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Verse Micah 2:11. _IF A MAN WALKING IN THE SPIRIT AND FALSEHOOD_] The
meaning is: If a man who professes to be _Divinely inspired_ do _lie_,
by prophesying of plenty, c., then such a person shall be...
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IF A MAN WALKING IN THE SPIRIT AND FALSEHOOD - Literally, “in
spirit” (not My Spirit) “and falsehood,” that is, in a lying
spirit; such as they, whose woe Ezekiel pronounces Ezekiel 13:3,
“Woe unto th...
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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...
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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...
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WINE. Hebrew. _yayin._ App-27.
STRONG DRINK. Hebrew. _shekar._ App-27.
PROPHET. sputterer; as in Micah 2:6. Literally dropper [of words]....
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_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...
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IF A MAN, &C.— _If a man, walking after the wind,_ or _pursuing
vanity and falsehood, do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee for
wine and for strong drink,_ &c....
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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...
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If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will
prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the
prophet of this people.
IF A MAN WALKING IN THE SPIRIT - the...
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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...
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IN THE SPIRIT AND FALSEHOOD] better, 'after wind and lies.' What
promises material benefits alone appeals to them.
12, 13. An oracle of restoration, which has been inserted between the
two denunciati...
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This is Micah’s message. If he *prophesies any more, he will be
wasting time. The evil rulers, traders and employers listen to the
false *prophets. But they do not ask whether those *prophets are real...
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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...
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IF A MAN WALKING IN THE SPIRIT AND FALSEHOOD — _i.e.,_ in a lying
spirit, speaking smooth and pleasant things, such as the people loved
to hear, after the fashion of Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah — h...
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לוּ ־אִ֞ישׁ הֹלֵ֥ךְ ר֨וּחַ֙ וָ
שֶׁ֣קֶר כִּזֵּ
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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 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...
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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...
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Would God, &c. The prophet could have wished, out of his love to his
people, that he might be deceived in denouncing to them these evils
that were to fall upon them: but by conforming himself to the w...
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Here is a very awful scripture. The Lord alone knows in how many
instances it may be daily fulfilling. Alas! when false teachers are
given to a people of a deluded mind, what a state must that people...
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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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The Prophet points out here another vice by which the people were
infected — that they wished to be soothed with flatteries: for all
the ungodly think that they are in a manner exempt from God’s
judgm...
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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...
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IF A MAN WALKING IN THE SPIRIT AND FALSEHOOD DO LIE,.... Who pretends
to be a prophet, and a spiritual man, and to be under the inspiration
and influence of the Spirit of God, but utters nothing but l...
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If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, [saying], I will
prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the
prophet of this people.
Ver. 11. _If a man, walking in the s...
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_If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood_ If a man falsely
pretending to have the spirit of prophecy, _do lie_ Speak things very
false, and utter pretended predictions of events that shall never...
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Expulsion of the Leaders and Restoration Of The Lord's People...
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If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood, in vanity and falsehood,
namely, in preaching his own ideas, DO LIE, SAYING, I WILL PROPHESY
UNTO THEE OF WINE AND OF STRONG DRINK, that is, of the enjoym...
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WALKING IN THE SPIRIT AND FALSEHOOD:
Or, walk with the wind, and lie falsely...
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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...
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This people were weary of true prophets, and silenced them, MICAH 2:6,
but they were fondly taken with the false prophets, and what these
promised them; and these, as here described, are by a dreadful...
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Micah 2:11 If H3863 man H376 walk H1980 (H8802) false H8267 spirit
H7307 lie H3576 (H8765) prophesy...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie,.. .he shall even
be the prophet of this people _
ISRAEL’S POPULAR PREACHER
This is Micah’s idea of the kind of prophet (or, as we should say,
pu...
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MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 2:11 PREACH... OF WINE. The people welcomed
“preaching” that emphasized overindulgence. They did not want to
hear that they were violating God’s standards....
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
MICAH 2:11. SPIRIT] Lit. walk in the wind, sig. what is vain or
worthless (Isaiah 26:18; Isaiah 41:29); some, “the man of spirit,
_i.e._ claiming inspiration.” PROPHESY] Soothe you in...
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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...
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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...
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1 John 4:1; 1 Kings 13:18; 1 Kings 22:21; 1 Kings 22:6;...
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Walking — If a man pretend to have the spirit of prophesy. Saying
— You shall have plenty of days, and may eat, drink, and be merry.
He shall even be the prophet — Such they like and chuse....