Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Micah 2:1
That devise — Contrive and frame mischief. Evil work — Contrive how to work it. It is in the power — Because they can; without regarding right or wrong.
That devise — Contrive and frame mischief. Evil work — Contrive how to work it. It is in the power — Because they can; without regarding right or wrong.
CHAPTER II _Here the prophet denounces a wo against the plotters of_ _wickedness, the covetous and the oppressor_, 1, 2. _God is represented as devising their ruin_, 3. _An Israelite is then intro...
The prophet had declared that evil should come down on Samaria and Jerusalem for their sins. He had pronounced them sinners against God; he now speaks of their hard unlovingness toward man, as our Ble...
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...
INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'aven._ App-44. Not the same word as in Micah 3:10. Note the incrimination in verses: Micah 2:1; Micah 2:2. See the Structure, p. 1253. WORK. plan. EVIL. wickedness. Hebrew. _ra'a...
Sin and its corresponding Punishment 1. _and work evil_ To -work," as distinguished from -devise" and to -practise" or -execute," is to prepare ways and means (see Isaiah 41:4). Obs., it is no mere a...
_PUNISHMENT FOR EVIL DOERS -- MICAH 2:1-3:_ God told these people that they were doomed for their premeditated sins. God hates all kinds of sins but He especially hates planned sins. The people of Isr...
WOE TO THEM THAT DEVISE INIQUITY— "Woe to them whose thoughts are big with mischief; so that they contrive schemes of oppression and iniquity upon their beds; which, licentious in power, they put in p...
CHAPTER VII SECOND CYCLE WOE TO THE ARROGANT MISLEADERS. Micah 2:1-3 RV. Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in...
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. WOE TO THEM THAT DEVISE INIQUITY, AND WORK EV...
2:1 work (q-8) See Note m, Psalms 5:5 . hand. (r-29) Or 'because for them their hand is God (El).' see Proverbs 3:27 ....
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...
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...
II. (1) WOE TO THEM THAT DEVISE. — The prophet proceeds to denounce the sins for which the country was to receive condign punishment at the hands of God. There is a gradation in the terms employed: th...
הֹ֧וי חֹֽשְׁבֵי ־אָ֛וֶן וּ פֹ֥עֲלֵי רָ֖ע עַל
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...
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! (a) when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. (a) As soon as they rise, they execute thei...
_Evil. Septuagint, "labours." Hebrew, "vanity, or an idol." (Haydock) --- That is called unprofitable, which is very detrimental. (Worthington) --- Morning, suddenly and with zeal. (Calmet) --- Is. He...
We have here the continuance of the same subject; the Lord's charge against Israel. It is not the nations around, but Israel, against whom the Lord pleads. Sin in God's people becomes exceeding sinful...
CONTENTS The Chapter opens with the same melancholy relation as the former. But several sweet views of Christ arise here and there as we prosecute the contents; and in the close we have a lovely mani...
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...
The Prophet does not here speak only against the Israelites, as some think, who have incorrectly confined this part of his teaching to the ten tribes; but he, on the contrary, (in discharging his offi...
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...
WOE TO THEM THAT DEVISE INIQUITY,.... Any kind of iniquity; idolatry, or worshipping of idols, for the word is used sometimes for an idol; or the sin of uncleanness, on which the thoughts too often dw...
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. Ver. 1. _Woe to them that devise iniquity_] Or,...
_Wo to them that devise iniquity_ That design and frame mischief; _and work evil upon their beds_ Contrive how to work it, and actually execute their plans when they rise in the morning. _Because it i...
DENUNCIATION OF THE PREVALENT EVILS...
Woe to them that devise iniquity, not on a sudden impulse, but with deliberate planning, AND WORK EVIL UPON THEIR BEDS! using even the night-time to hatch out further schemes of wickedness. WHEN THE M...
1-5 Woe to the people that devise evil during the night, and rise early to carry it into execution! It is bad to do mischief on a sudden thought, much worse to do it with design and forethought. It i...
MICAH CHAPTER 2 God's judgment against oppression, MICAH 2:1. A lamentation for the removal of his people, MICAH 2:4. A reproof for their injustice and delight in false prophets, MICAH 2:7. A promise...
Micah 2:1 Woe H1945 devise H2803 (H8802) iniquity H205 out H6466 (H8802) evil H7451 beds H4904 morning...
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...
Micah 2:1 This verse introduces us to a reflection which it is very important that we should sometimes thoughtfully dwell on; that thought is, the responsibility of power, or the temptations peculiar...
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...
_And they covet fields, and take them by violence _ AVARICE Greed is the spring and spirit of all oppression. Here rapacious avarice is presented in three aspects. I. Scheming in the night. When a...
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 2:1 IN THE POWER OF THEIR HAND. Attention shifts from cities and people to those who do evil because they have the authority and ability to carry out their schemes....
CRITICAL NOTES.] Judgment has been pronounced in general, now special sins are described. The conduct of the nobility is denounced. DEVISE] Heb. to form plans (Psalms 36:5). WORK] Fabricate, mature th...
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...
Acts 23:12; Acts 23:15; Deuteronomy 28:32; Esther 3:8; Esther 5:14;...