Book of Habakkuk
- Isaiah
- Jeremiah
- Lamentations
- Baruch including letter of Jeremiah
- Ezekiel (Ezekiel )
- Book of Daniel ( accessories)
- Hosea
- Joel
- Amos
- Obadiah
- Jonah
- Micha
- Nahum
- Habakkuk
- Zephaniah
- Haggai
- Zechariah
- Malachi
Habakkuk is a biblical prophet. His eponymous font is part of the Twelve Prophets of the Jewish Tanakh and the Christian Old Testament. In the Septuagint and the Vulgate it is called Ambakoum.
Author
Little is known about Habakkuk. His psalm with instruction to its presentation may suggest that he was of Levitical singers.
He is probably not identical with the helper of the Prophet Daniel in the lions' den, of the Notes to the apocryphal Book of Daniel ( Dan 14.33 to 39 EU) fifty years after its formation is discussed.
His feast day is December 2nd Catholic or January 15, Armenian December 3, Coptic May 19 The name (Hebrew ) means "the hugger ".
Dating
At the time of Habakkuk the temple was still present (Hab 2.20 EU). The threat posed by the growing power of the Chaldeans indicates the end of the 7th century BC, the time of kings Josiah and Jehoiakim. Thus Habakkuk was a contemporary of Jeremiah.
Content
The book has two parts, the narrative chapters 1 and 2 and a psalm (Chapter 3), The narrative takes the form of a dialogue between Habakkuk and God.
Important points
Hab 2:4 EU is mentioned in the New Testament in Romans 1.17 EU, Gal 3:11 and Heb 10:38 EU EU:
" Behold, the Inflated, insincere his soul is in him; but the righteous shall live by his faith. "