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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Micah 2:13

Open. Hebrew, "break down." (Haydock) --- Divide. Hebrew, "make a breach." They shall return boldly, and in triumph. (Calmet)

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See also Micah 2:13 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Micah 2:13. _THE BREAKER IS COME UP_] He who is to give them _deliverance_, and lead them out on the way of their return. He who takes down the _hurdles_, or makes _a gap_ in the _wall_ or _hed...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE BREAKER IS COME UP - (gone up) before them; they have broken up (Broken through) and have passed the gate, and have gone forth The image is not of conquest, but of deliverance. They “break through...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The guilt and punishment of Israel (Micah 2:1) _ 2. The future restoration (Micah 2:12) Micah 2:1. In the first two verses the special sins of Israel are mentioned, the same as in Amo...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    MICAH 2:12 F. A PROMISE OF RESTORATION. This is a later insertion in Micah's prophecy, analogous to Micah 4, and presupposing the Jewish exile and dispersion. Yahweh will shepherd (Psalms 23:1) the re...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE BREAKER. One making. breach. The Assyrian. Hebrew. _paratz,_ as in Exodus 19:22; Exodus 19:24; 2 Samuel 5:20. 1Ch 14:11. 1 Chronic

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _A PROMISE OF HOPE -- MICAH 2:12-13:_ The subject quickly changed as the Lord predicted the restoration of the remnant of Israel to their homeland. He promised, "I will gather them, just as a shepherd...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE BREAKER IS COME UP, &C.— _He who shall open the way shall ascend before them: They shall come by troops, and pass through the gates. Their king before them shall lead the band: The Lord shall be a...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    JUDGEMENTS TEMPERED BY PROMISES. Micah 2:12-13 RV. I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as a flock...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them. THE BREAK...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SINS THAT BRING RUIN Micah 2:3, as dealing with the same subject, should be read together. Micah now enumerates the sins which must bring punishment on Judah. He inveighs bitterly against the rap...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The *Assyrians will rule God’s people. God’s people will be in a foreign country. They will need a strong leader to rescue them. Only the *LORD can do that. Their escape happens in three parts: 1) Th...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    MICAH SPEAKS A MESSAGE FROM GOD TO ALL THE NATIONS MICAH _LES PAINTER_ CHAPTER 2 2:1-11 EVIL LEADERS AND FALSE *PROPHETS WILL SUFFER v1 Trouble will come to people that plot evil things. Those...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I WILL SURELY ASSEMBLE... — With a characteristic abruptness Micah turns from the height of sin and punishment to the height of the deliverance — from Ebal to Gerizim. Israel and the remnant shall be...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE BREAKER. — “This Breaker is, by the confession of the Jews, the title of the Messias.... The same appeareth by that saying of Moses Haddershan in Bereshith Rabba: The plantation from above is Mess...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    עָלָ֤ה הַ פֹּרֵץ֙ לִ פְנֵיהֶ֔ם פָּֽרְצוּ֙ וַֽ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE PROPHET OF THE POOR Micah 2:1; Micah 3:1 WE have proved Micah's love for his countryside in the effusion of his heart upon her villages with a grief for their danger greater than his grief for Je...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE HARVEST OF GREED AND INJUSTICE Micah 2:1-13 Micah 1:1-16 dealt with sins against the _first_ table of the law; this deals with those against the _second_. Evil must sooner or later befall those w...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Following this the prophet states the cause of the imminent judgment. The sin consists in devising evil at night and practicing it in the morning, and the abuse of authority. Covetousness, expressing...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    The (p) breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD (q) on the head of them. (p)...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here is a verse concerning the Lord Jesus, which it would take the whole of life to go over every part and explain; and after all, numberless beauties pointing to the Lord Jesus in it would be left un...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. The prophecy of Micah, like all the rest, has its own distinctive properties, though falling into the general current of testimony to Israel, and so far with...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _CHRIST THE BREAKER_ ‘The breaker is come up before them.’ Micah 2:13 I make no apology for taking the words as having their only real accomplishment in the office and working of Jesus Christ. He i...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    It follows, _Ascend shall a breaker before them; _that is, they shall be led in confusion; and the gate shall also be broken, that they may go forth together; for the passage would not be large enough...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In chapter 2 the prophet points out the moral causes of the judgment of God-violence and shameless oppression. They formed plans of violence to gratify their covetousness, and Jehovah formed also plan...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THE BREAKER UP IS COME UP BEFORE THEM,.... Not the enemy, either the Assyrian or Chaldean army, or any part thereof, going up before the rest, breaking down the walls of the city, either of Samaria or...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them. Ver. 13. _T...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee_, &c. Many commentators, connecting these verses with the preceding, interpret them as a prediction of the captivity of Israel and Judah. By _assembling a...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The breaker is come up before them, rather, "There will go up before them He that breaketh through," their powerful Champion; THEY HAVE BROKEN UP, rather, "they break up,". AND HAVE PASSED THROUGH THE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Expulsion of the Leaders and Restoration Of The Lord's People...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12,13 These verses may refer to the captivity of Israel and Judah. But the passage is also a prophecy of the conversion of the Jews to Christ. The Lord would not only bring them from captivity, and m...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    In the opinion of those who account the 12th verse to be part of the flattering discourse of false prophets, this verse is the prophet Micah's reply to those false teachers; so far is it from truth th...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Micah 2:13 open H6555 (H8802) up H5927 (H8804) before H6440 out H6555 (H8804) through H5674 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH WILL GATHER THE REMNANT OF ISRAEL LIKE A SHEPHERD GATHERS HIS SHEEP AND LEADS THEM HOME (MICAH 2:12). As regularly happens on the prophets Micah now follows the bad news with good news. This was...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Micah 2:13 The title of the "Breaker" was most appropriately given to the Lord Jesus, (i) because it was through His agency alone that the power of sin was broken; (ii) because, by His death, the dist...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jehovah's case against Israel, continued. Future deliverance of a remnant. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit. CONCLUSION: Sinners cannot expect to rest in a land which they have polluted by the...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Micah 2:1. _Woe to them that devise iniquity they covet fields, and take them by violence._ The jubilee was the happiest law that ever favoured a nation; but the rabbins confess that before the captiv...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it _ CHRIST, AS THE BREAKER, OPENING ALL PASSES TO GLORY THAT WERE IMPASSABLE It is ag...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee _ GOSPEL WORK The prophet here passes from threats to promises. The future was to embrace two things. 1. A grand gathering. Jacob and the remnant of I...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 2:12 The first main section ends with the Shepherd of Israel gathering his sheep into the protective fold and leading them out as their triumphant King. ⇐

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 2:13 OPENS THE BREACH. The picture shifts to a king leading his army out (THEY BREAK THROUGH) from an enclosed city. king... before them... LORD

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] MICAH 2:11. SPIRIT] Lit. walk in the wind, sig. what is vain or worthless (Isaiah 26:18; Isaiah 41:29); some, “the man of spirit, _i.e._ claiming inspiration.” PROPHESY] Soothe you in...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION MICAH 2:1 § 6. _The prophet justifies his threat by recounting the sins of which the grandees and guilty._ MICAH 2:1 The prophet, himself one of the people, first inveighs against the si...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now God is giving here His continued indictment against Israel and He said, Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it ha...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 15:21; Daniel 2:34; Daniel 2:35; Daniel 2:44; E

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The breaker — To break down all opposition. The gate — The door of escape out of their captivity. No cities so strong, which the Assyrians shall not take and possess, and enter in through the gates. T...

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