Habakkuk 1:10
He makes little of kings, rulers are a sport to him; all the strong places are to be laughed at; for he makes earthworks and takes them.
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11Then his purpose will be changed, over-stepping the limit; he will make his strength his god.
Cross References
2 Kings 25:6And they made the king a prisoner and took him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah to be judged.
2 Chronicles 36:10In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and took him away to Babylon, with the beautiful vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah, his father's brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 30:5This is what the Lord has said: A voice of shaking fear has come to our ears, of fear and not of peace.
Jeremiah 33:4For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said about the houses of this town and the houses of the kings of Judah, which have been broken down to make earthworks and ...;
Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 1:6-12
Judgment Predicted. ( b. c. 600.) 5 Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you. 6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling-places that are not theirs. 7 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves. 8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more… Read the whole commentary →