Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Habakkuk 3:4
And his brightness was as the light.... — Better, And a brightness shall there be, like sunlight, and rays are at His side; and there [i.e., in this radiance] is the tabernacle of His power.
And his brightness was as the light.... — Better, And a brightness shall there be, like sunlight, and rays are at His side; and there [i.e., in this radiance] is the tabernacle of His power.
Verse 4. _HE HAD HORNS_ COMING _OUT OF HIS HAND_] קרנים _karnayim,_ _rays_. His _hand_ - his _power_ - was manifested in a particular place, by the sudden issuing out of pencils of rays, which diverg...
AND HIS BRIGHTNESS - that wherein God dwelleth Ezekiel 10:4, “the brightness of the Lord’s glory,” before which darkness fleeth Psalms 18:12, “was as the light,” or as the sun. Out of the midst of the...
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...
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;...
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...
HORNS. power. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Effect), App-6, for the power put forth by them. Hebrew dual. two rays. COMING OUT OF. from: i.e. power from [His] hands [is] His. THE HIDING, &C...
_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...
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. (See Deuteronomy 33:2.) And there wa...
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...
And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power. AND HIS BRIGHTNESS WAS AS THE LIGHT - namely, of the sun (Job 37:21, "The bright li...
3:4 Rays (e-8) Lit. 'horns.'...
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...
HORNS _COMING_ OUT OF HIS HAND] RV 'Bays _coming forth_ from his hand.' This clause some take with the next one, so that the meaning would be 'the rays at His side He makes the veil of His power,' tha...
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...
וְ נֹ֨גַהּ֙ כָּ † אֹ֣ור תִּֽהְיֶ֔ה קַרְנַ֥יִם...
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...
And [his] brightness was as the light; (e) he had horns [coming] out of his hand: and there [was] the hiding of his power. (e) By which is meant a power that was joined with his brightness, which was...
Horns, &c. That is, strength and power, which by a Hebrew phrase are called horns: or beams of light, which come forth from his hands: or it may allude to the cross, in the horns of which the hands of...
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...
He confirms the declaration which I have explained that God, when he intended his presence to be made known to his people, gave evidences of his wonderful power, capable of awakening the minds of all....
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...
AND [HIS] BRIGHTNESS WAS AS THE LIGHT,.... Of fire, of devouring fire on the top of the mount, to which the sight of his glory was like, Exodus 24:16 to which Kimchi refers it. Aben Ezra thinks the pi...
And [his] brightness was as the light; he had horns [coming] out of his hand: and there [was] the hiding of his power. Ver. 4. _And his brightness was as the light_] The glory of the Lord was as a de...
_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...
And His brightness was as the light, bursting forth as the sunlight when the ball of the sun rises above the horizon; HE HAD HORNS, the rays of the sun as it first appears, COMING OUT OF HIS HAND, on...
JEHOVAH'S MAJESTIC COMING TO JUDGMENT...
HORNS COMING OUT OF HIS HAND: Or, bright beams out of his side...
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...
HIS BRIGHTNESS, that lustre in which God appeared, that unparalleled splendour which shined from him, was as the light; pure, clear as the sun, but much more dazzling and overcoming. HORNS: some read...
Habakkuk 3:4 brightness H5051 light H216 rays H7161 hand H3027 power H5797 hidden H2253 brightness -...
‘God came from Teman, And the Holy One from Mount Paran, (selah - consider that!), His glory covered the heavens, And the earth was full of his praise. His brightness was as the light, Rays proce...
Zechariah 3:4 I. In the realm of nature there are hidings of God's power. Though we might become acquainted with the whole created universe of God, we have not exhausted Him. We get lost in our though...
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...
_He had horns coming out of His hand._ THE HORN AS A SYMBOL The use of the word “horn” as a metaphor to express strength and honour is of very ancient origin. It appears to have arisen from the expre...
_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,...
1 Timothy 6:16; Exodus 13:21; Exodus 14:20; Isaiah 60:19; Isaiah 60:20
As the light — Pure, clear as the sun, but much more dazzling. His hand — The face of Moses shined; the face, yea, hands of our God, shine with glorious light. There — In that light wherewith he appea...