Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Micah 2:3
I devise an evil. — As they devise evil against their brethren, so am I devising an evil against them: they shall bow their necks under a hostile yoke.
I devise an evil. — As they devise evil against their brethren, so am I devising an evil against them: they shall bow their necks under a hostile yoke.
Verse Micah 2:3. _AGAINST THIS FAMILY_ (the Israelites) _DO I DEVISE AN_ _EVIL_] You have _devised_ the evil of _plundering_ the upright; I will devise the evil to you of _punishment_ for your conduc...
Such had been their habitual doings. They had done all this, he says, as one continuous act, up to that time. They were habitually devisers of iniquity, doers of evil. It was ever-renewed. By night th...
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...
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. THIS FAMILY. Compare Amos 3:1. I DEVISE. The contrast to Micah 2:1. EVIL. calamity Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44....
_Therefore_, &c. The -devising" of the dishonest grandees is met by the -devising" of Jehovah; oppression is punished by oppression. Comp. the striking correspondences between sins and their punishmen...
_PUNISHMENT FOR EVIL DOERS -- MICAH 2:1-3:_ God told these people that they were doomed for their premeditated sins. God hates all kinds of sins but He especially hates planned sins. The people of Isr...
FOR THIS TIME IS EVIL— _For an evil time shall that be._...
CHAPTER VII SECOND CYCLE WOE TO THE ARROGANT MISLEADERS. Micah 2:1-3 RV. Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in...
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil. BEHOLD, AGAINST THI...
THIS FAMILY] cp. 'The whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt' (Amos 3:1). I DEVISE] as contrasted with their devising (Micah 2:1). 4. Turning AWAY] RV 'to the rebellious,' i.e. God d...
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...
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...
God is planning trouble for the ‘family’. That means all the people in *Israel. Some people *sin. But the whole family suffers. The leaders especially are guilty. The army from Assyria will bring trou...
לָכֵ֗ן כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה הִנְנִ֥י חֹשֵׁ֛ב...
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...
_Time. It was very near. Micheas saw the ruin of Samaria, under Theglathphalassar and Salmanasar._...
When we consider the Lord's dealings with Israel, we cannot sufficiently lament their depravity. Other nations of the earth, which knew not the Lord, we behold with a different aspect to that of the s...
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...
_GOD’S MESSAGE IN EVIL TIMES_ ‘Thus saith the Lord.’ Micah 2:3 I. IF THE FORMER CHAPTER DEALS WITH SINS AGAINST THE FIRST TABLE OF THE LAW, THIS DEALS WITH THOSE AGAINST THE SECOND.—Men are depicte...
The Prophet shows now that the avaricious were in vain elevated by their frauds and rapacity, because their hope would be disappointed; for God in heaven was waiting his time to appear against them. 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...
THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD, BEHOLD, AGAINST THIS FAMILY DO I DEVISE AN EVIL,.... Because of those evils of covetousness, oppression, and injustice, secretly devised, and deliberately committed, the...
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time [is] evil. Ver. 3. _Behold, aga...
_Therefore, behold, against this family do I devise evil_ As they devise mischief against others, so will I devise an evil against them, as a due punishment for their sin. As they have unjustly depriv...
DENUNCIATION OF THE PREVALENT EVILS...
Therefore, thus saith the Lord, Behold, against this family, upon this generation of evil-doers, DO I DEVISE AN EVIL, He, in turn, planning how He may punish them adequately with a severe judgment, FR...
1-5 Woe to the people that devise evil during the night, and rise early to carry it into execution! It is bad to do mischief on a sudden thought, much worse to do it with design and forethought. It i...
THEREFORE; for this great, inhuman, cruel oppression. Thus saith the Lord; the Lord by his prophet declareth what he will do, and adviseth them to consider it, for it is a most manifest retaliation or...
Micah 2:3 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 family H4940 devising H2803 (H8802) disaster H7451 remove H4185 ...
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...
_Therefore, thus saith the Lord: Behold, against this family do I devise evil _ THE GREAT ANTAGONIST Here is Micah, the flesh child of the country, who has communed with the Lord God in the ploughed...
_And they covet fields, and take them by violence _ AVARICE Greed is the spring and spirit of all oppression. Here rapacious avarice is presented in three aspects. I. Scheming in the night. When a...
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 2:3 AGAINST THIS FAMILY. The entire community is accountable for the sins of its leaders. A TIME OF DISASTER. See Amos 5:13.
CRITICAL NOTES.] MICAH 2:3. FAMILY] Nation. DEVISE] Cf. Micah 2:1, “to set clearly before our eyes the _jus talionis_ prevalent in God’s providence” (Exodus 21:23;...
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 2:14; Amos 3:1; Amos 3:2; Amos 5:13; Amos 9:1;...
Against this family — God will devise evil against their family, as they devised evil against the family of their neighbours. Haughty — You have made others hang the head; so shall you now. Is evil —...