For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth, to seize dwellings not their own. Habakkuk 1:6 God told Habakkuk something unbelievable was going to happen. He was going to answer the prophet’s petitions by dealing with the evils in Israel. They were going to be conquered by foreign invaders: the Chaldeans! Introducing the Chaldeans Who were the Chaldeans (Hebrew Chasdim; also translated “Babylonians” from their capital city of Babylon)? They are first mentioned outside the Bible in Assyrian sources around 878 BC living by the Persian Gulf […]