul. God, in order to comfort His prophet and all His fait...
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THOU HAST CONSULTED SHAME TO THY HOUSE,.... Instead of bringing real
honour and glory to their church, and that into the esteem of men, by
such covetousness, ambition, and arrogance, they brought it i...
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Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and
hast sinned [against] thy soul.
Ver. 10. _Thou hast consulted shame to thy house, &c._] Thou hast
taken a wrong course both for...
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_Wo to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house _
“Which Nebuchadnezzar strove to aggrandize, and which Cyrus cut
off.” Newcome. The translation of the LXX. accords exactly with
ours: but t...
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Thou hast consulted shame to thy house, for the Chaldean's counsel, as
outlined in the preceding verse, was bound to bring disgrace upon him,
BY CUTTING OFF MANY PEOPLE, the plan to bring about the de...
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THE FOUR REMAINING WOES...
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5-14 The prophet reads the doom of all proud and oppressive powers
that bear hard upon God's people. The lusts of the flesh, the lust of
the eye, and the pride of life, are the entangling snares of m...
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WOE! it is a general and comprehensive threat against all tyrants and
oppressors. To him; every one that is guilty of the sin. THAT COVETETH
AN EVIL COVETOUSNESS; or driveth a trade of oppression, to...
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Habakkuk 2:10 shameful H1322 counsel H3289 (H8804) house H1004 off
H7096 (H8800) many H7227 peoples H5971 sin...
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THE FIVE WOES OF GOD (HABAKKUK 2:6).
God now outlines to Habakkuk how He is going to finally punish Babylon
for what it is, and the wonderful blessing to the whole world which
will come from His acti...
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THE SECOND WOE (HABAKKUK 2:9).
Habakkuk 2:9
‘Woe to him who obtains an evil gain for his house, that he may set
his nest high up, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil. You
have devised sham...
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Habakkuk 2:1. _I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower,
and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall
answer when I am reproved._
«I shall look to God, and I shall al...
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CONTENTS: Jehovah's response to Habakkuk's testimony. Vision of coming
woes.
CHARACTERS: God, Habakkuk.
CONCLUSION: The lusts of the flash, the lusts of the eye and the pride
of life are the entangl...
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Zechariah 2:1. _I will stand upon my watch._ The ancient nations often
had no great confidence in what is now called, The faith of treaties.
The Israelites kept a watchman on the tower of Jezreel; oth...
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_Thou hast consulted shame to thy house._
CONSULTING SHAME
The prophet again confirms the truth, that those who count themselves
happy, imagining that they are like God, busy themselves in vain; for...
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_Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house._
COVETOUSNESS AND SELF-TRUST
I. The national wrongs here indicated.
1. Coveting the possessions of others. “Woe to him that coveteth an
e...
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HABAKKUK 2:2 God’s Response. The Lord assures Habakkuk that he will
punish all the wicked, at the right time.
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HABAKKUK—NOTE ON HABAKKUK 2:6 This taunt against the Babylonians
consists of five “woe oracles” (vv. Habakkuk 2:6, Habakku
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
Habakkuk 2:9. Woe] the second, against establishing a permanent
settlement by godless gain. EVIL] Covetousness surpassingly evil and
fatal to itself. HOUSE] Not the palace but the dy...
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EXPOSITION
HABAKKUK 2:1
§ 5. _The prophet, waiting for an answer to his expostulation, is
bidden to write the oracle in plain characters, because its fulfilment
is certain._
HABAKKUK 2:1
Habakkuk s...
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Shall we turn at this time to the book of Habakkuk.
Very little is known concerning the personal background of Habakkuk.
Very little, nothing is known. We don't know really anything about his
backgrou...
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1 Kings 2:23; 2 Kings 10:7; 2 Kings 9:26; Isaiah 14:20; Isaiah 33:11
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Thou — Nebuchadnezzar....