Study 0 From the Book of Habakkuk is: The Introduction of the
book of Habakkuk
Introduction: We know nothing about Habakkuk himself except that
he was a prophet, and the only clear historical reference in the book is to the
Chaldeans in 1:6, on the basis of which a date just after the Battle of
Carchemish (605 BC) is suggested, when this ‘bitter and hasty’ nation was
marching westwards to subjugate Jehoiakim, king Judah. Habakkuk was thus a
contemporary of Jeremiah, but the two men were very different. Jeremiah’s
problem was how God could destroy his people. Habakkuk’s problem was how God
could use so evil a nation as the Chaldeans as His instrument (cf. Isaiah and
the Assyrians). The problem is set forth
in chapter 1, and God’s answer is given in chapters 2 and 3 in words of
extraordinary depth and grandeur.
