Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Habakkuk 3:5
Before him — When God was leading the Israelites out of Egypt, he made the pestilence go before him, so preparing room for his people.
Before him — When God was leading the Israelites out of Egypt, he made the pestilence go before him, so preparing room for his people.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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;...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
BURNING COALS] RV 'fiery bolts.'...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
לְ פָנָ֖יו יֵ֣לֶךְ דָּ֑בֶר וְ יֵצֵ֥א רֶ֖שֶׁף
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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....
_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...
Before Him went the pestilence, or, the plague goes before Him, AND BURNING COALS WENT FORTH AT HIS FEET, the excessive heat of the fever of various pestilences, these angels of death being His attend...
JEHOVAH'S MAJESTIC COMING TO JUDGMENT...
BURNING COALS: Or, burning diseases...
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...
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...
Habakkuk 3:5 Before H6440 went H3212 (H8799) pestilence H1698 fever H7565 followed H3318 (H8799) feet H7272...
‘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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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;...
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...
EXPOSITION HABAKKUK 3:1 Part II. PSALM OR PRAYER OF HABAKKUK. HABAKKUK 3:1 § 1. _The title._ A PRAYER. There is only one form
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,...
Deuteronomy 32:24; Exodus 12:29; Exodus 12:30; Nahum 1:2; Nahum 1:3;...