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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Micah 4:12

They know not the thoughts of the Lord. — As a commentary upon this passage, we may compare the message of God with reference to the haughty thoughts of Sennacherib. Then the Lord declared that the Assyrian king was but His instrument in all he had done; so that when he presumed to arrogate to himself the glory of his victories, the Lord revoked his commission: “I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou carnest.” And so it came to pass.

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See also Micah 4:12 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Micah 4:12. _BUT THEY KNOW NOT THE THOUGHTS OF THE LORD_] These think that God has utterly rejected his people, and they shall have a troublesome neighbour no more: but this is not his design;...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BUT THEY KNOW NOT THE THOUGHTS OF THE LORD, NEITHER UNDERSTAND THEY HIS COUNSEL - The pagan did, for their own ends, what God willed for His. The first step was the same; God willed that His people sh...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 4 _ 1. The future of glory (Micah 4:1) _ 2. The restoration and the final victory (Micah 4:6) Micah 4:1. The last verse predicted the long desolation and ruin of Zion. This is followed at on...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THEY KNOW NOT. Compare Isaiah 55:8; Jeremiah 29:11. THOUGHTS. purposes, or plans: i.e. for Israel in purging him of idolatry by his tribulation. COUNSEL: i.e. with regard to themselves. The reason f...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    DISTRESS AND REDEMPTION. Micah 4:9 to Micah 5:1 RV. Now why doest thou cry out aloud? Is there no king in thee, is thy counsellor perished, that pangs have taken hold of thee as of a woman in travail?...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor. BUT THEY KNOW NOT THE THOUGHTS OF THE LORD. Their unsearchab...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    BRIGHT VISIONS OF THE FUTURE Micah's view of Israel's future, especially in relation to the nations. He believes that God chose Israel to maintain and teach true religion, and that in this lies Israel...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    HE SHALL GATHER] RV 'He hath gathered.' God has brought them to their ruin....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    However, these armies do not understand what God is doing. They do not realise that God is using them. He is causing their defeat. They gather against Jerusalem. But it is the *LORD who gathers them....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הֵ֗מָּה לֹ֤א יָֽדְעוּ֙ מַחְשְׁבֹ֣ות יְהוָ֔ה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    From this scene of a corrupt people governed by corrupt rulers, the prophet lifts his eyes, and looking into the future sees the day when under true government deliverance will be wrought and the divi...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    But they (m) know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor. (m) He shows that the faithful ought not to measure God's...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Consolation follows, _But they know not the thoughts of Jehovah, nor understand his counsel_: for verbs in the past tense have the meaning of the present. Here the Prophet recalls the attention of the...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    But again the prophet, in the spirit of Isaiah, concludes his denunciations of sin, and his prophecies of judgment and desolation, by announcing the full re-establishment of blessing and glory in Zion...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Now also_ The time is at hand; _many nations are gathered against thee_ This may be understood of the Chaldeans and their associates, who pleased themselves with the thoughts of profaning the temple,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    But they know not the thoughts of the Lord, the object which He has in mind in thus dealing with His people, NEITHER UNDERSTAND THEY HIS COUNSEL, which intended to lead His people to repentance and to...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ZION ESTABLISHED THROUGHOUT THE EARTH...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    9-13 Many nations would assemble against Zion to rejoice in her calamities. They would not understand that the Lord had collected them as sheaves are gathered to be threshed; and that Zion would be s...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    BUT THEY, the gathered confederate nations, Zion's enemies, KNOW NOT, neither discern nor consider, the thoughts of the Lord; the design of the holy, just, gracious, and faithful God, who is the God o...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Micah 4:12 know H3045 (H8804) thoughts H4284 LORD H3068 understand H995 (H8689) counsel H6098 gather H6908 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    MICAH DESCRIBES THE COMING TRIBULATIONS OF JUDAH BUT GIVES THE FINAL ASSURANCE THAT IN THE END YHWH WILL TRIUMPH (MICAH 4:9). The near future is seen as bleak. Judah and Jerusalem are seen as in despa...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The future kingdom of Christ on earth and Israel's happy regathering. Battle of Armageddon. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: In the last days of the age, the Kingdom of Christ shall be...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Micah 4:1. _In the last days it shall come to pass._ In the new times, as in Isaiah 4., which Micah had read, and now repeats by the Spirit. In the gospel age the new-testament church, built above the...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 4:8 As the kingdom is established (Micah 4:8), the focus moves from distress and salvation (Micah 4:9) to messianic

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 4:12 HIS PLAN... HE HAS GATHERED. The nations have assembled themselves (v. Micah 4:11), and yet it is Yahweh who brings them to his thr

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES. Micah 4:9.] Zion will lose her king, wander into captivity, but will be redeemed from her enemies. KING] Loss of royal government, the cause of lamentation, more painful to Israel tha...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 21:10; Isaiah 55:8; Jeremiah 29:11; Joel 3:12; Joel 3:13;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The thoughts — The design of the holy, just and faithful God. As the sheaves — The husbandman gathers the sheaves into the floor to thresh them; so God in due time will bring his enemies together, tha...

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