Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898)
HAB'AKKUK, or HABBAK'KUK (embrace), one of the twelve minor prophets, of whose birth we know neither the time nor the place. He lived in the reign of Jehoiakim or of Josiah. Prophecy of, relates chiefly to the invasion of Judaea by the Chalditans, Hab 1, and the subsequent punishment of the Chaldajans themselves, ch. Hab 2. The passage Hab 2:4, "the just shall live by his faith," furnished to Paul the text for his Epistle to the Romans. Rom 1:17; comp. Gal 3:11. The third chapter is an eloquent and sublime psalm upon the majesty of God.
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