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Habakkuk 2:20 - Exposition

The prophet contrasts the majesty of Jehovah with these dumb and lifeless idols. His holy temple. Not the shrine at Jerusalem, but heaven itself (see Psalms 11:4 , and note on Micah 1:2 ). Let all the earth keep silence before him. Like subjects in the presence of their king, awaiting his judgment and the issue to which all these things tend (comp. Habakkuk 2:14 ; Psalms 76:8 , etc.; Zephaniah 1:7 ; Zechariah 2:13 ). Septuagint, εὀλαβείσθω ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτοῦ , κ . τ . λ , "Let all the earth fear before him."

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Rev. Joseph S. Exell M.A. served as the editor of Clerical World, The Homiletical Quarterly and the Monthly Interpreter. Exell was also the editor for several other large commentary sets like The Men of the Bible, The Preacher's Homiletic Library and The Biblical Illustrator. Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones was the Vicar and Rural Dean of St. Pancras, London and the principal of Gloucester Theological College.... Show more

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Habakkuk 2:20 - Exposition

Habakkuk 2:20 - Exposition

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