IT is a very foolish fancy of some of the Jewish rabbin that this prophet was the son of the Shunamite woman that was at first miraculously given, and afterwards raised to life, by Elisha (2 Kings iv.), as they say also that the prophet Jonah was the son of the widow of Zarephath, which Elijah raised to life. It is a more probable conjecture of their modern chronologers that he lived and prophesied in the reign of king Manasseh, when wickedness abounded, and destruction was hastening on, destruction by the Chaldeans, whom this prophet mentions as the instruments of God's judgments: and Manasseh was himself carried to Babylon, as an earnest of what should come afterwards. In the apocryphal story of Bel and the Dragon mention is made of Habakkuk the prophet in the land of Judah, who was carried thence by an angel to Babylon, to feed Daniel in the den: those who give credit to that story take pains to reconcile our prophet's living before the captivity, and foretelling it, with that. Huetius thinks that that was another of the same name, a prophet, this of the tribe of Simeon, that of Levi: others that he lived so long as to the end of that captivity, though he prophesied of it before it came. And some have imagined that Habakkuk's feeding Daniel in the den is to be understood mystically, that Daniel then lived by faith, as Habakkuk had said the just should do: he was fed by that word, Hab. ii. 4. The prophecy of this book is a mixture of the prophet's addresses to God in the people's name and to the people in God's name: for it is the office of the prophet to carry messages both ways. We have in it a lively representation of the intercourse and communion between a gracious God and a gracious soul. The whole refers particularly to the invasion of the land of Judah by the Chaldeans, which brought spoil upon the people of God, a just punishment of the spoil they had been guilty of among themselves: but it is of general use, especially to help us through that great temptation with which good men have in all ages been exercised, arising from the power and prosperity of the wicked and the sufferings of the righteous by it.

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1: And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer it of the herd;whether it be a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before theLORD.

2: And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of thetabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.

3: And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,

4: And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.

5: And Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt sacrifice, which is upon the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto theLORD.

6: And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the LORD be of the flock; maleor female, he shall offer it without blemish.

7: If he offer a lamb for his offering, then shall he offer it before the LORD.

8: And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof round about upon the altar.

9: And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat thereof, and the whole rump, itshall he take off hard by the backbone; and the fat that covereth the inwards,and all the fat that is upon the inwards,

10: And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, itshall he take away.

11: And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire unto the LORD.

12: And if his offering be a goat, then he shall offer it before the LORD.

13: And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the tabernacle of thecongregation: and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about.

14: And he shall offer thereof his offering, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,

15: And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caulabove the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.

16: And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savor: all the fat is the LORD's.

17: It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
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