Habakkuk 3:12 Cross References

Habakkuk 3:12

12: You marched across the land in awesome anger and trampled the nations in your fury.

For the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: "Babylon is like wheat on a threshing floor, about to be trampled. In just a little while her harvest will begin."

But they do not know the LORD's thoughts or understand his plan. These nations don't know that he is gathering them together to be beaten and trampled like bundles of grain on a threshing floor.
"Rise up and destroy the nations, O Jerusalem!" says the LORD. "For I will give you iron horns and bronze hooves, so you can trample many nations to pieces. Then you will give all the wealth they acquired as offerings to me, the Lord of all the earth."

"Then you helped our ancestors conquer great kingdoms and many nations, and you placed your people in every corner of the land. They completely took over the land of King Sihon of Heshbon and the land of King Og of Bashan.
You made their descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and brought them into the land you had promised to their ancestors.
They went in and took possession of the land. You subdued whole nations before them. Even the kings and the Canaanites, who inhabited the land, were powerless! Your people could deal with them as they pleased.

O God, we have heard it with our own ears--our ancestors have told us of all you did in other days, in days long ago:
You drove out the pagan nations and gave all the land to our ancestors; you crushed their enemies, setting our ancestors free.
They did not conquer the land with their swords; it was not their own strength that gave them victory. It was by your mighty power that they succeeded; it was because you favored them and smiled on them.

He drove out the nations before them; he gave them their inheritance by lot. He settled the tribes of Israel into their homes.

Then he destroyed seven nations in Canaan and gave their land to Israel as an inheritance.

But King Sihon refused to let them cross his land. Instead, he mobilized his entire army and attacked Israel in the wilderness, engaging them in battle at Jahaz.
But the Israelites slaughtered them and occupied their land from the Arnon River to the Jabbok River. They went only as far as the Ammonite border because the boundary of the Ammonites was fortified.
So Israel captured all the towns of the Amorites and settled in them, including the city of Heshbon and its surrounding villages.
Heshbon had been the capital of King Sihon of the Amorites. He had conquered a former Moabite king and seized all his land as far as the Arnon River.
For this reason the ancient poets wrote this about him: "Come to Heshbon, city of Sihon! May it be restored and rebuilt.

Now the gates of Jericho were tightly shut because the people were afraid of the Israelites. No one was allowed to go in or out.
But the LORD said to Joshua, "I have given you Jericho, its king, and all its mighty warriors.
Your entire army is to march around the city once a day for six days.
Seven priests will walk ahead of the Ark, each carrying a ram's horn. On the seventh day you are to march around the city seven times, with the priests blowing the horns.
When you hear the priests give one long blast on the horns, have all the people give a mighty shout. Then the walls of the city will collapse, and the people can charge straight into the city."

You will be a new threshing instrument with many sharp teeth. You will tear all your enemies apart, making chaff of mountains.

This is what the LORD says: "The people of Damascus have sinned again and again, and I will not forget it. I will not let them go unpunished any longer! They beat down my people in Gilead as grain is threshed with threshing sledges of iron.

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