Habakkuk 2:10
Thou hast counselled a shameful thing to thy house, To cut off many peoples, and sinful [is] thy soul.
Young's Literal Translation
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 a stone from the wall doth cry out, And a holdfast from the wood answereth it.
Cross References
1 Kings 2:23And king Solomon sweareth by Jehovah, saying, 'Thus doth God to me, and thus He doth add — surely against his soul hath Adonijah spoken this word;
2 Kings 10:7And it cometh to pass, at the coming in of the letter unto them, that they take the sons of the king, and slaughter seventy men, and put their heads in baskets, and send unto him to Jezreel,
Proverbs 8:36And whoso is missing me, is wronging his soul, All hating me have loved death!
Isaiah 33:11Ye conceive chaff, ye bear stubble, Your spirit! — fire devoureth you.
Jeremiah 26:19'Put him at all to death did Hezekiah king of Judah, and all Judah? Did he not fear Jehovah? yea, he appeaseth the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah repenteth concerning the evil that He spake against them; and we are doing great evil against our souls.
Nahum 1:14And commanded concerning thee hath Jehovah, 'No more of thy name doth spread abroad, From the house of thy gods I cut off graven and molten image, I appoint thy grave, for thou hast been 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 →