Michea 1:1

1 LA parola del Signore, che fu indirizzata a Michea Morastita, a’ dì di Giotam, di Achaz, e di Ezechia, re di Giuda, la quale gli fu rivelata in visione, contro a Samaria, e contro a Gerusalemme.

Michea 1:1 Meaning and Commentary

Micah 1:1

The word of the Lord that came to Micah the Morasthite
So called, either from Mareshah, mentioned ( Micah 1:15 ) ; and was a city in the tribe of Judah, ( Joshua 15:44 ) ; as the Targum, Jarchi, Kimchi, and Zacutus ^F9; or rather from Moresheth, from which Moreshethgath, ( Micah 1:14 ) ; is distinguished; which Jerom ^F11 says was in his time a small village in the land of Palestine, near Eleutheropolis. Some think these two cities to be one and the same; but they appear to be different from the account of Jerom ^F12 elsewhere. The Arabic version reads it, Micah the son of Morathi; so Cyril, in his commentary on this place, mentions it as the sense of some, that Morathi was the father of the prophet; which can by no means be assented to: in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah;
by which it appears that he was contemporary with Isaiah, Hoses, and Amos, though they began to prophesy somewhat sooner than he, even in the days of Uzziah; very probably he conversed with these prophets, especially Isaiah, with whom he agrees in many things; his style is like his, and sometimes uses the same phrases: he, being of the tribe of Judah, only mentions the kings of that nation most known to him; though he prophesied against Israel, and in the days of Zachariah, Shallum, Menahem, Pekahiah, Pekah, and Hoshea: which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem;
in the vision of prophecy; Samaria was the metropolis of the ten tribes of Israel, and is put for them all; as Jerusalem was of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and is put for them Samaria is mentioned first, because it was the head of the greatest body of people; and as it was the first in transgression, it was the first in punishment.

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 Juchashin, fol. 12. 1.
F11 Prolog. in Mic.
F12 Epitaph. Paulae, ut supra. (tom. 1. operum, fol. 60. A. B.)

Michea 1:1 In-Context

1 LA parola del Signore, che fu indirizzata a Michea Morastita, a’ dì di Giotam, di Achaz, e di Ezechia, re di Giuda, la quale gli fu rivelata in visione, contro a Samaria, e contro a Gerusalemme.

2 O POPOLI tutti, ascoltate; sii attenta, o terra, con tutto ciò ch’è in te; e il Signore Iddio sarà testimonio contro a voi; il Signore, dico, dal Tempio della sua santità.

3 Perciocchè, ecco, il Signore esce del suo luogo, e scenderà, e camminerà sopra gli alti luoghi della terra.

4 E i monti si struggeranno sotto lui, e le valli si schianteranno; come la cera si strugge al fuoco, come le acque si spandono per una pendice.

5 Tutto questo avverrà per lo misfatto di Giacobbe, e per li peccati della casa d’Israele. Quale è il misfatto di Giacobbe? non è egli Samaria? E quali sono gli alti luoghi di Giuda? non sono eglino Gerusalemme?