Matthew Poole Commentary - Habakkuk 3:3 - 3:3

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Habakkuk 3:3 - 3:3


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God, the God of our fathers, our God, came; appeared, discovered himself, for that is his coming, who, since he fills all places at all times, cannot be said to come by any change of place.



Teman; either appellatively, the south, or else as a proper name of a mountain or country. so called from Teman, son of Eliphaz, and grandson of Esau. It is also called Seir, or is one particular hill among those many which make up Mount Seir. It was not far from Mount Sinai, where the law was given, and the prophet hath respect to that Deu_33:2, where God appeared in a manner equally glorious and terrible,



The Holy One of Israel.



Mount Paran; which was a name to wilderness, plains, and a mountain, of which the prophet here speaketh, and in Deu_33:2 it is said God shined thence. This the prophet mentions as a support of his faith, as an encouragement to others, as a motive why God should renew his work among them, since he so gloriously appeared among their fathers, and made a covenant with them.



Selah: to the argument he addeth this to awaken us to attention.



His glory; lightnings and thunders, and fire and smoke, tokens of the power, majesty, and greatness of God, at the sight whereof Moses himself trembled. Covered, overspread, intercepted, and obscured, the heavens; that part of the visible heavens under which Israel then encamped.



The earth, that part of the earth where this was done,



was full of his praise; of works which deserved then, and still do deserve, to be had in remembrance, with praise to God who did them.