Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Habakkuk 3:5
Before him: when God was leading the Israelites out of Egypt into Canaan, he made the pestilence to go before him, so preparing room for his people. The pestilence, which wasted the inhabitants of Canaan, swept them out. Burning coals; burning fevers, and other distempers of fiery and destructive nature, which destroyed the accursed nations. Went forth; as sent, and observing the way he directed. At his feet; kept even pace, or waited on him, were his immediate forerunners. All this mentioned... read more
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Habakkuk 3:4
His brightness, that lustre in which God appeared, that unparalleled splendour which shined from him, was as the light; pure, clear as the sun, but much more dazzling and overcoming. Horns: some read it beams or rays of light, and so the Hebrew will bear, and thus it is plain. Out of his hand: our God is all glory and light; Moses’s face shined; the face, yea hands, of our God shine with glorious light; he dwelleth in light. There; either in that place where he thus appeared, or in that light... read more