As the flock, &c.— They shall make a great noise on account of the multitude of men, as the flock in the midst of the fold. God is often styled the Shepherd of Israel; and his care over his believing people is compared to that of a shepherd over his flock, when he gathers them into the fold, and defends them from beasts of prey. See Houbigant and Lowth.
Verse Micah 2:12. _I WILL SURELY ASSEMBLE_] This is a promise of the restoration of Israel from captivity. He compares them to a flock of sheep rushing together to their fold, the _hoofs_ of which ma...
I WILL SURELY ASSEMBLE, O JACOB, ALL OF THEE; I WILL SURELY GATHER THE REMNANT OF ISRAEL - God’s mercy on the penitent and believing being the end of all His threatenings, the mention of it often burs...
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...
MICAH 2:12 F. A PROMISE OF RESTORATION. This is a later insertion in Micah's prophecy, analogous to Micah 4, and presupposing the Jewish exile and dispersion. Yahweh will shepherd (Psalms 23:1) the re...
I WILL, &C. See the Structure, p. 1253. ISRAEL. See note on Genesis 32:28; Genesis 43:6; Genesis 45:26; Genesis 45:28....
_A PROMISE OF HOPE -- MICAH 2:12-13:_ The subject quickly changed as the Lord predicted the restoration of the remnant of Israel to their homeland. He promised, "I will gather them, just as a shepherd...
JUDGEMENTS TEMPERED BY PROMISES. Micah 2:12-13 RV. I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as a flock...
I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make gre...
2:12 Bozrah, (d-27) Or 'in a fold.'...
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...
THE SHEEP OF BOZRAH, etc.] better, 'as sheep into a fold, as a flock into the midst of the pasture.' The GREAT NOISE is the noise of the joy at return. 13. Read the verbs throughout as perfect. The w...
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...
Micah has spoken hard things to *Israel’s people. The army from Assyria will soon come to kill them. That army will even destroy the land. God has told the people to get up. He has told them to go far...
I WILL SURELY ASSEMBLE... — With a characteristic abruptness Micah turns from the height of sin and punishment to the height of the deliverance — from Ebal to Gerizim. Israel and the remnant shall be...
אָסֹ֨ף אֶאֱסֹ֜ף יַעֲקֹ֣ב כֻּלָּ֗ךְ קַבֵּ֤ץ אֲקַבֵּץ֙...
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...
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...
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...
I will surely assemble, O Jacob, (o) all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make...
_Assemble. God shews his mercy, in gathering his Church out of all nations. (Worthington) --- At least the Jews shall be converted, (Romans xi. 25.; St. Jerome; Eusebius, Dem. ii. 50.) or they shall b...
Remark, Reader, in the worst of times, how the Lord is richly giving out sweet promises concerning the Lord Jesus Christ to his people. For to whom is the gathering of the people to be, but to the Lor...
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...
The exposition of this passage is twofold. The greater part of interpreters incline to this view, — that God here promises some alleviation to the Israelites, after having sharply reproved them, and t...
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...
I WILL SURELY ASSEMBLE, O JACOB, ALL OF THEE,.... These words are either the words of the false prophet continued, that prophesied of wine and strong drink, as Aben Ezra; promising great plenty and pr...
I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make grea...
_I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee_, &c. Many commentators, connecting these verses with the preceding, interpret them as a prediction of the captivity of Israel and Judah. By _assembling a...
I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee, all those whom He intended as members of His congregation; I WILL SURELY GATHER THE REMNANT OF ISRAEL, collecting the believers from all the nations of th...
Expulsion of the Leaders and Restoration Of The Lord's People...
12,13 These verses may refer to the captivity of Israel and Judah. But the passage is also a prophecy of the conversion of the Jews to Christ. The Lord would not only bring them from captivity, and m...
There are three different interpretations of this verse, of which it is hard to say which is most agreeable to the intent of this scripture; I will propose all three, and leave each reader to choose f...
Micah 2:12 surely H622 (H8800) assemble H622 (H8799) Jacob H3290 surely H6908 (H8763) gather H6908 ...
YHWH WILL GATHER THE REMNANT OF ISRAEL LIKE A SHEPHERD GATHERS HIS SHEEP AND LEADS THEM HOME (MICAH 2:12). As regularly happens on the prophets Micah now follows the bad news with good news. This was...
REMNANT (_ See Scofield) - (Jeremiah 15:21). _...
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...
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...
_I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee _ GOSPEL WORK The prophet here passes from threats to promises. The future was to embrace two things. 1. A grand gathering. Jacob and the remnant of I...
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 2:12 The first main section ends with the Shepherd of Israel gathering his sheep into the protective fold and leading them out as their triumphant King. ⇐
CRITICAL NOTES.] MICAH 2:11. SPIRIT] Lit. walk in the wind, sig. what is vain or worthless (Isaiah 26:18; Isaiah 41:29); some, “the man of spirit, _i.e._ claiming inspiration.” PROPHESY] Soothe you in...
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...
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...
Amos 1:12; Ezekiel 34:11; Ezekiel 34:22; Ezekiel 34:31; Ezekiel 36:37
Them — All the remnant. As the sheep — ln great numbers. Their fold — Their own fold, where they are safe. The multitude of men — This was fulfilled in part, when the Jews returned out of Babylon, but...