Habakkuk 3:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

The sun and moon stood still in their habitation At the command of Joshua. At the light of thine arrows they went Or rather, by their light (namely, the light of the sun and moon) thine arrows flew abroad, and by their shining, thy glittering spear. It was to give the Israelites time for the destruction of their enemies, that God caused the sun and moon to stand still; and while these gave them light, Jehovah sent out his arrows and scattered them, &c., Psalms 18:14. He alludes to God's casting down great hailstones and lightnings from heaven, to discomfit the Amorites: see the margin. Thou didst march, &c. Jehovah is here represented as marching before his people, through the land of Canaan, in his chariot of war, and trampling under foot those that rose up against him; which seems to be the meaning of the second clause, Thou didst thrash, &c.

Habakkuk 3:11-12

11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the lightg of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.

12 Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.