Habakkuk 2:12
Terrible things will happen to you people of Babylonia who kill people [MTY] in order to build cities, cities that you build by using money that you have gotten by committing crimes.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 4:11You have killed your younger brother, and the ground has soaked up his blood. So now I will expel you from this land and curse your efforts to produce crops.
1 Kings 16:34During the years that Ahab ruled, Hiel, a man from Bethel city, rebuilt Jericho city. But when he started to rebuild the city, his oldest son Abiram died. And when the city was finished, while Hiel was building the city gates, his youngest son Segub died. They died just like Yahweh had told Joshua would happen to the sons of anyone who would rebuild Jericho.
Ezekiel 24:9Therefore, this is what I, Yahweh the Lord say: ‘Terrible things will happen to that city that is full of murderers [MTY]! It will be as though I also will pile high the wood in the fire.
Micah 3:10It is as though you are building houses in Jerusalem on foundations that consist of murdering people and doing what is corrupt.
John 11:47So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered all the members of the Jewish Council together. They started saying to each other, “What are we going to do about Jesus? He is performing many miracles!
Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 2:6-15
Judgment Predicted; Judgment of the King of Babylon. ( b. c. 600.) 5 Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people: 6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay! 7 Shall… Read the whole commentary →