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Verse Micah 1:2. _HEAR, ALL YE PEOPLE_] The very commencement of this
prophecy supposes _preceding_ exhortations and predictions.
_HEARKEN, O EARTH_] ארץ _arets_, here, should be translated _land,_
t...
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HEAR, ALL YE PEOPLE - Literally, “hear, ye peoples, all of them.”
Some 140, or 150 years had flowed by, since Micaiah, son of Imlah, had
closed his prophecy in these words. And now they burst out anew...
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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATION
THE FIRST PROPHETIC MESSAGE
CHAPTER 1
_ 1. The introduction (Micah 1:1) _
2. Judgment announced (Micah 1:2)
3. The destruction of Samaria (Micah 1:6)
4. The lamentation o...
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THE JUDGMENT OF ISRAEL. The nations of the earth are summoned to take
warning from the Divine judgment to be executed on Israel. Yahweh
comes forth from heaven (His holy temple; _cf._ Habakkuk 2:20; I...
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HEAR, ALL YE PEOPLE. Micah begins by taking up the concluding words of
the other Micah or Micaiah (1 Kings 22:28), and recurs to them in
Micah 3:1; Micah 3:9; Micah 6:1
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The Threat of Punishment
2. _all ye people_ Rather PEOPLES. God's judgment upon the world is
now in progress (comp. Isaiah 3:13-14; Isaiah 34:1-5), and one of the
principal acts in the great drama is...
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_THE LORD'S WORD CONCERNING SAMARIA AND JERUSALEM -- MICAH 1:1-4:_
Micah's message came by revelation of God. It was given to him when
Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah were the kings of Judah. It was a mess...
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LET THE LORD GOD BE WITNESS, &C.— "I call the Almighty to witness,
that I have forewarned you of the judgments hanging over your heads,
and which will inevitably fall upon you, unless you speedily rep...
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A CALL TO HARKEN. Micah 1:2-4
RV. Hear, ye peoples, all of you; hearken, O earth, and all that
therein is: and let the Lord Jehovah be witness against you, the Lord
from his holy temple. For, behold,...
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Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and
let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy
temple.
HEAR, ALL YE PEOPLE; HEARKEN, O EARTH, AND ALL THAT THERE...
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ALL YE PEOPLE] RV 'ye peoples, all of you.' HIS HOLY TEMPLE] i.e.
heaven, as in Habakkuk 2:20; Isaiah 63:15. Israel's ruin is to be an
object-lesson to the nations.
4. God's judgments in figures take...
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JUDGMENT ON SAMARIA AND JUDAH
Sargon destroyed Samaria, the capital of North Israel, 722 or 721.
Micah, about 720 b.c., declaring (Micah 1:6) that Samaria's fall has
been due to its sin, announces a l...
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MICAH SPEAKS A MESSAGE FROM GOD TO ALL THE NATIONS
MICAH
_LES PAINTER_
ABOUT THE BOOK OF MICAH
‘_People, the *LORD told you what goodness is. This is what the
*LORD wants you to do. Be fair to ot...
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Micah gives an order to all the people in Samaria and Jerusalem. The
people in *Israel had a special relationship with God because they had
made a *covenant with him. But they had not followed the rul...
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HEAR, ALL YE PEOPLE. — The three-fold repetition of the appeal,
“Hear ye,” seems to mark three divisions in the book: 1. “Hear,
all ye people” (Micah 1:2); 2. “Hear, I pray you, O heads of
Jacob” (Mic...
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שִׁמְעוּ֙ עַמִּ֣ים כֻּלָּ֔ם
הַקְשִׁ֖יבִי אֶ֣רֶץ וּ...
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MICAH THE MORASTHITE
Micah 1:1
SOME time in the reign of Hezekiah, when the kingdom of Judah was
still inviolate, but shivering to the shock of the fall of Samaria,
and probably while Sargon the dest...
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GOD'S WITNESS AGAINST HIS CHOSEN
Micah 1:1-16
Micah was contemporary with Isaiah and Hosea. Jeremiah quotes from
him. Compare Micah 3:12 and Jeremiah 26:18.
In Micah 1:1-4 the prophet _summons the n...
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The first message of Micah consists of a summons, a proclamation of
Jehovah, and a prophetic message based on the proclamation. This
division ends with an account of the intenuption of the false
proph...
