Habakkuk 2:2

"And Jehovah answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, that he may run that readeth it."

Habakkuk was instructed to "write" the vision in order to assure its availability for all future generations, because the message was intended to bless all succeeding generations of mankind.

"That he may run that readeth it ..." is usually taken to mean that even the casual reader may understand it, as in the sense of Kebble's hymn, "There is a book, who runs may read"; but, according to Deane, "The Hebrew rather means that everyone who reads it may read fluently and easily."[3] This, it seems to us, is a distinction without a difference; and so we take it in the traditional sense that even the occasional or casual reader can easily get the message.

The tablets mentioned here were the usual plates upon which writing was done. "These were usually of clay in Babylonia, and in some instances were of wood or ivory."[4]