HABAKKUK (Minor Prophets)

HABAKKUK wrote about the Chaldeans (Babylon). There is a tradition that he was a guard of the Temple and taken captive to Babylon and remined in a prison. Later, in his old age, he was said to have been released by Persia when they conquered Babylon. His supposed tomb is still in Iran (Persia) to this day. Habakkuk predicts Babylon (Chaldeans) will be used by God to punish them - For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs. Habakkuk 1:6 He questions the use of idols - What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols? Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Habakkuk 2:18,19 In summary - But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him. Habakkuk 2:20