Even of late, in fact, yesterday, My people is risen up as an enemy, taking an open stand against Jehovah. And this hostility is openly shown. Ye pull off the robe with the garment, stripping off the mantle or upper garment, from them that pass by securely, considering themselves safe from robbery and violence, as men averse from war, that is, from peaceable people, such as seek no quarrel with any one.
Verse 8. _MY PEOPLE IS RISEN UP AS AN ENEMY_] Ye are not only opposed to me, but ye are enemies to each other. Ye rob and spoil each other. Ye plunder the peaceable passenger; depriving him both of hi...
EVEN OF LATE - (Literally, yesterday.) Jerome: “He imputeth not past sins, but those recent and, as it were, of yesterday.” “My people is risen up vehemently”. God upbraideth them tenderly by the titl...
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...
SOCIAL INJUSTICE AND ITS PENALTY. The prophet denounces those for whom might is right (Psalms 36:4; and work evil seems a thoughtless scribal addition), who acquire property by illegal or inequitable...
EVEN OF LATE. Only yesterday, or recently: this highway robbery was. new and recent evil....
_A REBUKE FOR SIN -- MICAH 2:6-11:_ The people did not like to hear God's prophet giving such unpleasant predictions. They said to the man of God, "Do not preach, say the prophesying false prophets; o...
YE PULL OFF THE ROBE, &C.— _Having taken away the garment, you plunder the robe also. They who travel securely are carried away as captives in war._ Houbigant....
THE PROPHET ANSWERS HIS CRITICS. Micah 2:7(b)-11 RV. Do not _my_ words do good to him that walketh uprightly? But of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye strip the robe from off the garment from...
Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war. EVEN OF LATE - literally yesterday: 'long ago.' So "of...
2:8 with (a-17) Lit. 'from off.' averse (b-28) Or 'as coming back.'...
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...
EVEN] RV 'but.' WITH THE GARMENT] RV 'from off the garment.' The ROBE is a mantle, the GARMENT what is usually called the upper garment. MEN AVERSE FROM WAR] quiet, peaceful people. Micah seems to ref...
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...
The rulers are thieves. They are as cruel as enemies. God accuses the rulers. Micah mentions 3 things of which the rulers are guilty: • They steal the fine clothing from people’s backs. Fine clothing...
YE PULL OFF THE ROBE. — Micah dwells upon the continued rapacity of the people. They robbed the quiet inoffensive traveller of both outer and inner garment; they took away both “cloke” and “coat.” (Co...
וְ אֶתְמ֗וּל עַמִּי֙ לְ אֹויֵ֣ב יְקֹומֵ֔ם מִ
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...
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...
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...
Even (h) of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the (i) robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war. (h) That is, in past times. (i) The poor can hav...
_Away. You have often stripped people of their necessary garments; and have treated such as were innocently passing on the way, as if they were at war with you. (Challoner) --- He alludes to Israel at...
Do not forget, Reader, nor overlook the sweet feature of grace here appearing. Though unworthy, degenerate, and fallen, still Jacob is reminded of his name, and called upon to recollect, that Him with...
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...
As the words of the Prophet are concise, they contain some obscurity. Hence interpreters differ. First, as to the word אתמיל, _atmul, _some think it to be one word, others divide it into את, _at _and...
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...
EVEN OF LATE MY PEOPLE IS RISEN UP AS AN ENEMY,.... Or "yesterday" o; meaning a very little while before this prophecy, the people of Israel, those of the ten tribes, who were the people of God by pro...
Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war. Ver. 8. _Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy_]...
_Of late my people is risen up as an enemy_ AGAINST ME is to be here understood, namely, against God; for this is still spoken in the person of God. The sense is more evident in the Hebrew than in our...
EVEN OF LATE: _ Heb._ yesterday WITH THE GARMENT: _ Heb._ over against a garment...
6-11 Since they say, "Prophesy not," God will take them at their word, and their sin shall be their punishment. Let the physician no longer attend the patient that will not be healed. Those are enemi...
This verse to me seems to be designed as a proof of the perverseness and iniquity of this people, and consequently a justifying of God, and his prophet, threatening severity against them: they flatter...
Micah 2:8 Lately H865 people H5971 up H6965 (H8787) enemy H341 off H6584 (H8686) robe H145 with...
THE SINS WHICH HAVE BROUGHT JUDAH'S CALAMITY ON IT (MICAH 2:1). These prophecies would have been spoken well before the scenes previously depicted, which from the point of view of this chapter are st...
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...
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...
_My people is risen up as an enemy _ SIN AN ANTAGONIST This chapter refers to the character and doings of Israel during the last nine years of Ahaz. A very dark period in Israelitish history was thi...
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 2:8 These acts are similar to the abuses detailed in vv. Micah 2:1. MY PEOPLE... AN ENEMY. The accusation of hostility is supported by three examples of enemy-
CRITICAL NOTES.] MICAH 2:8. LATE] Lit. yesterday = not long since; or again, recently, the people stood up, took an hostile attitude. PULL OFF] Not content with the outer garment, they rob passers-by...
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...
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...
2 Chronicles 28:5; 2 Chronicles 28:8; 2 Samuel 20:19; Isaiah 9:21;...
Is risen up — They have risen up, Israel against Judah, and Judah against Israel, and of late the tribes have conspired against one another; subjects against their kings, and great ones against the me...