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Verse Micah 4:11. _MANY NATIONS ARE GATHERED AGAINST THEE_] The
Chaldeans, who were composed of many nations. And, we may add, all the
surrounding nations were their enemies; and rejoiced when the Cha...
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NOW ALSO - (And now.) The prophet had already spoken of the future
before them, with this word Now. Then, he distinctly prophesied the
captivity to Babylon. Twice more he begins anew; as Holy Scriptur...
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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...
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MICAH 4:6 TO MICAH 5:1. EXILE AND RESTORATION: ISRAEL'S VICTORY OVER
THE NATIONS. The reference to the Babylonian exile (Micah 4:10) shows
that the passage is not earlier than the sixth century, Micah...
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NOW. Meanwhile: as in Micah 4:10; Micah 5:1. Referring to the then
immediately impending hostility.
MANY NATIONS. Compare Isaiah 33:3.Lamentations 2:16; Obadiah 1:11.
EYE. So some codices, with two...
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_THE HEATHENS DID NOT UNDERSTAND GOD'S PLAN -- MICAH 4:11-13:_ It is
sad when people take pleasure in the misfortune of others. However,
there were many nations that surrounded Israel that said, "We c...
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LET HER BE DEFILED— _Thou art defiled, and our eye shall behold Sion
as a spectacle;_ that is to say, of scorn....
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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?...
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Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be
defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
NOW ALSO MANY NATIONS ARE GATHERED AGAINST THEE - the subject peoples
composing Babylo...
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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...
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MICAH SPEAKS A MESSAGE FROM GOD TO ALL THE NATIONS
MICAH
_LES PAINTER_
CHAPTER 4
4:1-8 NEW JERUSALEM WILL HAVE A HIGH POSITION OVER THE NATIONS
There is a big change now in Micah’s *prophecy. He...
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LET HER BE DEFILED. — The seventy-fourth Psalm records the calamity
foreseen by the prophet: “They have cast fire into Thy sanctuary,
they have defiled (_by casting down_) the dwelling-place of Thy Na...
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וְ עַתָּ֛ה נֶאֶסְפ֥וּ עָלַ֖יִךְ
גֹּויִ֣ם רַבִּ֑ים הָ אֹמְרִ֣ים
תֶּחֱנָ֔ף וְ תַ֥חַז בְּ צִיֹּ֖ון
עֵינֵֽינוּ׃
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THE KING TO COME
Micah 4:8 - Micah 5:1
WHEN a people has to be purged of long injustice, when some high aim
of liberty or of order has to be won, it is remarkable how often the
drama of revolution pa...
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THE PROMISE OF PEACE
Micah 4:1-13
It is not improbable that Isaiah, Micah 2:1-4, and Micah quoted an
older prophecy, which in its fullness, is yet to be fulfilled. In the
millennial age Israel, in h...
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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...
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_Sion. Let us enter the sanctuary and plunder it. Cambyses was
instigated to fall upon the Jews lately returned, Ezechiel xxxviii.
11. His rapacious designs were frustrated, as those of persecutors
wi...
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The Church is and ever must be, upon earth, the envy of the carnal
world. But, Reader, what a sweet thought it is for you, for me, for
all, that when the enemies of Christ and his redeemed seem to tri...
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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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The Prophet’s object here is to give some alleviation to the
faithful lest they should succumb under their calamities; for, as we
have stated, there were most grievous evils approaching, sufficient to...
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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...
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NOW ALSO MANY NATIONS ARE GATHERED AGAINST THEE,.... Which is to be
understood, not of Sennacherib's army invading Judea, and besieging
Jerusalem, in Hezekiah's time; for that was not threshed, as the...
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Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be
defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
Ver. 11. _Now also many nations are gathered, &c._] That is, they
shall lie once gathere...
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_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,...
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ZION ESTABLISHED THROUGHOUT THE EARTH...
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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
st...
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NOW, i.e. ere long, the time is near at hand. Many nations; many for
number and great for name, mighty in power, all that were at that time
confederate with or feudatory to Sennacherib king of Assyria...
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Micah 4:11 many H7227 nations H1471 gathered H622 (H8738) say H559
(H8802) defiled H2610 (H8799) eye H5869 look H2372 (H8799) Zion H6726
many - Isaiah 5:25-30, Isaiah 8:7-8; Jeremiah 52:4;...
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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
desp...
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Micah 4:1. _But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the
mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of
the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people...
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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...
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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...
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The Lord shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies
THE MORAL REGENERATION OF THE WORLD
I. The state of mankind requires it. “Is there no king in thee? is
thy counsellor perished?” It was more...
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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
intervention and victory (Micah 5:2). The remnant both blesses a...
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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...
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EXPOSITION
MICAH 4:1
§ 4. _The prophet suddenly announces the future glory of the temple
mountain and the ideal happiness of the people_
MICAH 4:1
BUT. There is no adversative particle here; the ve...
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But in the last days (Micah 4:1)
Or in the later days. So we move on out into yet the future. This has
not yet happened, far from it, but it is going to happen. And I am
convinced that it is going to...
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Isaiah 5:25; Isaiah 8:7; Isaiah 8:8; Jeremiah 52:4; Joel 3:2;
Lamentations 2:15; Lamentations 2:16; Micah 7:10; Obadiah 1:12...
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Now — The time is at hand. Defiled — Let her be polluted with
blood, and let us enter, sack and destroy her temple and palaces. Look
— With delight on her destruction....