Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Habakkuk 1:15
They — The Chaldeans draw out all alike, good or bad. In their net — Destroying many together. And gather — As if they could never have enough, they drive men into their nets.
They — The Chaldeans draw out all alike, good or bad. In their net — Destroying many together. And gather — As if they could never have enough, they drive men into their nets.
THEY TAKE UP ALL OF THEM - (literally “he taketh up all of it”) the whole race as though it were one, WITH AN ANGLE; THEY CATCH THEM - literally, he sweepeth it away IN THEIR (HIS) NET - One fisherma...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS CHAPTER 1 The Judgment of Judah Through the Chaldeans Announced _ 1. The prophet's cry to Jehovah (Habakkuk 1:1) _ 2. The answer (Habakkuk 1:5) 3. The prophet's plea (H
REMONSTRANCE OVER THE INHUMANITY OF THE CHALDEANS. The execution of Divine judgment raises fresh questions: Why should the Holy One, whose eyes are too pure to look on evil, appoint as minister of jus...
ANGLE. hook. DRAG. a fish-net. Occurs only here (verses: Habakkuk 1:15; Habakkuk 1:16) and in Isaiah 19:8. Greek. _sagene._ See App-122. Italian _seine sagena,_ whence (with. different vowel) the Gree...
_HABAKKUK SAW A TERRIBLE DESTRUCTION -- HABAKKUK 1:15-17:_ Habakkuk saw the Chaldeans dealing with the Jews like fish being caught in a net and consumed. The enemy would come and destroy and take them...
THEREFORE THEY REJOICE AND ARE GLAD— _Therefore he rejoices and triumphs._ The whole verse may he rendered in the singular number....
CHAPTER XVII THE SECOND QUESTION Habakkuk 1:12-17 RV. Art thou not from everlasting, O Jehovah my God, my Holy One? we shall not die. O Jehovah, thou hast ordained him for judgement; and thou, O Roc...
They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad. THEY TAKE UP ALL OF THEM - all kinds of fish - i:e., men,...
THE PROPHET'S BURDEN. THE ANSWER OF JEHOVAH 1. Burden] RM 'oracle': see on Isaiah 13:1. 2, 3. HOW LONG?.. WHY?] Even a prophet (Habakkuk 1:1) can ask such questions. He never denies the existence of...
THE PROBLEM OF ASSYRIA Habakkuk _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ ABOUT THE PROBLEM OF ASSYRIA Assyria was a country to the north and east of Israel. For many years, it ruled most of the world. Nahum, Habakkuk...
(12-17) Though sore perplexed, Habakkuk feels sure that the God whom this swaggering conqueror has insulted will at last vindicate Himself....
כֻּלֹּה֙ בְּ חַכָּ֣ה הֵֽעֲלָ֔ה יְגֹרֵ֣הוּ בְ...
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...
THE APPARENT PROSPERITY OF THE WICKED Habakkuk 1:1-17 Habakkuk probably lived toward the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim, when the Chaldeans were preparing to invade the land. Jerusalem was fille...
In this first division of the Book we have the prophet's statement of the problems which vexed his soul. The first was the apparent indifference of Jehovah both to his prayer and to the condition of p...
This is a most blessed prayer, and if I mistake not, it takes into its bosom all the great leading points of redemption. The Prophet by this figure of speech, of seemingly as king, the Lord concerning...
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...
First of all, the prophet complains that the evil which exists among the people is insupportable. This is the natural effect of the working of the Spirit of God in a heart jealous for His glory and de...
THEY TAKE UP ALL OF THEM WITH THE ANGLE,.... The prophet continues the metaphor of fishing, and observes the different ways of taking fish; which is to be applied to the case he is speaking of: as fis...
_They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad._ Ver. 15. _They take up all of them with the angle_] No les...
_Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil_ Thou art of too just and pure a nature to approve of wickedness: it must ever be an abomination to thee. _Thou canst not look upon iniquity_ Except with in...
They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag, in the largest kind of fishnet; THEREFORE THEY REJOICE AND ARE GLAD, the enemies being pleased wit...
The Prophet's Prayer...
DRAG: Or, flue net...
12-17 However matters may be, yet God is the Lord our God, our Holy One. We are an offending people, he is an offended God, yet we will not entertain hard thoughts of him, or of his service. It is gr...
THEY; either more generally oppressors every where, or else particularly the Chaldeans. TAKE UP; draw them out slily and craftily, when they are taken by his bait. ALL OF THEM without distinction, all...
Habakkuk 1:15 up H5927 (H8689) hook H2443 catch H1641 (H8799) net H2764 gather H622 (H8799) dragnet...
HABBAKUK IS EVEN MORE PUT OUT. HOW CAN GOD USE SUCH INSTRUMENTS TO CHASTEN HIS PEOPLE? (HABAKKUK 1:12). Habakkuk 1:12 ‘Are you not from everlasting, O YHWH? My God, my Holy One, We will not die. O...
CONTENTS: Habakkuk's prayer concerning evil in dispersed Israel. God's voice to Israel and Habakkuk's testimony to God. CHARACTERS: God, Habakkuk. CONCLUSION: We must not think it strange if God som...
Zechariah 1:1. _The burden,_ the prophecy, _which Habakkuk the prophet saw._ Here he opens his commission, as divinely inspired with vision, and invested with a charge which he must deliver. God laid...
_And makest men as the fishes of the sea _ RAPACIOUS SELFISHNESS IN POWER Illustrated in Nebuchadnezzar. Selfishness is the root and essence of sin. All unregenerate men are therefore more or less...
HABAKKUK—NOTE ON HABAKKUK 1:12 Second Cycle. This passage asks an age-old question: Why does evil seem to go unpunished? God’s answer is that all who are wicked will eventually be punished; meanwhile,...
HABAKKUK—NOTE ON HABAKKUK 1:15 HE. That is, the “wicked” one in v. Habakkuk 1:13, which represents Babylon. HOOK. See...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Habakkuk 1:11. Then] Elated by victory. CHANGE] Lit. the wind passes by; the storm of violence like the wind sweeps over the land. Some refer it to the Chaldee nation, who change in...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1:1-2:20 PART I. JUDGMENT UPON THE EVIL, IN THE FORM OF A COLLOQUY BETWEEN THE PROPHET AND GOD....
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...
Amos 4:2; Ezekiel 25:6; Ezekiel 26:2; Ezekiel 29:4; Ezekiel 29:5;...