Habakkuk 3:11 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹¹The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.

Habakkuk 3:11 —

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Cross-References

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Psalms 144:5-6
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. …
Joshua 10:11-13
And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword. …
Psalms 18:12-14
At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire. …
Isaiah 28:21
For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
Psalms 77:17-18
The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 3-15)

It has been the usual practice of God’s people, when they have been in distress and ready to fall into despair, to help themselves by recollecting their experiences, and reviving them, considering the days of old, and the years of ancient times (Ps. 77:5), and pleading with God in prayer, as he is pleased sometimes to plead them with himself. Isa. 63:11; Then he remembered the days of old. This is…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 11)

11. sun ... moon stood still--at Joshua’s command (Jos 10:12, 13). Maurer wrongly translates, “stand” (withdrawn, or hidden from view, by the clouds which covered the sky during the thunders). light of thine arrows--hail mixed with lightnings (Jos 10:10, 11). they went--The sun and moon “went,” not as always heretofore, but according to the light and direction of Jehovah’s arrows, namely, His ligh…