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Verse Micah 2:7. _IS THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD STRAITENED?_] This is the
complaint of the Israelites, and a part of the lamentation. Doth it
not speak by other persons as well as by Micah? Doth it commu...
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O THOU THAT ART NAMED THE HOUSE OF JACOB - As Isaiah says, “Hear ye
this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel - which
make mention of the God of Israel, not in truth, nor in right...
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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...
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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...
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JACOB. See notes on Genesis 32:28; Genesis 43:6; Genesis 45:26;
Genesis 45:28.
IS THE SPIRIT, &C. ? Reference to Pentateuch ...
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_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...
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DISCOURSE: 1204
BENEFITS ARISING FROM THE WORD OF GOD
Micah 2:7. _Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?_
GREAT and bitter prejudices are often entertained against the word of
God; as...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD
straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that
walketh uprightly?
O THOU THAT ART NAMED THE HOUSE OF JACO...
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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...
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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...
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In Micah’s book, ‘Jacob’ refers to all *Israel. (Look at Micah
3:1.) The people were probably thinking about a verse from Exodus.
‘The *LORD is kind and gentle. He does not get angry quickly. He
does...
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IS THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD STRAITENED? — In this verse the prophet
expostulates with the people who are the people of the Lord, the house
of Jacob, in name only. The Spirit of the Lord, who changeth no...
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הֶ אָמ֣וּר בֵּֽית ־יַעֲקֹ֗ב הֲ קָצַר֙
ר֣וּחַ
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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...
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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...
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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...
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O [thou that art] named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD
straitened? (f) [are] these his doings? do not my words do good to him
(g) that walketh uprightly?
(f) Are these your works accor...
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_Straitened. Is he inclined to danger? The prophet replies, if God
punishes, it is because the people will not repent. (Calmet) --- His
mercy is extended to penitents, as well as to the just. (Worthin...
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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...
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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...
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The Prophet now reproves the Israelites with greater severity, because
they attempted to impose a law on God and on his prophets and would
not endure the free course of instruction. He told us in the...
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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...
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O [THOU THAT ART] NAMED THE HOUSE OF JACOB,.... Called after that
great and good man, and reckoned the people of God, and have the
character of being religious persons; but, alas! have but a name, and...
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O [thou that art] named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD
straitened? [are] these his doings? do not my words do good to him
that walketh uprightly?
Ver. 7. _O thou that art named the hou...
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_O thou that art named The house of Jacob_ But dost not act suitably
to the piety of thy father Jacob, and therefore, though thou art in
name, yet not in truth the genuine seed of Jacob. _Is the Spiri...
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Expulsion of the Leaders and Restoration Of The Lord's People...
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O thou that art named the house of Jacob, the people who still
considered themselves the covenant nation, IS THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD
STRAITENED, impatient? Did He not exercise patience and
long-sufferi...
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STRAIGHTENED:
Or, shortened
UPRIGHTLY?:
_ Heb._ upright...
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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...
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NAMED; you are in name, not in truth, you call yourselves, and would
be called by others, the seed and posterity of Jacob. THE HOUSE OF
JACOB; you glory in Jacob, whom God blessed, guided, and preserv...
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Micah 2:7 named H559 (H8803) house H1004 Jacob H3290 Spirit H7307 LORD
H3068 restricted H7114 (H8804) doings...
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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...
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Micah 2:7
I. Consider the promise of the Pentecost. There was (i) the promise of
a Divine Spirit by symbols which express some, at all events, of the
characteristics and wonderfulness of His work. The...
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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...
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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...
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_O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the Spirit of the Lord
straitened?_
THE CRIMINALITY AND FOLLY OF LIMITING THE HOLY SPIRIT
1. Amongst the numerous instances in which Christians conduct...
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MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 2:7 The people thought that a God of grace could
never bring the disaster mentioned in vv. Micah 2:3....
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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]...
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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...
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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...
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2 Corinthians 6:12; 2 Timothy 3:5; Hosea 14:9; Isaiah 48:1; Isaiah
48:2
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That art named — You are in name, not in truth, the seed of Jacob.
Straitened — The power, wisdom, and kindness of God is not less now
than formerly. Are these — Are these severe proceedings the doing...