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Verse 5. _BEFORE HIM WENT THE PESTILENCE_] This plague was several
times inflicted on the disobedient Israelites in the wilderness; see
Numbers 11:33; Numbers 14:37; Numbers 16:46; and was always the...
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BEFORE HIM WENT (GOETH) THE PESTILENCE - then to consume His enemies.
Exodus 23:27 : “I will send My fear before thee, and will destroy
all the people, to whom thou shalt come,” and the lightnings are...
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CHAPTER 3
The Vision of the Coming of the Lord
_ 1. The prophet's prayer (Habakkuk 3:1) _
2. The coming of the Lord for judgment and redemption (Habakkuk 3:3)
3. The effect upon the prophet (Habak...
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In answer to his prayer, Yahweh comes from Sinai, riding on His
victorious chariots, surrounded by glory and splendour, His bow
uncovered and His quiver filled with shafts, making the mountains to
sin...
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HABAKKUK 3. THE PRAYER OF HABAKKUK.
Habakkuk 3:1. Shigionoth: probably plural of _shiggaion_ (Psalms 7:1,
p. 373). But LXX reads _n e ginoth_, on the stringed instruments
(_cf._ Psalms 4:1;...
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BEFORE HIM WENT, &C. Supply the logical _Ellipsis_: "[As He went forth
to conquer for His People] before Him went", &c. See Exodus 28:27;
Psalms 68:1; Psalms 68:2.
BURNING COALS: or, lightning Compare...
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_GOD HELPS YOU THROUGH DIFFICULTIES -- HABAKKUK 3:3-7:_ Habakkuk sees
the difficulty that the nation will face but more than that he sees
God, who He is and His great power. Habakkuk knew that God wou...
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BEFORE HIM WENT THE PESTILENCE— See Ezekiel 20:47. Houbigant,
supposing this to refer to God's appearance on mount Sinai, instead of
_pestilence,_ which he thinks ill suited to the subject, renders th...
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CHAPTER XVIII
THE PROPHET'S POETIC PRAYER
VISION OF GOD IN JUDGEMENT. Habakkuk 3:1-15
RV. A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, set to Shigionoth. O Jehovah, I
have heard the report of thee, and am afra...
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Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his
feet.
BEFORE HIM WENT THE PESTILENCE - to destroy His people's foes, as He
smote the Philistines with emerods, so that they said,...
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JEHOVAH COMES TO JUDGMENT
This is one of the most brilliant poems in the OT. It was written by a
man of imagination as well as of faith. It is not quite certain
whether Habakkuk 3:8 are intended to re...
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BURNING COALS] RV 'fiery bolts.'...
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THE PROBLEM OF ASSYRIA
Habakkuk
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
CHAPTER 3
V1 (These are) the words that the *prophet Habakkuk prayed. (He used
music called) Shigionoth.
V2 *LORD, I have heard (what people) s...
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III.
(1-15) A hymn describing a future self-manifestation of Jehovah on
Israel’s behalf, accompanied by the signs and wonders of the early
history. It is impossible to give the English reader an idea...
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(3-15) Habakkuk describes the “Theophany” or self-manifestation of
Jehovah, which is to introduce the desired deliverance. The Authorised
Version has unfortunately rendered all the verbs in this secti...
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BEFORE HIM WENT THE PESTILENCE.... — Better, _Before Him shall go
the plague, and burning pestilence shall go forth where He sets His
feet._ Kleinert remarks that it was with these angels of death tha...
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לְ פָנָ֖יו יֵ֣לֶךְ דָּ֑בֶר וְ יֵצֵ֥א
רֶ֖שֶׁף
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Habakkuk 3:1
The third chapter, an Ode or Rhapsody, is ascribed to Habakkuk by its
title. This, however, does not prove its authenticity: the title is
too like those assigned to the Psalms in the peri...
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THE FAITH THAT IS INVINCIBLE
Habakkuk 3:1-19
This psalm was intended to be sung by the captives during the Exile,
which was near. In Habakkuk 3:3-15 there is a recital of the great
events in the past...
