Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Habakkuk 2:1
Upon my watch — I will stand as a watchman on my watch — tower. He — The Lord. Reproved — Called to give an account of the mysteriousness of providence; either to satisfy doubters, or to silence quarrellers.
Upon my watch — I will stand as a watchman on my watch — tower. He — The Lord. Reproved — Called to give an account of the mysteriousness of providence; either to satisfy doubters, or to silence quarrellers.
CHAPTER II _The prophet, waiting for a return to his expostulation, is_ _answered by God that the time for the destruction of the Jewish_ _polity by the Chaldeans is not only fixed in the Divine_...
I WILL STAND - , i. e. I would stand now, as a servant awaiting his master, UPON MY WATCH - or, keep (Isaiah 21:8. משׁמר in the same sense Jeremiah 51:12), and “set me (plant myself firmly) upon the t...
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...
THE ORACLE FROM YAHWEH. Unable to explain the mystery, the prophet stations himself on his watch-tower, and looks for the revelation of God's purpose. Soon the oracle comes, and he is asked to write i...
WATCH. watch-tower; referring to the place. SET ME. take my station. TOWER. fortress. WATCH. look out; referring to the act. keep outlook. UNTO: or, in. ANSWER WHEN. AM REPROVED: or, get back bec...
_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...
I WILL STAND UPON MY WATCH, &C.— _I stood upon my watch, and continued upon the tower; and I looked to see what the Lord would say unto me, and what he would answer to my expostulation:_ [namely, that...
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...
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 WILL STAND UPON MY WATCH - i:e., watchpost. The...
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...
THE TOWER. — The practice of ascending a high place to secure an extensive view suggests the figure here. (See 2 Kings 9:17; 2 Samuel 18:24.) In a yet bolder metaphor Isaiah represents himself as appo...
עַל ־מִשְׁמַרְתִּ֣י אֶעֱמֹ֔דָה וְ אֶֽתְיַצְּבָ֖ה עַל...
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 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...
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...
I will stand upon my (a) watch, and seat myself upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say to me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. (a) I will renounce my own judgment, and only...
Will stand, &c. Waiting to see what the Lord will answer to my complaint, viz., that the Chaldeans, who are worse than the Jews, and who attribute all their success to their own strength, or to their...
CONTENTS The Prophet in the preceding Chapter having offered up his prayer; in this is represented as waiting for his answer. The Lord grants him a gracious one; the Chapter closeth with a solemn acc...
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...
_ON THE WATCH-TOWER_ ‘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.’ Habakkuk 2:1 I. THE PROPHET...
We have seen in the first chapter Habakkuk 1:2 that the Prophet said in the name of all the faithful. It was indeed a hard struggle, when all things were in a perplexed state and no outlet appeared. T...
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...
I WILL STAND UPON MY WATCH,.... These are the words of the prophet: so the Targum introduces them, "the prophet said;'' and this he said in character as a watchman, as all the prophets were: as a wa...
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. Ver. 1. _I will stand upon my watch_] To see what be...
_I will stand upon my watch_ The Hebrews often express one thing by a multiplicity of words, as here several expressions are used to signify the same thing, namely, _watching._ As the prophets were co...
I will stand upon my watch, as an observer on a solitary height, AND SET ME UPON THE TOWER, on the pinnacle of a fortress, where he would have an unobstructed view and could prepare his soul to receiv...
THE INTRODUCTION AND THE FIRST WOE...
TOWER: _ Heb._ fenced place UNTO ME: Or, in me WHEN I AM REPROVED: Or, when I am argued with. _Heb._ upon my reproof or arguing...
1-4 When tossed and perplexed with doubts about the methods of Providence, we must watch against temptations to be impatient. When we have poured out complaints and requests before God, we must obser...
OLBHeb; HABAKKUK CHAPTER 2 Unto Habakkuk, waiting for an answer, HABAKKUK 2:1, is showed that he must wait in faith, HABAKKUK 2:2. The judgment of the Chaldeans for insatiableness, HABAKKUK 2:5, ambit...
Habakkuk 2:1 stand H5975 (H8799) watch H4931 set H3320 (H8691) rampart H4692 watch H6822 (H8762
HABAKKUK LOOKS ANXIOUSLY FOR THE ANSWER TO HIS QUESTIONS (HABAKKUK 2:1) Habakkuk 2:1 ‘I will stand on my watch, And settle myself on the tower, And look out to see what he will say to me, And wha...
Zechariah 2:1 I. The prophet Habakkuk defines for us what the position of that man's mind must be, who would catch the deep, still messages of which everything is full what it is to be waiting for hea...
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...
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...
_I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower._ AWAITING THE LORD’S MESSAGE Nothing definite is known of this man Habakkuk. In the text we see him preparing himself for his holy task--ascen...
CRITICAL NOTES.] WATCH] As those ascending high places to look into the distance (2 Kings 9:17; 2 Samuel 18:24). SET] Plant myself firmly. TO SEE] what God will say. UNTO] Lit. _in_ me; outwardly to t...
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...
2 Corinthians 13:3; 2 Kings 17:9; 2 Kings 9:17; 2 Samuel 18:24;...