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Hear, (b) all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is:
and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy
temple.
(b) Because of the malice and obstinacy of the people,...
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_Witness. Deuteronomy xxxii., Isaias i., and vi.. The prophet
discharges his duty, and will not be blameable, if people die in their
sins, Jeremias iii. 18. (Worthington) --- This sublime address shew...
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There is a great sameness between the writings of Isaiah and Micah;
their vision opens much alike, only Micah's vision is concerning
Samaria and Jerusalem; and Isaiah's of Judah and Jerusalem. Samaria...
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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 here rises into an elevated style, being not content with
a simple and calm manner of speaking. We hence may learn, that having
previously tried the disposition of the people, he knew the...
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The Lord speaks in this book from His temple, and addresses all the
peoples-the whole earth. That is to say, He takes His place upon His
earthly throne to judge the whole earth, in testimony against a...
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HEAR, ALL YE PEOPLE,.... Or, "the people, all of them" m; not all the
nations of the world, but the nations of Israel, so called from their
several tribes; though some n think the rest of the inhabita...
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Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and
let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy
temple.
Ver. 2. _Hear, all ye people_] He beginneth as Isaiah, in a...
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_Hear, all ye people_ All ye of Israel and Judah. _Hearken, O earth_
Or, O land, [of Israel:] _and all that therein is_ That is, all its
inhabitants. _Let the Lord be witness against you_ “I call him...
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Hear, all ye people, Cf 1 Kings 22:28; HEARKEN, O EARTH, AND ALL THAT
THEREIN IS, Cf Isaiah 1:2; AND LET THE LORD GOD BE WITNESS AGAINST
YOU, in testifying to their transgressions, THE LORD FROM HIS H...
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EPHRAIM'S DESTRUCTION THREATENED...
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HEAR ALL YE PEOPLE:
_ Heb._ hear ye people all of them
ALL THAT THEREIN IS:
_ Heb._ the fullness thereof...
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1-7 The earth is called upon, with all that are therein, to hear the
prophet. God's holy temple will not protect false professors. Neither
men of high degree, as the mountains, nor men of low degree,...
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HEAR: the prophet here by proclamation requires earnest attention to
his word. So Moses, DEUTERONOMY 4:26, DEUTERONOMY 30:19 32:1; so the
psalmist, PSALMS 50:1,4; and so Isaiah,...
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Micah 1:2 Hear H8085 (H8798) peoples H5971 Listen H7181 (H8685) earth
H776 in H4393 Lord H136 GOD...
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YHWH DECLARES HIS VERDICT ON SAMARIA AND JERUSALEM (MICAH 1:1).
The chapter opens with a declaration of YHWH's sovereign power as
Creator, and of His interest in the affairs of Judah and Israel, whic...
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CONTENTS: Jehovah's case against Israel. Impending judgment.
CHARACTERS: God, Micah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah.
CONCLUSION: There comes a time when men who have persisted in sin must
face ruin without...
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Micah 1:1. _Micah the Morasthite,_ alluding to a village in the tribe
of Judah, near the city of Eleuthera, which distinguishes him from the
prophet Micaiah, who foretold the defeat of Ahab. 1 Kings 2...
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_The Word of the Lord that came to Micah the Morasthite _
DIVINE REVELATION
I. It is the word of the lord. What is a word?
1. A mind manifesting power. In his word a true man manifests himself,
his...
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CRITICAL NOTES.
MICAH 1:2. HEAR] Lit. Hear, ye peoples all of them “Some 140 or 150
years had flowed by since Micaiah, son of Imlah, had closed his
prophecy in these words. Now they burst out anew. Fr...
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EXPOSITION
VERSE 1:1-2:13
Part I. THREATENINGS AND JUDGMENTS ON ISRAEL AND JUDAH, WITH
PREDICTION OF EVENTUAL DELIVERANCE.
MICAH 1:1
The...
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Shall we turn now to the book of Micah.
As is the very typical opening of most of the books of the prophets,
The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of
Jotham, Ahaz, and He...
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Deuteronomy 32:1; Habakkuk 2:20; Isaiah 1:2; Jeremiah 22:29; J
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O earth — This seems to be an appeal to the senseless creatures, or
a summons to bring them in evidences for God against those kingdoms.
Therein — Animate or inanimate creatures, all that are on the e...