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In the proclamation concerning the righteous, the majesty of Jehovah
and the consequent triumph of His people are set forth. It consists of
a psalm which is a prayer.
In the first movement the prophe...
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Death, &c. Both death and the devil shall be the executioners of his
justice against his enemies; as they were heretofore against the
Egyptians and Chanaanites. (Challoner) --- Hebrew daber, (Haydock)...
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It is impossible by any comment, even if written with the pen of an
angel, to add any beauty to this most sublime passage. I retire from
it therefore, and only beg the Reader, as he reads it, to conne...
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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 repeats here, that God came armed to defend his people,
when he went forth from Teman; for he connects with it here the
deliverance of the people. He does not indeed speak only of the
prom...
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This answer brings home to the heart of the prophet the solemn
presence of God, and leads him to look for a revival of God's working
in the midst of the people in grace, and turns him back to God's fi...
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BEFORE HIM WENT THE PESTILENCE,.... Either in the land of Egypt, when
he marched through that, and slew all their firstborn,
Psalms 78:50 or rather which he sent before him, and Israel his people
amo...
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Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his
feet.
Ver. 5. _Before him went the pestilence_] _Dever,_ the word signifieth
such a disease as cometh by a Divine decree, θεηλατον....
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_And his brightness was as the light_ Green renders this verse thus:
_His brightness was as the brightness of the sun; he had rays of light
beaming from his hand; and there was the hiding-place of his...
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BURNING COALS:
Or, burning diseases...
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3-15 God's people, when in distress, and ready to despair, seek help
by considering the days of old, and the years of ancient times, and by
pleading them with God in prayer. The resemblance between t...
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BEFORE HIM: when God was leading the Israelites out of Egypt into
Canaan, he made the pestilence to go before him, so preparing room for
his people. THE PESTILENCE, which wasted the inhabitants of Can...
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Habakkuk 3:5 Before H6440 went H3212 (H8799) pestilence H1698 fever
H7565 followed H3318 (H8799) feet H7272...
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‘Before him went the pestilence,
And fiery bolts (burning coals, thunderbolts, fearsome heat, plague)
went forth at his feet,
He stood and measured the land (or ‘earth'),
He beheld and drove asunde...
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CONTENTS: Habakkuk's answer of faith to Jehovah. The terror of God's
wrath against sinners.
CHARACTERS: God, Habakkuk.
CONCLUSION: The God of nature can alter and control all the powers of
nature to...
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Zechariah 3:1. _A prayer of Habakkuk,_ by which he cheered and
encouraged the church, and his own soul, under all the gloom that
overspread the state of his country.
_Shigionoth,_ the name of a pensiv...
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_God came from Teman._
GOD POETICALLY PORTRAYED AND PRACTICALLY REMEMBERED
The Bible contains many grand songs and odes. But this song of
Habakkuk stands in peerless splendour amongst them all.
I. P...
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HABAKKUK—NOTE ON HABAKKUK 3:1 Habakkuk’s Prayer. Habakkuk asks for
a new demonstration of God’s wrath and mercy, such as God gave so
powerfully in the past. He closes with a confession of faith and tr...
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HABAKKUK—NOTE ON HABAKKUK 3:4 Habakkuk compares God’s presence at
Mount Sinai to a thunderstorm with darkness and lightning (see Exodus
19:18;...
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
Habakkuk 3:3.] These descriptions rest upon earlier revelations of
God. TEMAN, Edom; PARAN] (Deuteronomy 33:2). God appeared from Sinai
in splendour, which like the morning covered...
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EXPOSITION
HABAKKUK 3:1
Part II. PSALM OR PRAYER OF HABAKKUK.
HABAKKUK 3:1
§ 1. _The title._ A PRAYER. There is only one form
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Now in chapter 3 it is a psalm, it is,
A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth (Zechariah 3:1).
Now about the seventh psalm or so, I think it is upon the Shiggaion,
which is the same thing,...
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Deuteronomy 32:24; Exodus 12:29; Exodus 12:30; Nahum 1:2; Nahum 1:3;...
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Before him — When God was leading the Israelites out of Egypt, he
made the pestilence go before him, so preparing room for his people....