The Strand Study Bible

HABAKKUK 3:12

HABAKKUK 3:19

1417

18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. 19 The LORD 4 God is my 5 strength, and he will make my feet like 6 hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.

12 1 Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger. 13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah. 14 Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their re- joicing was as to devour the poor secretly. 15 Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters. The promise of Judah and Jerusalem’s fall to Babylo n (Fulfilled - II Kings 25 - 586 BC) 16 When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trou- ble: when he cometh up unto the people, 2 he will invade themwith his troops. P 17 Although the 3 fig tree 2 shall not blos- som, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: P

1. Josh 12 2. Fulfilled - II Ki 25 (Fall of Judah) 3. that is, “Israel shall be down for a time” 4. or, “Divine Ruler” 5. II Sam 22:33-34 & Psa 18:32-33 6. or, “gazelles’ feet, symbolizing

MEDITERRANEAN SEA

surefooted confidence”

LEBANNON

•

Jerusalem

EDOM

EGYPT

RED SEA

MIDIAN

CUSHAN

Different places mentioned in Habakkuk Map #250

READ NEXT - II Kings 24:1 PROPHETICAL EVENTS IN HABAKKUK

Prophecies

Fulfilled

Approximately 21 years later, Judah and Jerusalem fell to Babylon II Ki 25 (586 BC)

The promise of Judah and Jerusalem’s fall to Babylon Hab 1:5-2:3,16,17 & 3:16,17 (c. 607 BC) The promise of Christ’s redemptive work Hab 1:5 (c. 607 BC) The promise of Babylon’s fall to Medo-Persia Hab 2:6-12 (c. 607 BC) The promise of a Kingdom where Christ will rule Hab 2:14 (c. 607 BC)

Approximately 639 years later, Christ died for all sinners Mt 27:45,46,50 (AD 32) Approximately 68 years later, Babylon fell to Medo-Persia Dan 5:30,31 (539BC)

To be fulfilled in the Millennium Rev 20:4,6

NOTES OF INTEREST IN HABAKKUK HABAKKUK is quoted in the NT 5 times .

1. Hab 1:5 - Acts 13:41 2. Hab 2:3 - Heb 10:37 3. Hab 2:4 - Rom 1:17 4. Hab 2:4 - Gal 3:11 5. Hab 2:4 - Heb 10:38