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Micah 2:3-13

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3 Therefore thus says the LORD, "Behold, I am 1planning against this 2family a calamity From which you 3cannot remove your necks; And you will not walk 4haughtily, For it will be an 5evil time.
4 "On that day they will 6take up against you a taunt And 7utter a bitter lamentation and say, 'We are completely 8destroyed! He exchanges the portion of my people; How He removes it from me! To the apostate He 9apportions our fields.'
5 "Therefore you will have no one 10stretching a measuring line For you by lot in the assembly of the LORD.
6 '11Do not speak out,' so they speak out. But if they do 12not speak out concerning these things, 13Reproaches will not be turned back.
7 "Is it being said, O house of Jacob: 'Is the Spirit of the LORD 14impatient? Are these His doings?' Do not My words 15do good To the one 16walking uprightly?
8 "Recently My people have arisen as an 17enemy - You 18strip the robe * off the garment From 19unsuspecting passers-by, From those returned from war.
9 "The women of My people you 20evict, Each one from her pleasant house. From her children you take My 21splendor forever.
10 "Arise and go, For this is no place 22of rest Because of the 23uncleanness that brings on destruction, A painful destruction.
11 "If a man walking after wind and 24falsehood Had told lies and said, 'I will speak out to you concerning 25wine and liquor,' He would be spokesman to 26this people.
12 "I will surely 27assemble all of you, Jacob, I will surely gather the 28remnant of Israel. I will put them together like sheep in the fold; Like a flock in the midst of its pasture They will be noisy with men.
13 "The breaker goes up before them; They break out, pass through the gate and go out by it. So their king goes on before them, And the LORD at their head."
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Micah 2:3-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO MICAH 2

In this chapter complaint is made of the sins of the people of Israel, and they are threatened with punishment for them. The sins they are charged with are covetousness, oppression, and injustice, which were premeditated, and done deliberately, Mic 2:1,2; therefore the Lord devised evil against them, they should not escape; and which would bring down their pride, and cause them to take up a lamentation, because they should not enjoy the portion of land that belonged to them, Mic 2:3-5; they are further charged with opposing the prophets of the Lord, the folly and wickedness of which is exposed, Mic 2:6,7; and with great inhumanity and barbarity, even to women and children, Mic 2:8,9; and therefore are ordered to expect and prepare for a removal out of their land, Mic 2:10; and the rather, since they gave encouragement and heed to false prophets, and delighted in them, Mic 2:11; and the chapter is concluded with words of comfort to the remnant among them, and with precious promises of the Messiah, and the blessings of grace by him, Mic 2:12,13.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 28

  • 1. Deuteronomy 28:48; Jeremiah 18:11
  • 2. Jeremiah 8:3; Amos 3:1, 2
  • 3. Lamentations 1:14; Lamentations 5:5
  • 4. Isaiah 2:11, 12
  • 5. Amos 5:13
  • 6. Habakkuk 2:6
  • 7. Jer 9:10, 17-21; Micah 1:8
  • 8. Isaiah 6:11; Isaiah 24:3; Jeremiah 4:13
  • 9. Jeremiah 6:12; Jeremiah 8:10
  • 10. Num 34:13, 16-29; Deuteronomy 32:8; Joshua 18:4, 10
  • 11. Isaiah 30:10; Amos 2:12; Amos 7:16
  • 12. Isaiah 29:10; Micah 3:6
  • 13. Micah 6:16
  • 14. Isaiah 50:2; Isaiah 59:1
  • 15. Ps 119:65, 68, 116; Jeremiah 15:16
  • 16. Psalms 15:2; Psalms 84:11
  • 17. Jeremiah 12:8
  • 18. Micah 3:2, 3; Micah 7:2, 3
  • 19. Psalms 120:6, 7
  • 20. Jeremiah 10:20
  • 21. Ezekiel 39:21; Habakkuk 2:14
  • 22. Deuteronomy 12:9
  • 23. Psalms 106:38
  • 24. Jeremiah 5:31
  • 25. Isaiah 28:7
  • 26. Isaiah 30:10, 11
  • 27. Micah 4:6, 7
  • 28. Micah 5:7, 8; Micah 7:18

Footnotes 11

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