THE WORD OF THE LORD. The only occurrence of this expression in this book: bidding us to receive it from Jehovah, not Micah, and to note Micah's pen but Jehovah's words. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. MICAH. Who is like Jehovah? An abbreviated form of _Micaiah_ (2 Chronicles 18:7, &c.); it is... [ Continue Reading ]
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; Micah 6:2. Five times, not three, as some say; and forms no part of the Structure of the whole book. Reference to Pentateuch (Deut... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. TREAD UPON, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:13; Deuteronomy 33:29). App-92. Compare Amos 4:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MOUNTAINS, &C. This verse foretells the calamities of 2 Kings 17 and 25.... [ Continue Reading ]
TRANSGRESSION. rebellion. Hebrew. _pasha'._ App-44. SINS. Hebrew. _chata'._ App-44. Aram, and Syriac read singular. WHAT. Whose. IS IT NOT SAMARIA?. is it not Samaria's [idolatry]? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. HIGH PLACES. Compare 1 Kings 12:31; 1 Kings 14:23.Ezekiel 6:6. These existed in... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOVER, &C. This has now recently (1911) been done in the unearthing of Ahab's wine-cellars.... [ Continue Reading ]
GRAVEN IMAGES. Hebrew. _pesilim._ Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 20:4). App-92. HIRES. The technical Pentateuchal word for. harlot's hire, to which idolatry is compared. Compare Hosea 8:9; Hosea 8:10; Hosea 9:1. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 23:18). App-92. THEY SHALL RETURN, &C.: i.e. the... [ Continue Reading ]
WAIL. lament. Compare the Structure above; and note weight of the prophetic "burden". DRAGONS. jackals. OWLS. Hebrew daughters of. doleful cry.... [ Continue Reading ]
WOUND. stroke. Hebrew. _makkah_ (feminine) IT. Aramaean and Syriac read "she". Referring to her stroke, which is feminine. HE. he, referring to some unnamed foe. Aram, and Syriac read "she", referring to the "stroke" of judgment. THE GATE. Compare Obadiah 1:11; Obadiah 1:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
DECLARE YE IT NOT AT GATH. Compare 2 Samuel 1:20. GATH. Now _Tell es Safi_ (Joshua 11:22, &c). AT ALL. Hebrew. _bakko,_ written _defectively_ for _beakko._ Note the Figure of speech _Paronomasia_ (App-6). Hebrew. _bakko 'al tibku_ "[in] Weep-town _weep_ not". IN... APHRAH ROLL THYSELF IN THE DUST... [ Continue Reading ]
PASS YE AWAY: i.e. go into exile. SAPHIR, HAVING THY SHAME, &C. Here we have contrast. Saphir. Beautytown, with beauty shamed; now _es Suafir._ INHABITANT OF ZAANAN CAME NOT FORTH. Hebrew not gone forth hath... Zaanan. Hebrew Figure of speech _Paronomasia_ (App-6): _lo yatz'ah._.. _tz'anan =_ not... [ Continue Reading ]
MAROTH WAITED CAREFULLY. The inhabitress of Bitter town bitterly grieved for her goods [taken from her]. EVIL. calamity. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. Not by chance. THE GATE OF JERUSALEM. In Taylor's Cylinder, Sennacherib mentions his breaking of this gate (col. ii... [ Continue Reading ]
INHABITANT. inhabitress. LACHISH... SWIFT BEAST. Note the Figure of speech _Paronomasia_ (App-6). Hebrew. _larekesh... lakish_. [bind the chariot] to the horse,. inhabitress of Horse-town, LACHISH. Now _Ummtum Lakis,_ or _Tell el Hesy._ See notes on 2 Kings 14:19; 2 Kings 19:8. SHE. Evidently Sam... [ Continue Reading ]
GIVE PRESENTS TO. give up possessions at. ACHZIB... A LIE. Note the Figure of speech _Paronomasia,_. the houses of False-town (_'Akzib)_ shall prove false (_iakzab)._ ACHZIB. Now _es Zib_ (Joshua 15:44; Joshua 19:29; Judges 1:31).... [ Continue Reading ]
AN HEIR... MARESHAH. Hebrew the possessor (_hayyoresh)_... O Possession (_Mareshah)_. The possessor whom Jehovah would bring was Assyria. HE SHALL COME, &C. The glory: i.e. the nobility (Isaiah 5:13) of Israel shall go (or flee) unto [the cave] Adullam; as David had done (1 Samuel 22:1).... [ Continue Reading ]
MAKE THEE BALD, &C. The signs of mourning. Compare Job 1:20; Isaiah 15:2; Isaiah 22:12.Jeremiah 7:29; Jeremiah 16:6; Jeremiah 47:5; Jeremiah 48:37). This is addressed to Judah. It was forbidden under the law (Deuteronomy 14:1). Judah had become as the heathen: let them mourn as the heathen.... [ Continue Reading ]