Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Habakkuk 3:13-15
Habakkuk 3:13-15. Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people For their deliverance and protection; even for salvation with thine anointed With those appointed and qualified to be leaders and rulers of thy people; such as Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and David. Thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked That is, the heads, or confederate princes, of the Canaanites, Joshua 10:3; Joshua 11:1; by discovering the foundation unto the neck Or, as Green renders it, Thou rasedst... read more
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Habakkuk 3:13
Thou wentest forth - Even a Jew says of this place, Kimchi: “The past is here used for the future; and this is frequent in the language of prophecy; for prophecy, although it be future, yet since it is, as it were, firmly fixed, they use the past concerning it.” The prophet speaks again in the past, perhaps to fix the mind on that signal going-forth, when God destroyed Pharaoh, the first enemy who essayed to destroy the chosen line. This stands at the head of all those dispensations, in which... read more