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Verse Micah 3:12. _THEREFORE SHALL ZION - BE PLOUGHED_ AS _A FIELD_]
It shall undergo a variety of reverses and sackages, till at last
_there_ _shall not be one stone left on the top of another, that...
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THEREFORE SHALL ZION FOR YOUR SAKE - for your sake shall Zion
BE PLOWED AS A FIELD - They thought to be its builders; they were its
destroyers. They imagined to advance or secure its temporal prosperi...
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THE SECOND PROPHETIC MESSAGE
CHAPTER 3
_ 1. Address to the godless princes and judges (Micah 3:1) _
2. Address to the false prophets (Micah 3:5)
3. The verdict of judgment (Micah 3:9)...
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FALSE CONFIDENCE ISSUING IN THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM. Micah again
addresses the rulers, who have founded the prosperity of the capital
on violence and injustice (Micah 3:9 f.;_ cf._ Jeremiah 22:13...
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ZION. See App-68.
BE PLOWED AS. FIELD. This is true of the site on Ophel, but not true
of the traditional site south-west of Jerusalem. See App-68. Compare
Micah 1:6; Jeremiah 26:18.
JERUSALEM. The...
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_FRIGHTFUL JUDGMENT AGAINST JERUSALEM -- MICAH 3:12:_ The evils of
these people had brought things to such a point that both Jerusalem
and the Temple would be destroyed. "Therefore shall Zion for your...
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THEREFORE SHALL ZION—BE PLOWED AS A FIELD— There is nothing that
hinders us from referring this prophesy to the first destruction of
Jerusalem; for, though the foundations of the walls were left, yet...
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CONCLUSION OF THE DENUNCIATIONS. Micah 3:9-12
RV. Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers
of the house of Israel, that abhor justice, and pervert all equity.
They build up Zi...
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Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and
Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the
high places of the forest.
THEREFORE SHALL ZION FOR YOUR SAKE BE PLOW...
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3:12 forest. (g-29) See Jeremiah 26:18 ....
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WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES
Micah returns to his indictment against the people's leaders. Their
power was given for the sake of justice, and they have abused it for
extortion (Micah 3:1). Their time sha...
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MICAH SPEAKS A MESSAGE FROM GOD TO ALL THE NATIONS
MICAH
_LES PAINTER_
CHAPTER 3
SECTION 2
3:1-5:15 MICAH ACCUSES FALSE LEADERS. HE PROMISES THAT A GOOD, FAIR
KING WILL COME
3:1-12 THE FALSE LEA...
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God’s punishment will therefore be as serious as the crime.
‘Because of you’ refers to the rulers (the judges). They were
proud of their buildings. But they had made the buildings unholy.
Soon, the hi...
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THEREFORE SHALL ZION... — Micah declared this sentence of Divine
judgment with an intrepidity that was long remembered by the Jews.
More than a century later the elders of the land, speaking in
justif...
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לָכֵן֙ בִּ גְלַלְכֶ֔ם צִיֹּ֖ון
שָׂדֶ֣ה תֵֽחָרֵ֑שׁ...
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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 PUNISHMENT OF AVARICE
Micah 3:1-12
The princes who as magistrates should have administered justice to
others sat around the caldron, casting in the very flesh and skin of
the people whom they wer...
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Addressing himself directly to the rulers of the people, in this
second message the prophet describes their peculiar sin, and announces
the coming judgment. He then foretells the coming of the one tru...
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Therefore shall Zion for your sake be (k) plowed [as] a field, and
Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the
high places of the forest.
(k) Read (Jeremiah 26:18)....
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_Forests, after its destruction by Nabuchodonosor. (Calmet) --- In the
space of three years' neglect, shrubs were growing in the courts of
the temple, 1 Machabees iv. 38. (Haydock) --- Rufus ploughed...
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REFLECTIONS
BLESSED Lord! we thank thee, that amidst all our unworthiness and
departures, like Israel, thou hast not withdrawn our sabbaths, nor
made the sun to go down upon our Prophets. Still there...
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The Chapter closeth as it opened, full of judgment; but all
preparatory to mercy, as the following Chapter declares. Indeed we
ought to read both together, that we might do as the Psalmist did,
when h...
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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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Now follows a threatening, _Therefore, on your account, Zion as a
field shall be plowed, and Jerusalem a heap shall be, and the mount of
the house as the high places of a forest _We here see how intol...
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The prophet again denounces the heads and princes of Jacob. They
should cry unto Jehovah. But He would not hear them. No prophet should
enlighten them with the light of His word. The seers should be
c...
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THEREFORE SHALL ZION FOR YOUR SAKE BE PLOUGHED [AS] A FIELD,.... That
is, for your sins, as the Targum; for the bloodshed, injustice, and
avarice of the princes, priests, and prophets; not that the co...
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Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed [as] a field, and
Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the
high places of the forest.
Ver. 12. _Therefore shall Zion for your sa...
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_Therefore shall Zion for your sake_ That is, because of your
transgressions, ye judges, priests, and prophets; _be ploughed as a
field_ “There is nothing which hinders us from referring this
prophecy...
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Therefore shall Zion for your sake, on account of their wickedness in
making the Lord's Temple a den of murderers, BE PLOWED AS A FIELD, the
king's quarter turned into tillable soil, AND JERUSALEM, th...
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THE SINS OF THE RULERS AND THE DESOLATION OF ZION.
Also in this Chapter the discourse is directed to the nobility of the
people, who abused the authority of their high official station by
oppressing...
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9-12 Zion's walls owe no thanks to those that build them up with
blood and iniquity. The sin of man works not the righteousness of God.
Even when men do that which in itself is good, but do it for fi...
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By this it appears that this sermon was preached to Judah and its
governors, priests, and prophets, who were thus wicked in Ahaz's time,
and probably continued so in the beginning of Hezekiah's time....
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Micah 3:12 you H1558 Zion H6726 plowed H2790 (H8735) field H7704
Jerusalem H3389 ruins H5856 mountain H2022 temple...
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HE SUMMARISES THE SITUATION IN THE LAND AND DECLARES WHAT WILL COME
UPON THEM AS A RESULT (MICAH 3:9).
Micah now advises the corrupt leaders of their sins and of what is
coming on them because of them...
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THEREFORE
Prediction of the destruction of Jerusalem, fulfilled A.D. 70.
Compare (Daniel 9:26)....
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CONTENTS: Coming judgments of the captivities. The priests and
prophets rebuked.
CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, princes, prophets.
CONCLUSION: Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well simply because...
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Micah 3:10. _They build up Zion with blood._ The Chaldaic reads, they
build up the houses of Zion with blood. They oppress the poor to a
premature death, in order to build their town and country house...
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
MICAH 3:9. HEAR] Resumed from Micah 3:1. HEADS] Whose ungodly conduct
is briefly summed up again. ABHOR] As a thing loathsome and abominable
(Heb.)
MICAH 3:10. BUILD] Lit. building w...
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EXPOSITION
VERSE 3:1-5:15
Part II. DENUNCIATION OF THE CRIMES OF THE GRANDEES, FOLLOWED BY A
PROMISE OF THE GLORIFICATION OF ZION, THE BIRTH...
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Now the Lord speaks of the coming judgment that is going to come
against those that have gone into captivity.
And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the
house of Israel; Is...
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Acts 6:13; Acts 6:14; Isaiah 2:2; Isaiah 2:3; Jeremiah 26:18;...
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For your sake — Because of your sins. The mountain — The mountain,
on which the temple stood. This is that passage, which is quoted,
Jeremiah 26:18, which Hezekiah and his princes took well: yea, they...