Habakkuk 2:10

Thou hast counseled shame to thy house—making an end of many peoples, and endangering thine own life.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

9Alas! for him who extorteth an extortion of wrong for his own house,—that he may set on high his nest, that he may be delivered from the grasp of calamity.

11Surely, the stone out of the wall, will make outcry,—and, the tie out of the timber, will answer it.

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Cross References

1 Kings 2:23Then swore King Solomon by Yahweh, saying,—So, let God do to me, and, so, let him add, if, at the cost of his life, Adonijah hath not spoken this word.

2 Kings 10:7And it came to pass, when the letter reached them, that they took the sons of the king, and slew them, seventy persons,—and put their heads in baskets, and sent unto him to Jezreel.

Proverbs 8:36But, he that misseth me, wrongeth his own soul, all who hate me, love death.

Isaiah 33:11Ye shall conceive chaff Ye shall bring forth stubble,—Your own breath, like fire, shall devour you.

Jeremiah 26:19Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put, him to death? Did he not revere Yahweh, and appease the face of Yahweh? And did not Yahweh repent him, as to the calamity which he had spoken against them? We, therefore are doing a great wickedness against our own lives!

Nahum 1:14Then will Yahweh give command concerning thee, None of thy name shall be sown any more,—out of the house of thy gods, will I cut off carved image and molten image, I will appoint thy grave, for thou art of little esteem.

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 →

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