Habakkuk 1:5-11
“For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.”
King James Version
God raising up Babylon as his instrument of judgment against Judah, Habakkuk's great theological puzzle.
Fulfillment References
2 Kings 24:2 Jeremiah 25:9 Habakkuk 1:6
How Traditions Read This Prophecy
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