Habakkuk 2:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.

Write, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 27:8). App-47 and App-92.

the vision. Supply the logical Ellipsis: "[which. am about to reveal to thee]". Compare Habakkuk 1:1.

upon tables: i.e. boxwood tables smeared with wax. Compare Luke 1:63.

that he may run that readeth it. that he that readeth it may flee. Hebrew. ruz. to run as. messenger (Job 9:25.Jeremiah 23:21; Jeremiah 51:31.Zechariah 2:4; Zechariah 2:4); or, to flee for refuge (Psalms 18:10), as in Haggai 1:9.

Habakkuk 2:2

2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.