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Verse 7. _SHALL THEY NOT RISE UP SUDDENLY_] Does not this refer to the
_sudden_ and _unexpected taking of Babylon by Cyrus_, whose troops
entered into the city through the bed of the Euphrates, whose...
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SHALL NOT THEY RISE UP SUDDENLY THAT SHALL BITE THEE, AND AWAKE THAT
SHALL VEX THEE? - The destruction of the wicked is ever sudden at
last. Such was the flood Luke 17:26, the destruction of Sodom, of...
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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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BITE: or, exact usury.
VEX. shake....
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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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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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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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(6-8) Woe on the reckless rapacity which has spared neither life nor
property....
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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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BITE. — This verb _nâshac_ also means “to oppress with usury,”
and this is its force here. _Thy_ turn shall come, and men shall exact
usury from thee. Similarly, the verb translated “vex” is,
literall...
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הֲ לֹ֣וא פֶ֗תַע יָק֨וּמוּ֙
נֹשְׁכֶ֔יךָ וְ יִק
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Habakkuk 1:1
Habakkuk 1:2; Habakkuk 2:1 (or 8)
Yet it is the first piece which raises the most difficult questions.
All admit that it is to be dated somewhere along the line of
Jeremiah's long career...
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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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Shall (g) they not rise suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that
shall oppress thee, and thou shalt be for booty to them?
(g) That is, the Medes and persians, that would destroy the
Babylonians?...
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_Bile, like worms in the grave. Cyrus will overturn the kingdom. The
Rabbins pretend that Evilmerodac caused his father's body to be cut in
pieces for the crows, lest he should return again. (Calmet)_...
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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 proceeds with the subject which we have already begun to
explain; for he introduces here the common taunts against the king of
Babylon and the whole tyrannical empire, by which many nation...
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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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SHALL NOT THEY RISE UP SUDDENLY THAT SHALL BITE THEE,.... Or, "thy
usurers", or "creditors" d, as some render it; the Christians, whose
money, goods, and substance, they had spoiled them of, but now s...
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Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that
shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?
Ver. 7. _Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee?_] Rend
and...
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_Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee?_ Is it not
just, or what thou deservest, that others should suddenly rise against
thee, and bite and tear thee? It is a metaphor taken from the h...
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THE INTRODUCTION AND THE FIRST WOE...
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Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, the Hebrew
having a play upon words between the bite of a snake and the interest
which the usurer demands, AND AWAKE THAT SHALL VEX THEE? rather,...
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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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SHALL THEY NOT? this question doth more fully ascertain the thing.
Rise up; either grow up, or else, as men who resolve to do a thing
thoroughly, get upon their feet and stand to it. The Medes and
Per...
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Habakkuk 2:7 creditors H5391 (H8802) up H6965 (H8799) suddenly H6621
awaken H3364 (H8799) oppress H2111 ...
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THE FIRST WOE (HABAKKUK 2:6).
Habakkuk 2:6
‘Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting
proverb against him, saying,
‘Woe to him who increases what is not his. How long?
And...
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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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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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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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HABAKKUK—NOTE ON HABAKKUK 2:7 DEBTORS. The loot that the Babylonians
have taken from other nations is actually only “on loan” to them
until a stronger nation claims it....
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
Habakkuk 2:6. These] “nations” and “people” (Habakkuk 2:4).
PARABLE] A derisive song (Isaiah 14:4; Micah 2:4), some; ode, given by
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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 Thessalonians 5:3; Daniel 5:25; Ecclesiastes 10:8; Isaiah 13:1;...