Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Micah 2:6
They shall not prophesy — So God doth in his displeasure grant their desire. Take shame — That will not take shame to themselves.
They shall not prophesy — So God doth in his displeasure grant their desire. Take shame — That will not take shame to themselves.
Verse Micah 2:6. _PROPHESY YE NOT_] Do not predict any more evils-we have as many as we can bear. We are utterly ruined-shame and confusion cover our faces. The original is singular, and expressive o...
PROPHESY YE NOT, SAY THEY TO THEM THAT PROPHESY; THEY SHALL NOT PROPHESY TO THEM, THAT THEY SHALL NOT TAKE SHAME - The words are very emphatic in Hebrew, from their briefness, “Prophesy not; they shal...
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...
PROPHESY. Do not sputter. SAY THEY TO THEM THAT PROPHESY. so they sputter. THEY SHALL NOT PROPHESY. Not the usual word for prophesy, but Hebrew. _nataph._ THEY: i.e. these false prophets. THEM. as...
_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...
PROPHESY YE NOT, &C.— _Prophesy ye not:—Yet they will prophesy. At least prophesy not these things: The boundaries of the kingdom shall not be removed,_ Micah 2:7. _For thus saith the house of Jacob,...
THE PROPHET ACCUSED AS AN ENEMY. Micah 2:6-7(a) RV. Prophesy ye not, thus they prophesy. They shall not prophesy to these: reproaches shall not depart. Shall it be said, O house of Jacob, Is the Spiri...
Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame. PROPHESY YE NOT, SAY THEY - namely, the Israelites say to the true prophets, when...
2:6 Prophesy (v-1) Lit. 'Drop,' in this and ver. 11, as Amos 7:16 . these, (w-12) i.e. If the true prophets do not prophesy to the unjust rich men (see vers. 1,2). others translate 'They shall not pro...
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...
God sent his *prophets to warn the people about their *sins. But these rich people did not want to listen to God’s message. Instead, they appointed their own *prophets (called the ‘false *prophets’) t...
PROPHESY YE NOT. — The construction of this verse is very confused, but the intention of it is fairly clear. It contains the address of the oppressors to the true prophets, and their reply. The oppres...
אַל ־תַּטִּ֖פוּ יַטִּיפ֑וּן לֹֽא ־יַטִּ֣פוּ לָ...
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...
(d) Prophesy ye not, [say they to them that] prophesy: (e) they shall not prophesy to them, [that] they shall not take shame. (d) Thus the people warn the prophets that they speak to them no more, fo...
Drop. That is, the prophecy shall not come upon these. Such were the sentiments of the people that were unwilling to believe the threats of the prophets. (Challoner) --- The princes order the prophets...
When we consider the Lord's dealings with Israel, we cannot sufficiently lament their depravity. Other nations of the earth, which knew not the Lord, we behold with a different aspect to that of the s...
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...
Here the conciseness of the expressions has made interpreters to differ in their views. Some read thus, _Distill ye not, _— _they will distill; _that is, the Jews speak against the prophets, and with...
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...
PROPHESY YE NOT, [SAY THEY TO THEM THAT] PROPHESY,.... Or "drop not" h; such terrible words, such menacing things; let them not flow from your lips with such profusion and abundance; cease from speaki...
Prophesy ye not, [say they to them that] prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, [that] they shall not take shame. Ver. 6. _Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy_] Prodigious impudence t...
_In that day shall one take up a parable_ Shall use a figurative speech, _against you_ A parable signifies a speech out of the ordinary way, as the Greek word παροιμια imports, and illustrated with me...
Prophesy not, say they to them that prophesy, literally, "Drop not," or, "drivel not, they drivel," almost like the American slang, "Dry up! they drivel," in speaking to the true prophets in a silly f...
DENUNCIATION OF THE PREVALENT EVILS...
PROPHESY YE NOT: Or, prophesy not, as they prophesy PROPHESY: _ Heb._ drop, etc....
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...
PROPHESY YE NOT; it is manifest that our version here intends this as an interdict, or prohibition, laid upon the true prophets, whose hearers were so far from amending and turning unto God in complia...
Micah 2:6 prattle H5197 (H8686) prophesy H5197 (H8686) prophesy H5197 (H8686) insult H5253 (H8799) insult...
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...
CRITICAL NOTES.] MICAH 2:6. PROPHESY] Lit. to drip, to cause words to flow, prophesying (Amos 7:16). “The people, the false prophets, the politicians, forbade God and Micah to prophesy. PROPHESY NOT]...
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...
1 Thessalonians 2:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:16; Acts 4:17; Acts 5:28;...