habakkuk-1:14-16-niv

Sermon Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 1:16

Habakkuk 1:16 The word "drag" simply means a large fishing-net. The bold metaphor of the text is that of a fisherman whose mind is so overborne by the large draughts of fish which he is continually taking, that he begins actually to worship those nets which are the instruments of such wonderful success. I. The sin of man keeps repeating itself throughout the ages. Notwithstanding all the lessons of the past, there are still multitudes who forget the living God. They are not at all anxious to be... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 1:1-17

Shall we turn at this time to the book of Habakkuk.Very little is known concerning the personal background of Habakkuk. Very little, nothing is known. We don't know really anything about his background. There are indications from the book itself that he was of a priestly family, perhaps one of the priests in Israel. He addresses the last chapter, which is a psalm, he addresses it to, "the chief singer on my stringed instrument." And that was usually the place of the priests who were, many of... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Habakkuk 1:1-17

Habakkuk 1:1 . The burden, the prophecy, which Habakkuk the prophet saw. Here he opens his commission, as divinely inspired with vision, and invested with a charge which he must deliver. God laid the burden of Israel, and of all the surrounding nations on his prophets, as he now charges ministers with the cure of souls. Habakkuk 1:2 . Oh Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear. Manasseh continued to shed innocent blood, from one end of Jerusalem to the other. 2 Kings 21:16.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Habakkuk 1:14-17

Habakkuk 1:14-17And makest men as the fishes of the sea Rapacious selfishness in powerIllustrated in Nebuchadnezzar.Selfishness is the root and essence of sin. All unregenerate men are therefore more or less selfish, and rapacity is an instinct of selfishness. Selfishness hungers for the things of others.I. It practically ignores the rights of man as man. “And makest man as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them.” The Babylonian tyrant did not see in the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Habakkuk 1:16

Habakkuk 1:16Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense to their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.Self-worshipNebuchadnezzar is here represented as gathering the people into his net, and then, forgetting that he was only an instrument, doing homage to his own power and skill, as though they had won for him the victory.1. The most numerous illustrations of this spirit are those which may be found in the conduct of our secular work. The... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Habakkuk 1:14

Hab 1:14 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, [that have] no ruler over them? Ver. 14. And makest men as the fishes of the sea ] That are easily drawn out with hook or net. So doth Nebuchadnezzar, with little ado, bring whole nations under his power and pleasure. Here, therefore, saith Drusius, Nebuchadnezzar is the fisher, the world is the sea, men are the fishes, the armies and arts of the Chaldees are called the net, drag, hook, to the which Nebuchadnezzar... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Habakkuk 1:15

Hab 1:15 They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad. Ver. 15. They take up all of them with the angle ] No less than all will serve their turns or satisfy their ambition; as we read of Alexander, who wept that there was but one world for him to conquer; Julius Caesar, who would be aut Caesar, aut nullus; either Caesar or nothing, this Nebuchadnezzar in the text, fitly compared to a greedy... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Habakkuk 1:16

Hab 1:16 Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion [is] fat, and their meat plenteous. Ver. 16. Therefore they sacrifice to their net ] Thus wicked men grow worse and worse; their sin is infinite; what marvel, then, if their punishment be also infinite in hell? To all other their iniquities these Chaldeans add this of abominable idolatry, they sacrifice to themselves, as Sejanus did, Seianus sibi sacrificabat (Dio), to their net,... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Habakkuk 1:14

creeping: or, moving no: Proverbs 6:7 Reciprocal: Job 9:24 - earth Ecclesiastes 9:12 - as the fishes Isaiah 59:15 - he that Jeremiah 5:26 - lay wait Jeremiah 16:16 - I will send Ezekiel 29:4 - the fish Ezekiel 32:3 - General read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Habakkuk 1:15

take: Jeremiah 16:16, Ezekiel 29:4, Ezekiel 29:5, Amos 4:2, Matthew 17:27 they catch: Psalms 10:9, Luke 5:5-2 Samuel :, John 21:6-1 Kings : drag: or, flue-net therefore: Jeremiah 50:11, Lamentations 2:15, Lamentations 2:16, Ezekiel 25:6, Ezekiel 26:2, Ezekiel 35:15, Revelation 11:10 Reciprocal: Job 21:7 - Wherefore Job 21:14 - they say Proverbs 2:14 - rejoice Proverbs 12:12 - desireth Isaiah 19:8 - General Jeremiah 5:26 - lay wait Daniel 4:30 - Is not Hosea 5:1 - ye have Amos 6:13 - which... read more

Sermon Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 1:16

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Habakkuk 1:1-17

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Habakkuk 1:1-17

The Biblical Illustrator - Habakkuk 1:14-17

The Biblical Illustrator - Habakkuk 1:16

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Habakkuk 1:14

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Habakkuk 1:15

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Habakkuk 1:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Habakkuk 1:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Habakkuk 1:15

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