The Divided Kingdom
- When
- c. 609–598 BC
- Written by
- Habakkuk
- Chapters
- 3
The big idea
A prophet asks why God allows evil, then why he would use cruel Babylon. God answers that the just shall live by faith, and Habakkuk ends in joyful trust.
Themes
- Honest questions
- Justice in God’s time
- Living by faith
- Joy in hardship
Memory verse
Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Key passages
- 1:2–4How long, O Lord?
- 2:1–4The vision and the just man
- 2:14The earth filled with knowledge
- 3:17–19Yet I will rejoice
Links to other Scripture
- Romans 1:17The just shall live by faith
- Galatians 3:11Not by the law
- Hebrews 10:37–38Yet a little while
- Philippians 4:11–13Content in all things
Read the text
Choose a chapter to read it here in the King James Version. Verses with a dotted underline have notes from Bible scholars. Tap one to open them.
Notes from
Chapters
King James text and the commentaries of Henry, Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Gill, Clarke, Calvin, and Keil and Delitzsch are in the public domain. Tyndale Open Study Notes are used under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license, from tyndaleopenresources.com. Texts were reformatted for this site.
Journal prompts
Keep a journal or notebook for your study. Write your answers there, in your own words.
- Where do you see Christ in this book?
- Habakkuk asks, “How long?” What have you been asking God that way?
- God answers that the just shall live by his faith. What does living by faith, and not by sight, look like in a current decision?
- Habakkuk ends with “Yet I will rejoice in the LORD.” Write your own “though… yet” prayer using something you are facing now.
- In one sentence, this book is about…