Micah 2 - Introduction

This and the next chapter should be read in connexion. They form a single prophecy, the subject of which is the cause of the coming judgment, viz. the sins of the great men and the rulers. The sins and their punishment are over and over again described with increasing intensity. First of all in Micah 2:1-5. Then in Micah 2:6 the offenders inveigh against this troublesome preaching, and the prophet rejoins in Micah 2:7. In Micah 2:8 a second description of the offences of the grandees is given, followed, in Micah 2:11, by a digression on the caricature of prophecy patronized by them. The last two verses of the chapter interrupt the sequence of thought (see on chap. 3).