³ tn Or “march.”

¹ tn Or “marches forth.”

² tn Heb “march out.”

³ tn Or “marches.” See note 1.

² sn That is, March-April.

¹ sn This would be March 3, 585 b.c.

⁸ tn Or “pass through you” (NASB); or “march against you”; NCV “attack you.”

¹ tn March 17, 585 b.c. The LXX adds “first month.”

² sn The twenty-fifth day would be March 20, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

² sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

³ sn The barley harvest began in late March. See O. Borowski, Agriculture in Iron Age Israel, 91.

¹ sn Rain…three months before the harvest refers to the rains of late March-early April.

² tn The Hebrew text has simply “in holiness.” The words “who marches along” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁴ sn The precise location of Mount Paran is unknown, but like Teman it was located to the southeast of Israel. Habakkuk saw God marching from the direction of Sinai.

² sn This would have been January 15, 588 b.c. The reckoning is based on the calendar that begins the year in the spring (Nisan = March/April).

² sn This would have been Jan 15, 588 b.c. The reckoning is based on the calendar that begins the year in the spring (Nisan = March/April).

³ sn Barley was harvested from late March through late April, wheat from late April to late May (O. Borowski, Agriculture in Ancient Israel, 88, 91).

¹ sn The month Abib, later called Nisan (Neh 2:1; Esth 3:7), corresponds to March-April in the modern calendar.

² sn The crops planted late (consisting of vegetables) were planted in late January-early March and sprouted in conjunction with the spring rains of March-April. For a discussion of the ancient Israelite agricultural calendar, see O. Borowski, Agriculture in Iron Age Israel, 31-44.

² sn When you march through the wastelands. Some interpreters think that v. 7 alludes to Israel’s exodus from Egypt and its subsequent travels in the wilderness. Another option is that v. 7, like v. 8, echoes Judg 5:4, which describes how the God of Sinai marched across the plains of Edom to do battle with Sisera and his Canaanite army.