5 ¶ Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and
wonder marvellously: for I will work a awork in your
days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.
6 For, lo, I raise up the
Chaldeansa, that bitter and
hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess
the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.
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6a I raise up the Chaldeans
The Chaldeans has reference to the Babylonians the of course the kingdom of
King Nebuchadnezer. Thus Habakkuk would seem to be a contemporary of Lehi
and living in Jerusalem during that period of time of the wickedness of
Jehoiakim for that is when the people under their wicked king did turn from
that righteousness they had experienced under King Josiah. The Babylonians
were first 'raised up' in the reign of Jehoiakim when they came in upon the
land and submitted the nation of the Jews unto the Babylonian Empire. This
would have been about the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim and when
Daniel the others of his captivity were first taken out of Jerusalem and into
Babylon. This would mean that Habakkuk begins his writings contempory with
Jeremiah and the first years of Jehoiakim and just before the rising up of
the Chaldeans upon Jerusalem. Other seem to want ot place Habakkuk and his
prophecies contemporay with Jehoiachin the son of Jehoiakim. He, like Lehi
and Jeremiah likely transends the times of Josiah, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin and
Zedekiah and thus he could have easily been living along side of Jeremiah and
Lehi during the life of any or all of these kings, but his first 'burden' and
prophecy seems to precede the rising up of Babylon upon Jerusalem which
occurred at the time Daniel was taken into captivity.
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4a
Moses 3:4-5;
Abr. 5:4-5
b
TG
Jesus Christ—Jehovah
5a
TG
Nature, Earth
b
TG
Spirit Creation
c
TG
Creation
d
TG
Man, Physical Creation of
e
Moses 3:5
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