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Habacuc 1:1
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LA carga que vi� Habacuc profeta.
La carga que vio Habacuc profeta.
La carga que vio Habacuc profeta.
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Isaiah 22:1, Nahum 1:1
Reciprocal: Isaiah 2:1 - saw Isaiah 13:1 - burden Jeremiah 23:33 - What Micah 1:1 - which Malachi 1:1 - burden
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. This prophecy is called a "burden", or something took up and carried, being what the prophet received from the Lord, and went with to the people of the Jews, and was a heavy burdensome prophecy to them; declaring the calamities that should come upon them by the Chaldeans, who would invade their land, and carry them captive; and Habakkuk, that brought this account, is called a "prophet", to give the greater sanction to it; and it was what he had in vision from the Lord represented unto him, and therefore should be credited. Abarbinel inquires why Habakkuk should be called a prophet, when none of the lesser prophets are, excepting Haggai and Zechariah; and thinks the reason of it is, to give weight to his prophecy, since it might be suspected by some whether he was one; there being none of those phrases to be met with in this prophecy as in others, as "the word of the Lord came", &c. or "thus saith the Lord".
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The burden - On the word “burden” see the note at Nahum 1:1.
Which Habakkuk the prophet did see - The prophet’s name signifies “strong embrace.” The word in its intensive form is used both of God’s enfolding the soul within His tender supporting love , and of man clinging and holding fast to divine wisdom Proverbs 4:8. It fits in with the subject of his prophecy, faith, cleaving fast to God amid the perplexities of things seen. Dion.: “He who is spiritually Habakkuk, cleaving fast to God with the arms of love, or enfolding Him after the manner of one holily wrestling, until he is blessed, enlightened, and heard by Him, is the seer here.” “Let him who would in such wise fervidly embrace God and plead with Him as a friend, praying earnestly for the deliverance and consolation of himself and others, but who sees not as yet, that his prayer is heard, make the same holy plaint, and appeal to the clemency of the Creator.” (Jer. Abarbanel has the like: “He strengthens himself in pleading his cause with God as to the prosperity of Nebuchadnezzar as if he were joined with God for the cause of his people” Preface to Ezekiel). “He is called ‘embrace’ either because of his love to the Lord; or because he engages in a contest and strife and (so to speak) wrestling with God.” For no one with words so bold ventured to challenge God to a discussion of His justice and to say to Him, “Why, in human affairs and the government of this world is there so great injustice?”
The prophet - The title, “the prophet,” is added only to the names of Habakkuk, Haggai, Zechariah. Habakkuk may have added it to his name instead because he prominently expostulates with God, like the Psalmists, and does not speak in the name of God to the people. The title asserts that he exercised the pastoral office of the prophets, although not directly in this prophecy.
Did see - Cyril: “God multiplied visons, as is written Hosea 12:10, and Himself spoke to the prophets, disclosing to them beforehand what should be, and all but exhibiting them to sight, as if already present. But that they determined not to speak from their own, but rather transmit to us the words from God, he persuades us at the outset, naming himself a prophet, and showing himself full of the grace belonging thereto.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET HABAKKUK
Chronological Notes relative to this Book, upon the supposition that it was written a little before the destruction of Jerusalem, about six hundred years before the commencement of the Christian era.
-Year from the Creation, according to Archbishop Usher, 3404.
-Year of the Julian Period, 4114.
-Year since the Flood, 1748.
-Year since the vocation of Abram, 1321.
-Year from the foundation of Solomon's temple, 412.
-Year since the division of Solomon's monarchy into the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, 376.
-First year of the forty-fifth Olympiad.
-Year since the destruction of the kingdom of Israel by Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, 121.
-Year before the birth of Jesus Christ, 596.
-Year before the vulgar era of Christ's nativity, 600.
-Cycle of the Sun, 26.
-Cycle of the Moon, 10.
-Third year of AEropas, king of Macedon.
-Twentieth year of Alyattes II., king of Lydia.
-Twenty-sixth year of Cyaxares or Cyaraxes, king of Media.
-Sixth year of Agasicles, king of Lacedaemon, of the family of the Proclidae.
-Eighth year of Leon, king of Lacedaemon, of the family of the Eurysthenidae.
-Seventh year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon.
-Seventeenth year of Tarquinius Priscus, king of the Romans.
-Eleventh year of Jehoiakim, king of Judah.
CHAPTER I
The prophet enters very abruptly on his subject, his spirit
being greatly indignant at the rapid progress of vice and
impiety, 1-4.
Upon which God is introduced threatening very awful and sudden
judgments to be indicted by the ministry of the Chaldeans,
5-10.
The Babylonians attribute their wonderful successes to their
idols, 11.
The prophet then, making a sudden transition, expostulates with
God (probably personating the Jews) for permitting a nation
much more wicked than themselves, as they supposed, to oppress
and devour them, as fishers and fowlers do their prey, 12-17.
We know little of this prophet; for what we find in the ancients concerning him is evidently fabulous, as well as that which appears in the Apocrypha. He was probably of the tribe of Simeon, and a native of Beth-zacar. It is very likely that he lived after the destruction of Nineveh, as he speaks of the Chaldeans, but makes no mention of the Assyrians. And he appears also to have prophesied before the Jewish captivity, see Habakkuk 1:5; Habakkuk 2:1; Habakkuk 3:2; Habakkuk 3:16-19; and therefore Abp. Newcome thinks he may be placed in the reign of Jehoiakim, between the years 606 B.C. and 598 B.C.
As a poet, Habakkuk holds a high rank among the Hebrew prophets. The beautiful connection between the parts of his prophecy, its diction, imagery, spirit, and sublimity, cannot be too much admired; and his hymn, Habakkuk 3:1-19, is allowed by the best judges to be a masterpiece of its kind. See Lowth's Praelect. xxi., xxviii.
NOTES ON CHAP. I
Verse Habakkuk 1:1. The burden — המשא hammassa signifies not only the burdensome prophecy, but the prophecy or revelation itself which God presented to the mind of Habakkuk, and which he saw - clearly perceived, in the light of prophecy, and then faithfully declared, as this book shows. The word signifies an oracle or revelation in general; but chiefly, one relative to future calamities.
