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Hab. 2:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

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Gen. 19:32‑35• ³²Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
³³And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
³⁴And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
³⁵And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. (Gen. 19:32‑35)

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2 Sam. 11:13• ¹³And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house. (2 Sam. 11:13)

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2 Sam. 13:26‑28• ²⁶Then said Absalom, If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon go with us. And the king said unto him, Why should he go with thee?
²⁷But Absalom pressed him, that he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him.
²⁸Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant. (2 Sam. 13:26‑28)

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Jer. 25:15• ¹⁵For thus saith the Lord God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it. (Jer. 25:15)

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Jer. 51:7• ⁷Babylon hath been a golden cup in the Lord's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad. (Jer. 51:7)

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Rev. 17:2,6• ²With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
⁶And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. (Rev. 17:2,6)

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Rev. 18:3• ³For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. (Rev. 18:3)

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Hos. 7:5• ⁵In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. (Hos. 7:5)

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Gen. 9:22• ²²And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. (Gen. 9:22)

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Ex. 32:25• ²⁵And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:) (Ex. 32:25)

• {v.15-17} Here we see the most grievous corruption added to violence. No doubt there was shameless dissolution of manners spread by the Chaldeans; but I agree with those who give the words a larger and deeper bearing than such personal excesses, followed by ignominious exposure when judgment shall come on the nations. (“Habakkuk 2” by W. Kelly)

• {v.15-17} With deceit and cunning they deceive the nations into a helpless condition, and thus prepare the way for attacking them with violence, in order to seek their own glory. (“Habakkuk” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink,—that pourest out thy flaski, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

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Or "thy poison," "thy fury."