This is not your rest. — The Lord, requiting them for their cruelty to the poor and defenceless, declares that their own time of trouble was imminent. They should be thrust forth from the land which they polluted. It was no place of rest for them. “There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.”
Verse Micah 2:10. _ARISE YE, AND DEPART_] Prepare for your captivity; ye shall have no _resting_ place here: the very _land is polluted_ by your iniquities, and shall vomit you out, and it shall be _d...
ARISE YE AND DEPART - Go your way, as being cast out of God’s care and land. It matters not where they went. “For this is not your rest.” As ye have done, so shall it be done unto you. As ye cast out...
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...
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...
ARISE YE, &C. Usually misquoted in. good sense; but the Structure shows it to be part of the lamentation (p. 1253). THIS. this [land]. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 12:9). App-92. IT: i.e. th...
_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...
ARISE YE, AND DEPART— These words are addressed to the true worshippers of God, who dwelt in the kingdom of Israel, and who were part of _all that Jacob,_ whom God, in the 12th verse, promises to _ass...
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...
Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction. ARISE YE, AND DEPART - not an exhortation to the children of God to depa...
2:10 that (c-14) Or 'because it is defiled, it.'...
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...
BECAUSE it IS POLLUTED, etc.] better, 'because of uncleanness ye shall be destroyed with a sore destruction.' They shall be driven from the land from which they have driven others. Their guilt makes t...
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...
‘Place where you can rest’ seems to refer to peace and safety. Ordinary people were happy and they were content with their situation. Then the evil rulers took away the place where they rested. God wo...
ק֣וּמוּ וּ לְכ֔וּ כִּ֥י לֹא ־זֹ֖את הַ
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...
Arise ye, and depart; for this [is] not [your] (l) rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy [you], even with a sore destruction. (l) Jerusalem will not be your safeguard, but rather the cause o...
_Corruption. Your sins will not permit you to remain any longer, and strangers shall defile this land. (Calmet)_...
I would read this verse by itself, because I humbly conceive, that it is not connected with what went before, neither in what follows. And moreover, I think it is a blessed verse, suitable to be read...
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...
Here again the Prophet checks the foolish confidence of the people. The land of Canaan, we know, had been honored by God with the distinction of being a rest; yea God called it, not only the rest of 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...
ARISE YE, AND DEPART,.... That is, out the land; do not think of a continuance in it, but expect a removal from it; prepare for captivity and exile; look for it every moment, to hear it said to you, a...
Arise ye, and depart; for this [is] not [your] rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy [you], even with a sore destruction. Ver. 10. _Arise ye and depart_] _Veteres migrate coloni,_ make up yo...
_Arise ye, and depart_ Ye Israelites prepare for your departure out of this land, for it shall be no longer yours; _it is not your rest, because it is polluted_ Though it was given to the posterity of...
Expulsion of the Leaders and Restoration Of The Lord's People...
Arise ye and depart! into the exile which the enemies would force upon them; FOR THIS IS NOT YOUR REST, they would not be permitted to remain in Canaan; BECAUSE IT IS POLLUTED, IT SHALL DESTROY YOU, E...
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...
ARISE YE, AND DEPART; you inhabitants of Israel, especially you oppressors, bestir yourselves. and prepare for your departure out of this land; for, will ye nill ye, so it is, you shall be carried awa...
Micah 2:10 Arise H6965 (H8798) depart H3212 (H8798) rest H4496 defiled H2930 (H8800) destroy H2254 ...
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...
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...
_Arise ye, and depart: for this is not your rest; because it is polluted _ NO REST, AND THE REASON WHY Above all lands the land of Canaan seemed most adapted for a place of rest. And the people who...
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 2:10 ARISE AND GO... NO PLACE TO REST. The UNCLEANNESS of their injustice has denied rest to others, and so the Lord demands that the people be exiled from their own place of rest....
CRITICAL NOTES.] MICAH 2:8. LATE] Lit. yesterday = not long since; or again, recently, the people stood up, took an hostile attitude. PULL OFF] Not content with the outer garment, they rob passers-by...
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...
1 Kings 9:7; 2 Chronicles 36:20; 2 Chronicles 36:21; 2 Chronicles 7:20;...
Arise ye — Ye inhabitants of Israel, prepare for your departure out of this land. Your rest — Though it was given this people for a rest under God's wing; yet it was on condition of continued obedienc...