Habakkuk 2:10
Thou hast consulted shame to thine owne house, by destroying many people, and hast sinned against thine owne soule.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
In Context
11For the stone shall crie out of the wall, and the beame out of the timber shall answere it.
Cross References
1 Kings 2:23Then King Salomon sware by the Lord, saying, God doe so to me and more also, if Adoniiah hath not spoken this worde against his owne life.
2 Kings 10:7And when the letter came to them, they tooke the Kings sonnes, and slewe the seuentie persons, and layde their heads in baskets, and sent them vnto him to Izreel.
Isaiah 33:11Ye shall conceiue chaffe, and bring forth stubble: the fire of your breath shall deuoure you.
Jeremiah 26:19Did Hezekiah King of Iudah, and all Iudah put him to death? did he not feare ye Lord, and prayed before the Lord, and the Lord repented him of the plague, that he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great euill against our soules.
Nahum 1:14And the Lord hath giuen a commandement concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sowen: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the grauen, and the molten image: I will make it thy graue for thee, for thou art vile.
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 →