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Habakuk 2:2

Lalu TUHAN menjawab aku, demikian: "Tuliskanlah penglihatan itu dan ukirkanlah itu pada loh-loh, supaya orang sambil lalu dapat membacanya.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Minister, Christian;   Table;   Vision;   Word of God;   Zeal, Religious;   Scofield Reference Index - Inspiration;   The Topic Concordance - Predestination;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prophets;   Visions;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Habakkuk;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Elect, Election;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Habakkuk;   Writing;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Habakkuk;   Inspiration of Scripture;   Writing;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Habakkuk;   Table, Tablet;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Admonition;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Habakkuk;   Table;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Deuteronomy;   Habakkuk;   Jehoiakim;   Prophecy;   Table;   Tablet;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - God;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for October 5;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lalu TUHAN menjawab aku, demikian: "Tuliskanlah penglihatan itu dan ukirkanlah itu pada loh-loh, supaya orang sambil lalu dapat membacanya.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Pada masa itu sahutlah Tuhan kepadaku, firman-Nya: Suratkanlah khayal ini dan ukirkanlah dia pada loh batu, supaya ia itu dapat dibaca oleh segala orang yang lalu.

Contextual Overview

1 I will stande vpon my watche, and set me vpon the towre, & will loke, and see what he will say vnto me, and what I shall aunswere to him that rebuketh me. 2 And the Lord aunswered me, and said: write the vision, and make it plaine vpon tables, that he may run that readeth it. 3 For the vision is yet for an appoynted time, but at the last it shall speake, and not lye: though it tary, wayte: for it shall surely come, and shall not stay. 4 Behold, he that lifteth vp him selfe, his minde is not vpright in him: but the iust shall liue by his fayth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Write: Deuteronomy 27:8, Deuteronomy 31:19, Deuteronomy 31:22, Isaiah 8:1, Isaiah 30:8, Jeremiah 36:2-4, Jeremiah 36:27-32, Daniel 12:4, Revelation 1:18, Revelation 1:19, Revelation 14:13, Revelation 19:9, Revelation 21:5-8

make: John 11:28, John 11:29, 1 Corinthians 14:19, 2 Corinthians 3:12

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 6:9 - General Nehemiah 8:8 - and gave the sense Isaiah 1:1 - vision Isaiah 21:6 - Go Isaiah 21:8 - I stand Jeremiah 30:2 - General Jeremiah 51:60 - General Ezekiel 2:10 - spread Ezekiel 24:2 - write Daniel 7:1 - he wrote Luke 1:63 - a Hebrews 6:15 - General Revelation 1:11 - What Revelation 10:4 - I was

Cross-References

Genesis 1:31
And God sawe euery thyng that he had made: and beholde, it was exceedyng good. And the euenyng & the mornyng were the sixth day.
Genesis 2:8
And the Lord God planted a garden eastwarde in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had shapen.
Genesis 2:11
The name of ye first is Pison, the same is it that compasseth the whole lande of Hauilah, where there is golde:
Exodus 23:12
Sixe daies thou shalt do thy worke, and in the seuenth day thou shalt rest: that thyne oxe and thyne asse may rest, and the sonne of thy mayde and the straunger may be refreshed.
Exodus 31:17
For it is a signe betweene me and the children of Israel for euer: for in six dayes the Lorde made heauen and earth, and in the seuenth day he rested and was refreshed.
Deuteronomy 5:14
But the seuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lorde thy God: thou shalt not do any worke, thou nor thy sonne, nor thy daughter, nor thy man seruaunt, nor thy mayde, nor thine oxe, nor thine asse, nor any of thy cattell, nor the straunger that is within thy gates: that thy man seruaunt, and thy mayde, may rest as well as thou.
Isaiah 58:13
Yea if thou turne thy feete from the sabbath, so that thou do not the thing whiche pleaseth thy selfe in my holy day, and thou call the pleasaunt, holy, and glorious sabbath of the Lorde, and that thou geue hym the honour, so that thou do not after thyne owne imagination, neither seeke thyne owne wyll, nor speake thyne owne wordes:
John 5:17
And Iesus aunswered them: My father worketh hitherto, and I worke.
Hebrews 4:4
For he spake in a certayne place of the seuenth daye on this wyse: And God dyd rest the seuenth daye from all his workes.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord answered me,.... As he does his ministers and people sooner or later, in one way or another, when they call upon him with humility and reverence, with faith and fervency:

