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Habakkuk 1:9 Cross-References
Explore 19 cross-references for Habakkuk 1:9 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Habakkuk chapter 1 verse 9 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand. their: or, the supping up of their faces, etc: or, their faces shall look (Heb. the opposition of their faces) toward the east”
Habakkuk 1:9 (KJV)
Commentary on Habakkuk 1:9
They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand. The Chaldean invasion has a singular purpose: violence (חָמָס/chamas)—not merely military conquest but brutal devastation. This is the same word Habakkuk used in his initial complaint (1:2-3) about violence in Judah. Now God responds that He will judge Judah's violence through an even more violent nation—a troubling answer that intensifies the theodicy problem.Their faces shall sup up as the east wind (מְגַמַּת פְּנֵיהֶם קָדִימָה/megammat peneihem qadimah)—a difficult H...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Habakkuk 1:9
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“I will send and take all the families of the north”
“and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way”
“they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up”
“very much”
“behold”
“'I shall die in my own house”
“I will bring a nation on you from far”
“behold”
“I will command”
“If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;,Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:,,,,,,,,”