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<p align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>INTRODUCTION
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<p style="font-size: 85%; text-align: center">(See "<a href="./Comm/jfb/intro_prophetical.html" target="_blank">Introduction to the Prophetical Books</a>")
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<p id="Introduction">HABAKKUK, from a <i>Hebrew</i> root meaning to "embrace," denoting a "favorite" (namely, of God) and a "struggler" (for his country's good). Some ancient authors represent him as belonging to the tribe of Levi; others [PSEUDO EPIPHANIUS], to that of Simeon. The inscription to Bel and the dragon in the <i>Septuagint</i> asserts the former; and <a onclick="return mV('Hab',3,19);">Hab 3:19</a> perhaps favors this. EUSEBIUS [<i>Ecclesiastical History,</i> 7.29] states that in his time Habakkuk's tomb was shown at Ceila in Palestine.
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<p>The time seems to have been about 610 B.C. For the Chaldeans attacked Jerusalem in the ninth month of the fifth year of Jehoiakim, 605 B.C. (<a onclick="return mV('2Ki',24,1);">2Ki 24:1</a>; <a onclick="return mV('2Ch',36,6);">2Ch 36:6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',46,2);">Jer 46:2</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',36,9);">36:9</a>). And Habakkuk (<a onclick="return mV('Hab',1,5,6);">Hab 1:5-6</a>, etc.) speaks of the Chaldeans as about to invade Judah, but not as having actually done so. In the second chapter he proceeds to comfort his people by foretelling the humiliation of their conquerors, and that the vision will soon have its fulfilment. In the third chapter the prophet in a sublime ode celebrates the deliverances wrought by Jehovah for His people in times past, as the ground of assurance, notwithstanding all their existing calamities, that He will deliver them again. <a onclick="return mV('Hab',3,16);">Hab 3:16</a> shows that the invader is still coming, and not yet arrived; so that the whole refers to the invasion in Jehoiakim's times, not those under Jehoiachin and Zedekiah. The Apocryphal appendix to Daniel states that he lived to see the Babylonian exile (588 B.C.), which accords with his prophesying early in Jehoiakim's reign, about 610 B.C.
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<p>The position of the book immediately after Nahum is appropriate; as Nahum treated of the judgments of the Lord on Assyria, for its violence against Israel, so Habakkuk, those inflicted by, and on, the Chaldeans for the same reason.
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<p>The style is poetical and sublime. The parallelisms are generally regular. Borrowed ideas occur (compare <a onclick="return mV('Hab',3,19);">Hab 3:19</a>, with <a onclick="return mV('Psa',18,33);">Psa 18:33</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Hab',2,6);">Hab 2:6</a>, with <a onclick="return mV('Isa',14,4);">Isa 14:4</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Hab',2,14);">Hab 2:14</a>, with <a onclick="return mV('Isa',11,9);">Isa 11:9</a>). The ancient catalogues imply that his book is part of the canon of Scripture. In the New Testament, <a onclick="return mV('Rom',1,17);">Rom 1:17</a> (though not naming him); compare also <a onclick="return mV('Gal',3,11);">Gal 3:11</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Hbr',10,38);">Hbr 10:38</a>. <a onclick="return mV('Act',13,40,41);">Act 13:40-41</a>. One or two <i>Hebrew</i> words peculiar to Habakkuk occur (<a onclick="return mV('Hab',1,9);">Hab 1:9</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Hab',2,6,16);">2:6, 16</a>).
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