and said, Write the vision; which the prophet now had from him, concerning the coming of the Messiah, and the destruction of the enemies of the church and people of God: and this he has orders to "write"; not only to tell it to the people then present, for their particular information and satisfaction; but to write it, that it may be read over and over, and that it may remain, and be of use in times to come:

and make [it] plain upon tables, engrave it in plain legible letters on tables of wood; on box tree, as the Septuagint version; on which they used to write before paper was found out and used. Writing tables are of ancient use; they were used in and before the times of Homer, for he speaks o of writing very pernicious things on a two leaved table; wherefore Josephus must be mistaken when he suggests p that letters were not found out in the times of Homer. These tables were made of wood, sometimes of one sort, and sometimes of another; sometimes they were made of the pine tree, as appears from Euripides q but, for the most part, of box r, according to the Greek version as above; and consisted sometimes of two leaves, for the most part of three or five, covered with wax s, on which impressions were easily made, and continued long, and were very legible; and these impressions or letters were formed with an iron style or pen; see Jeremiah 17:1 this the Greeks and Tuscans first used, but was afterwards forbidden by the Romans, who, instead of it, ordered an instrument of bone to be used t: hence these tables were wont to be called "wax", because besmeared with it; and so, in wills and testaments written on them, the heirs are said to be written either in the first wax, or in the bottom of the wax u, that is, of the will, or in the lowest part of the table, or what we should call the bottom of the leaf or page: and it was a custom among the Romans, as Cicero w relates, that the public affairs of every year were committed to writing by the Pontifex Maximus, or high priest, and published on a table, and set to view within doors, that the people might have an opportunity and be able to know them; yea, it was usual to hang up laws, approved and recorded, in tables of brass, in their market places, and in their temples, that x they might be seen and read; the same we call annals. In like manner the Jewish prophets used to write and expose their prophecies publicly on tables, either in their own houses, or in the temple, that everyone that passed by might read them.

That he may run that readeth it; may run through the whole without any difficulty, without making any stop, being written in such large capital letters; and those cut so well, and made so plain, that a man might run it over at once with ease, or even read it as he was running; nor need he stop his pace, or stand to read. The Targum is,

"write the prophecy, and explain it in the book of the law, that he may hasten to obtain wisdom, whoever he is that reads in it.''

o γραψας εν πινακι πτυκτω, &c. Homer. Iliad. 6. p Contr. Apion, l. 1. c. 2. q In Hippolito. r "Ergo tam doctae nobis periere tabellae, Non illas fixum charas effeceret aurum, Vulgari buxo sordida cera fuit. Propertius. Buxa crepent cerata------" Prudentius. s Alex. ab Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 2. c. 30. t Isidor. Originum, l. 6. c. 8. u "In ima cera", Sueton. in Vit. Jul. Caesar. c. 83. "in extrema cera", Cicero in Verrem, l. 3. Vid. Alex. ab Alex. ib. l. 1. c. 1. w De Oratore, l. 2. sect. 34. x Taciti Annales, l. 11. c. 14.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The answer is, that it is indeed for a long time yet. Write the vision, that it may remain for those who come after and not be forgotten, and make it plain upon the tables, whereon he was accustomed to write ; and that, in large lasting characters, that he may run that readeth it, that it may be plain to any, however occupied or in haste. So Isaiah too was commanded to write the four words, “haste-prey-speed-spoil.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Habakkuk 2:2. Write the vision — Carefully take down all that I shall say.

Make it plain upon tables — Write it in a full plain, legible hand.

That he may run that readeth it. — That he who attentively peruses it may speed to save his life from the irruption of the Chaldeans, by which so many shall be cut off. The prophet does not mean that the words are to be made so plain, that a man running by may easily read them, and catch their meaning. This interpretation has been frequently given; and it has been incautiously applied to the whole of the Bible: "God's book is so plain, that he that runs may read;" but it is very foolish: God never intends that his words shall be understood by the careless. He that reads, studies, meditates, and prays, shall understand every portion of this sacred book that relates immediately to his own salvation. But no trifler can understand it. If the contents of a play-bill were to be read as many read the Bible, they would know just as much of the one as they do of the other.


 
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