Wo. This might be explained of Nabuchodonosor; but we rather understand the king of Tyre, whose pride was intolerable, Ezechiel xxviii. It seems useless to repeat so often the same threats against one king. (Calmet)
Verse Habakkuk 2:12. _WO TO HIM THAT BUILDETH A TOWN WITH BLOOD_] At the expense of much slaughter. This is the answer of the _beam_ to the _stone_. And these things will refer to the vast fortunes g...
WOE TO HIM THAT BUILDETH A TOWN WITH BLOOD, AND ESTABLISHETH A CITY BY INIQUITY! - Nebuchadnezzar “encircled the inner city with three walls and the outer city also with three, all of burnt brick. And...
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...
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...
INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'aval._ App-44. Not the same word as in Habakkuk 1:3; Habakkuk 1:13....
_WOE TO THOSE THAT ARE USE VIOLENCE -- HABAKKUK 2:12-14:_ The Chaldeans were doomed because they built their nation on violence and blood shed. They would conquer a nation, kill its people and take an...
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...
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity! WOE TO HIM THAT BUILDETH A TOWN WITH BLOOD - namely, Babylon, rebuilt and enlarged by blood-bought spoils (cf. )....
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...
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...
(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...
(12-14) “Woe on the extension of Babylon by oppression and enforced labour....
הֹ֛וי בֹּנֶ֥ה עִ֖יר בְּ דָמִ֑ים וְ כֹונֵ֥ן
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
“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...
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...
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...
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...
_The stone_, then, _from the wall shall cry, and the wood shall answer _—what will it answer?—_Woe to him who builds a city by blood_, and who adorns _his city by iniquity_. By blood and by iniquity h...
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...
WOE TO HIM THAT BUILDETH A TOWN WITH BLOOD, AND ESTABLISHETH A CITY BY INIQUITY!] This is what the stone and beam should say, if others were silent. The town and city are the church of Rome, mystical...
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity! Ver. 12. _Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood_] This seemeth to be the senseless creatures, black _Cantus_ Song,...
_Wo to him that buildeth a town with blood_ Wo to those mighty conquerors who have augmented Babylon by unjustly spoiling and ruining many other cities, and destroying their inhabitants. Here we see t...
THE FOUR REMAINING WOES...
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood! with blood-bought spoils, as Babylon was built, AND STABLISHETH A CITY BY INIQUITY, by violence and oppression....
BLOOD: _ Heb._ bloods...
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...
Whosoever he be that lays foundations in blood, is here threatened, and none so great as to keep Off the woe, deserved and menaced. A TOWN, Heb. _city_. WITH BLOOD; in the guilt and with the cruelty o...
Habakkuk 2:12 Woe H1945 builds H1129 (H8802) town H5892 bloodshed H1818 establishes H3559 (H8790) city H7151 iniqu
THE THIRD WOE (HABAKKUK 2:12). Habakkuk 2:12 ‘Woe to him who builds a town with blood, And establishes a city by iniquity. Behold is it not of YHWH that the peoples labour for the fire, And the n...
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...
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...
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...
_Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood._ A CURSE DENOUNCED AGAINST BLOODSHED I. The ground or cause of this curse. The crying, crimson sin of bloodshed. In all generations it has been the care o...
HABAKKUK 2:2 God’s Response. The Lord assures Habakkuk that he will punish all the wicked, at the right time. ⇐ ⇔...
HABAKKUK—NOTE ON HABAKKUK 2:6 This taunt against the Babylonians consists of five “woe oracles” (vv. Habakkuk 2:6, Habakku
HABAKKUK—NOTE ON HABAKKUK 2:12 WOE. Babylon is condemned for its violence and injustice. ⇐...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Habakkuk 2:12. Woe] the third. TOWN] Babylon, rebuilt and enlarged by spoils of blood (Daniel 4:30). HABAKKUK 2:13. FIRE] Lit. to suffice the fire; conflagration and depopulation th...
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...
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...
1 Kings 16:34; Daniel 4:27; Ezekiel 24:9; Genesis 4:11; Habakkuk 2:8