Habakkuk 3:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

Habakkuk 3:9 —

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selah: — a pause or musical mark (meaning uncertain).

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Psalms 7:12-13
If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. …
Psalms 105:41
He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.
Psalms 78:15-16
He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths. …
Luke 1:72-75
To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; …
Exodus 17:6
Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

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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. 9)

9. bow ... made ... naked--that is, was drawn forth from its cover, in which bows usually were cased when not in use. Compare Is 22:6, “Kir uncovered the shield.” according to the oaths of the tribes even thy word--that is, Thy oaths of promise to the tribes of Israel (Psa 77:8; Lu 1:73, 74). Habakkuk shows that God’s miraculous interpositions for His people were not limited to one time, but that…