Habakkuk 3:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.

Habakkuk 3:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 15:14-16
The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina. …
Genesis 25:1-4
Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah. …
Genesis 10:6-7
And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. …
Psalms 83:5-10
For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: …
Joshua 2:10
For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.

Topics

Armies Cush Cushan Ethiopia Midianites Sin

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. 7)

7. the tents--that is, the dwellers. Cushan--the same as Cush; made “Cush-an” to harmonize with “Midi-an” in the parallel clause. So Lotan is found in the Hebrew of Genesis for Lot. Bochart therefore considers it equivalent to Midian, or a part of Arabia. So in Nu 12:1, Moses’ Midianite wife is called an Ethiopian (Hebrew, Cushite). Maurer thinks the dwellers on both sides of the Arabian Gulf, or…