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Verse Micah 3:7. _SHALL THE SEERS BE ASHAMED_] For the _false visions_
of comfort and prosperity which they pretended to see.
_AND THE DIVINERS CONFOUNDED_] Who pretended to foretell future
prosperit...
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THEY SHALL COVER THEIR LIPS - Literally, the hair of the upper lip .
This was an action enjoined on lepers Leviticus 13:45, and a token of
mourning Ezekiel 24:17, Ezekiel 24:22; a token then of sorrow...
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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)
Micah 3:1. T...
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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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GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4....
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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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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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Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea,
they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
THEN SHALL THE SEERS BE ASHAMED, AND THE DIVINERS CONFOUNDED; YEA...
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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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THEY SHALL ALL COVER THEIR LIPS. — As the lepers, who were cut off
from all communication with men, so also these false prophets, being
cut off from all communion with God, were to “put a covering upo...
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וּ בֹ֣שׁוּ הַ חֹזִ֗ים וְ חָֽפְרוּ֙ הַ
קֹּ֣סְמִ֔ים וְ עָט֥וּ עַל ־שָׂפָ֖ם
כֻּלָּ֑ם כִּ֛י...
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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 we...
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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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Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea,
they shall all cover (f) their lips; for [there is] no answer of God.
(f) When God will reveal them to the world, they will be afrai...
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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 wit...
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He confirms the same thing in the next verse, _And ashamed shall be
the seers and confounded the diviners, _(102) _and they shall cover
their lip; _that is they will put veils on their mouths. In shor...
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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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THEN SHALL THE SEERS BE ASHAMED, AND THE DIVINERS CONFOUNDED,.... When
the events of things will make it most clearly appear to all that
their visions, divinations, and prophecies, are false; they wil...
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Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea,
they shall all cover their lips; for [there is] no answer of God.
Ver. 7. _Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners
confoun...
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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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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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LIPS:
_ Heb._ upper lip...
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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 w...
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THEN; in the days of this calamity, which shall confute all the
flattering promises of these prophets. THE SEERS, who called
themselves, were accounted by others, and were advised with as men
that had...
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Micah 3:7 seers H2374 ashamed H954 (H8804) diviners H7080 (H8802)
abashed H2659 (H8804) cover H5844 (H8804) lips H8222 answer H4617 God
H430
the seers - Exodus 8:18-19, Exodus 9:11; 1 Samuel 9:9;...
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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 h...
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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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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 h...
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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 OF MESSIAH, AND THE
HIGHEST EXALTATION OF THE PEOPLE.
MI...
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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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1 Samuel 14:37; 1 Samuel 28:15; 1 Samuel 28:6; 1 Samuel 9:9; 2 Timothy
3:8; 2 Timothy 3:9; Amos 8:11; Daniel 2:9; Exodus 8:18; Exodus 8:19;...
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The seers — So called by the deceived people. Cover their lips —
Mourners did thus, Ezekiel 24:17, Ezekiel 24:22. So these shall mourn
and pine in their shame. No answer — Because the answer they had...