For the salvation of thy people even for salvation with Thine anointed - The English Version is doubtless right עד, inclusive, embracing the part mentioned as the boundary; not exclusive, so as to leave the walls still rising up as ruins
So Amos said, , "The Lord said, Smite the capital, and the lintel threshold strike, and wound them in the head, all of them;" and with a different image This thought in connects the conclusion of the description of the judicial coming of God with what precedes

Leviticus 18:13 Hebrew Text Analysis

As in the following clause the metaphor of a house is plainly employed, "the head" must be taken for the gable or topmost ridge.

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Habakkuk 3:13 Commentaries: You went forth for the salvation of Your people, For the salvation of Your anointed. You struck the head of the house of the evil To lay him open from thigh to neck. Selah.
In the promises made to David are represented as being inherited by the people
Leviticus 18:13 Hebrew Text Analysis
The enemies are compared to highway murderers, who lurk in dark corners for the defenceless traveller, and look forward with rejoicing for the moment when they may be able to murder him
ערוץ 13 רשת לצפייה ישירה
The prophet does not express the latter indeed, but it is implied in what he says
The bruising of Satan, the head or prince of this evil world, is the deliverance of the world Maurer translates to suit the parallelism, "for salvation to Thine anointed," namely, Israel's king in the abstract, answering to the "people" in the former clause compare Ps 28:8; La 4:20
Thou goest out to the rescue of Thy people, to the rescue of Thine anointed one; Thou dashest in pieces the head from the house of the wicked one, laying bare the foundation even to the neck Literally, it runs, Thou crushest the head of the house of the wicked comp

ערוץ 13 רשת לצפייה ישירה

God reveals himself for the salvation of his people in union with the work especially of his anointed Son, Christ.

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Leviticus 18:13 Hebrew Text Analysis
Habakkuk 3:13 Commentaries: You went forth for the salvation of Your people, For the salvation of Your anointed. You struck the head of the house of the evil To lay him open from thigh to neck. Selah.
All the wonders done for Israel of old, were nothing to that which was done when the Son of God suffered on the cross for the sins of his people
Leviticus 18:13 Hebrew Text Analysis
Thou wentest forth for the salvation of that people, even for salvation with thine anointed,
From above, his head was crushed in pieces; from below, the house was razed from its very foundations God is said to "go forth" when he intervenes for the aid of his people, as ; ;
Thou wentest forth - Even a Jew says of this place, Kimchi: "The past is here used for the future; and this is frequent in the language of prophecy; for prophecy, although it be future, yet since it is, as it were, firmly fixed, they use the past concerning it Thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked; thou dashest in pieces the head

Leviticus 18:13 Hebrew Text Analysis

Some commentators see here an allusion to the primeval sentence : others to the destruction of the Egyptians' firstborn; others to the incident of Jael and Sisera.

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Thou didst discomfit all the petty kings of the several clans carrying on the war against Joshua
Habakkuk 3:13 Hebrew Text Analysis
The meaning of the words is this: with the spear of the king God pierces the heads of his warlike troops; and the thought expressed is, that the hostile troops will slay one another in consequence of the confusion, as was the case in the wars described in and , and as, according to prophecy, the last hostile power of the world is to meet with its ruin when it shall attack the kingdom of God ;
Habakkuk 3:13 Commentaries: You went forth for the salvation of Your people, For the salvation of Your anointed. You struck the head of the house of the evil To lay him open from thigh to neck. Selah.
God, from the first, helped His people through single persons - Moses, Joshua, each of the Judges - accustoming them to receive deliverance by one, and to gather together all their hopes in One