ハバクク書 2:2 JC

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 2:1-5

Second complaint and answer (1:12-2:5)Habakkuk replies to God by asking a further question. If Judah is God’s people for ever, and if God is holy, how can he use Babylon to punish Judah when the Babylonians are more wicked than the Judeans (12-13)? It seems to Habakkuk that God has the same standards as the Babylonians. They treat the people of nations as if they were no better than fish in the sea - there to be caught for the fisherman’s enjoyment (14-15). The Babylonians’ power is their god.... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Habakkuk 2:2

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 I 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 a messenger (Job 9:25 .Jeremiah 23:21 ; Jeremiah 51:31 .Zechariah 2:4; Zechariah 2:4 ); or, to flee for... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Habakkuk 2:2

"And Jehovah answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, that he may run that readeth it."Habakkuk was instructed to "write" the vision in order to assure its availability for all future generations, because the message was intended to bless all succeeding generations of mankind."That he may run that readeth it ..." is usually taken to mean that even the casual reader may understand it, as in the sense of Kebble's hymn, "There is a book, who runs may read"; but,... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Habakkuk 2:2

2. Write the vision—which I am about to reveal to thee. make it plain— ( :-). In large legible characters. upon tables—boxwood tables covered with wax, on which national affairs were engraved with an iron pen, and then hung up in public, at the prophets' own houses, or at the temple, that those who passed might read them. Compare :-, "writing table," that is, tablet. that he may run that readeth it—commonly explained, "so intelligible as to be easily read by any one running past"; but then it... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Habakkuk 2:1-3

1. The introduction to the answer 2:1-3 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Habakkuk 2:2

Yahweh did respond and told the prophet to make a permanent, easy-to-read record of the vision, which He would give him, on tablets (of clay, stone, or metal; cf. Exodus 31:18; Exodus 32:15-16; Deuteronomy 9:10; Deuteronomy 27:8). Having received and recorded the vision, Habakkuk, and other messengers, should then run to tell their fellow citizens what God’s answer was."The matter was to be made so clear that whoever read it might run and publish it." [Note: Kerr, p. 876. Cf. Daniel 12:4.] "It... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Habakkuk 2:2-20

II. HABAKKUK’S QUESTIONS AND YAHWEH’S ANSWERS 1:2-2:20The prophet asked Yahweh two questions and received two answers. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Habakkuk 2:1-20

Faith Triumphant1-4. The view from the watchtower.1. The prophet climbs his tower, for he must reach a vantage point, if he is to contemplate with real understanding and insight the confusion about his feet, i.e. occasioned by Chaldean aggressiveness and indifference to right. The tower is not, of course, a literal tower—some high and lonely place to which the prophet may retire; it simply suggests the inner light of revelation, by the aid of which he contemplates the perplexing situation. The... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Habakkuk 2:2

(2) On tables.—Better, on the tables. The definite article probably indicates certain well-known tables on which the prophets were wont to inscribe their utterances for public edification. These tables may have been hung up in the Temple (Calvin) or market-place (Luther and Ewald).That he may run that readeth it—i.e., the prophecy is to be inscribed plainly and legibly, so that the reader may “run his eye” quickly through it. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Habakkuk 2:1-20

The Free-thinker Among the Prophets Habakkuk 2:1 Tradition has much to tell of Habakkuk the Prophet, but history has nothing. He belongs to a class who have made history; he is the kind of man whom God sends to usher in new stages, and launch new epochs of knowledge and action. Look at the spirit of his questioning. I. It was a temper which, with all its daring, was always reverent, and in its utter frankness was completely sincere. This man never rails against God; he is never irreverent,... read more

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 2:1-5

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Habakkuk 2:2

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Habakkuk 2:2

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Habakkuk 2:2

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Habakkuk 2:1-3

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Habakkuk 2:2

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Habakkuk 2:2-20

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Habakkuk 2:1-20

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Habakkuk 2:2

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Habakkuk 2:1-20

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