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THEREFORE NIGHT SHALL BE UNTO YOU, THAT YE SHALL NOT HAVE A VISION -
In the presence of God’s extreme judgments, even deceivers are at
length still; silenced at last by the common misery, if not by aw...
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THE SECOND PROPHETIC MESSAGE
CHAPTER 3
_ 1. Address to the godless princes and judges (Micah 3:1) _
2. Address to the false prophets (Micah 3:5)
3. The verdict of judgment (Micah 3:9)...
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THE UNJUST RULERS AND FALSE PROPHETS OF JUDAH. Micah first addresses
those whose official duty it is to know justice, _i.e._
sympathetically, and declares that in fact they love its opposite, and
crue...
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THAT YE SHALL NOT DIVINE. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 18:10;
Deuteronomy 18:14.Numbers 22:7; Numbers 23:23). App-92....
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_THE SINS OF THE PROPHETS -- MICAH 3:5-8:_ The prophets declared peace
when there was no peace. The very ones that should have helped the
people walk with God caused them to err. These false prophets...
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AND THE SUN SHALL GO DOWN, &C.— "You shall be in confusion, and in
grief, despised and ill-treated; not able to open your mouth, when the
people carried with you into captivity shall accuse you of the...
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MERCENARY PROPHETS. Micah 3:5-8
RV. Thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that make my people to
err; that bite with their teeth and cry, Peace; and whoso putteth not
into their mouths, they even...
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Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision;
and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun
shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark ove...
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WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES
Micah returns to his indictment against the people's leaders. Their
power was given for the sake of justice, and they have abused it for
extortion (Micah 3:1). Their time sha...
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MICAH SPEAKS A MESSAGE FROM GOD TO ALL THE NATIONS
MICAH
_LES PAINTER_
CHAPTER 3
SECTION 2
3:1-5:15 MICAH ACCUSES FALSE LEADERS. HE PROMISES THAT A GOOD, FAIR
KING WILL COME
3:1-12 THE FALSE LEA...
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*Prophets have dreams. The dreams often come at night. God speaks to
*prophets in this way. It is God’s gift to them. But God now takes
away that gift from these *prophets. So they do not receive mone...
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לָכֵ֞ן לַ֤יְלָה לָכֶם֙ מֵֽ חָזֹ֔ון וְ
חָשְׁכָ
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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...
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THE PUNISHMENT OF AVARICE
Micah 3:1-12
The princes who as magistrates should have administered justice to
others sat around the caldron, casting in the very flesh and skin of
the people whom they wer...
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Addressing himself directly to the rulers of the people, in this
second message the prophet describes their peculiar sin, and announces
the coming judgment. He then foretells the coming of the one tru...
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Therefore (e) night [shall be] unto you, that ye shall not have a
vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and
the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dar...
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_Vision. Impostors shall skulk through fear, when the people shall see
that they were not sent, ver. 7._...
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But here we have the most awful account, when the ministers of God, or
the pretenders to that ministry, are given up to a deluded mind. While
the Lord keeps his sanctuary pure, and the streams unpollu...
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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...
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_BLIND LEADERS_
‘Therefore … ye shall have no vision.’
Micah 3:6 (R.V.)
It is not difficult to understand why these prophets could not have a
vision. Their eyes were darkened by self-interest so th...
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God declares here to the false teachers by the mouth of Micah, that he
would inflict punishment on them, so that they should be exposed to
the reproach of all. Hence the kind of punishment of which th...
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The prophet again denounces the heads and princes of Jacob. They
should cry unto Jehovah. But He would not hear them. No prophet should
enlighten them with the light of His word. The seers should be
c...
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THEREFORE NIGHT [SHALL BE] UNTO YOU, THAT YE SHALL NOT HAVE A
VISION,.... Not that those outward gifts and illuminations, and that
prophetic light they had, or seemed to have should be taken away from...
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Therefore night [shall be] unto you, that ye shall not have a vision;
and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun
shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark ov...
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_Therefore night shall be unto you_ Darkness, uncertainty, perplexity,
and heavy troubles, shall be to you prophets; _that ye shall not have
a vision_ You shall see your predictions so fully confuted,...
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Therefore night shall be unto you that ye shall not have a vision,
being excluded from the light granted by the Spirit of God; AND IT
SHALL BE DARK UNTO YOU THAT YE SHALL NOT DIVINE, be granted no
rev...
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THE SINS OF THE RULERS AND THE DESOLATION OF ZION.
Also in this Chapter the discourse is directed to the nobility of the
people, who abused the authority of their high official station by
oppressing...
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THAT YE SHALL NOT HAVE A VISION:
_ Heb._ from a vision
THAT YE SHALL NOT DIVINE:
_ Heb._ from divining...
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1-8 Men cannot expect to do ill, and fare well; but to find that done
to them which they did to others. How seldom do wholesome truths reach
the ears of those in high stations or in authority! Those...
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THEREFORE; because of their irreligious and atheistical pretences to
Divine revelations, and to come from heaven with promises directly
contrary to God's purpose and word, even when their consciences...
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Micah 3:6 night H3915 vision H2377 darkness H2821 (H8675) H2821
(H8804) divination H7080 (H8800) sun...
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MICAH'S INDICTMENT OF JUDAH (MICAH 3:1).
Micah inveighs first against the leadership of Judah, and then against
the prophets who make people err for the sake of money, and the
priests who teach for hi...
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CONTENTS: Coming judgments of the captivities. The priests and
prophets rebuked.
CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, princes, prophets.
CONCLUSION: Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well simply because...
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Micah 3:10. _They build up Zion with blood._ The Chaldaic reads, they
build up the houses of Zion with blood. They oppress the poor to a
premature death, in order to build their town and country house...
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_Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make My people err _
FALSE PROPHETS
Here the prophet attacks the false prophets, as before he had attacked
the “princes.
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I. They are DECEIVING....
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MICAH 3:1 The Present Injustice and the Future Prospect of Just Rule
in Jerusalem. The second section focuses on the corrupt leadership in
the house of Israel (Micah 3:1). Jerusalem’s restoration amon...
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MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 3:6 NO ANSWER FROM GOD. God does not give his
word to the false prophets. As with the civil leaders (v. Micah 3:4),
God’s silence is part of their sentence.
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
MICAH 3:5. PROPHETS] False prophets flatter and promise security from
judgment. BITE] Like serpents; cry, PEACE] When they are doing
mischief. PREPARE] Lit. “_sanctify war_ against hi...
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EXPOSITION
VERSE 3:1-5:15
Part II. DENUNCIATION OF THE CRIMES OF THE GRANDEES, FOLLOWED BY A
PROMISE OF THE GLORIFICATION OF ZION, THE BIRTH...
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Now the Lord speaks of the coming judgment that is going to come
against those that have gone into captivity.
And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the
house of Israel; Is...
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Amos 8:10; Amos 8:9; Ezekiel 13:22; Ezekiel 13:23; Isaiah 29:10;...
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Night — Heavy calamities. A vision — You shall no more pretend to
have a vision, or dare to foretell any thing. And the sun — The hand
of God shall be against them, making their sorrows the more dread...