Today is the 18th day of December.

Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

I am Brian.

It's great to be here with you.

As we continue forward, a week from today is Christmas Day.

Two weeks from today is the first of January

when we will start on a brand new journey.

So we have 14 more steps to go right before

we reach the conclusion of our journey for this year and our journey has led us to another one of the minor prophets as we reached

the conclusion of the Old Testament.

Today we will read in its entirety the eighth of the minor prophets known as Habak

and we know just about nothing about Habak and his life maybe less than any other biblical writer, we have fewer clues.

There is a Hebrew tradition that speaks of Habak as being the son of the Shunomite woman who was resurrected through Elisha,

and we read about that in Second Kings, there is another tradition that's in the apocrypha

that depicts Habak ministering to David while he's in the lions then.

These are traditions and that last one especially scholars find to be

maybe legendary.

But many verses in Habak are very well known.

Maybe the most well known

is but the righteous will live by their faithfulness to God and that's often repeated

in the writings of the apostle Paul and in the book of Hebrews it's a it's like a core doctrine of the Christian faith. Righteous will live by faith.

Maybe some clues that we have about about about back up is in the poetic or lyrical

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