The word of the LORD that came to Micah the (a) Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. The Argument - Micah the prophet of the tribe of Judah served in the work of the Lord concerning Judah and Israel at least thirty ye... [ Continue Reading ]
Hear, (b) all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple. (b) Because of the malice and obstinacy of the people, whom he had so often exhorted to repentance, he summons them to God's judgments, taking all creature... [ Continue Reading ]
For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come (c) down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. (c) Meaning by this that God will come to judgment against the strong cities and strongholds.... [ Continue Reading ]
For the transgression of Jacob [is] all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What [is] the transgression of Jacob? [is it] not (d) Samaria? and what [are] the high (e) places of Judah? [are they] not Jerusalem? (d) Samaria, which should have been an example to all Israel of true religion... [ Continue Reading ]
And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the (f) hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered [it] of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return (g) to the hire of an harlot. (f) Which they gathered by evi... [ Continue Reading ]
Declare ye [it] not at (h) Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of (i) Aphrah roll thyself in the dust. (h) Lest the Philistines our enemies rejoice at our destruction. (i) Which was a city near to Jerusalem (Joshua 18:23), there called Ophrah, and signifies dust: therefore he wants them to mour... [ Continue Reading ]
Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of (k) Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Bethezel; he shall (l) receive of you his standing. (k) These were cities by which the enemy would pass as he came to Judah. (l) He will not depart before he has overcome... [ Continue Reading ]
For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the (m) gate of Jerusalem. (m) For Rabshakeh had shut up Jerusalem, so that they could not send to help them.... [ Continue Reading ]
O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the (n) swift beast: she (o) [is] the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee. (n) To flee away: for Sennacherib laid siege first to that city, and remained there when he sent his captains an... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore shalt thou give presents to (p) Moreshethgath: the houses of Achzib [shall be] a lie to the kings of Israel. (p) You will bribe the Philistines your neighbours, but they will deceive you, as well as those of Jerusalem.... [ Continue Reading ]
Yet will I bring an (q) heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam (r) the glory of Israel. (q) He prophesies against his own city: and because it signified a heritage, he says that God would send an heir to possess it. (r) For so they thought themselves because of the st... [ Continue Reading ]