“ Before him went the pestilence, and burning coalsd went forth at his feet. ”
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 lightni...
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: o...
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 t...
Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. Before him went the pestilence - This plague was several times inflicted on the disobedient Israelites in the wilderness; see...
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, rende...
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...
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 3:8-15 are inten...
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 i...
Habakkuk 3:1-19 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 t...
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...
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 proph...
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 conn...
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 peopl...
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, θεηλατο...
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 hi...
The Divine Majesty; Wonders Wrought for Israel. B. C. 600. 3 God came from Teman, and...
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 o...
‘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 asund...
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 mor...
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 pe...
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....
EXPOSITION Habakkuk 3:1-35 Part II . PSALM OR PRAYER OF HABAKKUK . Habakkuk 3:1 § 1. The title. A prayer. There is only one formal prayer in the ode, that in Habakkuk 3...
Jehovah's Majestic Coming to Judgment
Deuteronomy 32:24 ; Exodus 12:29 ; Exodus 12:30 ; Nahum 1:2 ; Nahum 1:3 ; Numbers 14:12 ; Numbers 16:46-49 ; Psalms 18:7-13 ; Psalms 78:50 ; Psalms 78:51
Before him — When God was leading the Israelites out of Egypt, he made the pestilence go before him, so preparing room for his people.