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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Micah 4:12

they know not. Compare Isaiah 55:8 . Jeremiah 29:11 . thoughts = purposes, or plans: i.e. for Israel in purging him of idolatry by his tribulation. counsel: i.e. with regard to themselves. The reason follows. for: or, that. floor = threshing-floor. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Micah 4:12

"But they know not the thoughts of Jehovah, neither understand they his counsel; for he hath gathered them as sheaves to the threshing-floor.""They know not the thoughts of Jehovah ..." The hatred of the world for God's truth, their desire to behold the defilement of all that is true and beautiful (Micah 4:11), and their unanimous consent to be "gathered" together in opposing and oppressing God's people - all this will result from the refusal of humanity to know the thoughts of the Lord,... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Micah 4:12

12. thoughts of the Lord—Their unsearchable wisdom, overruling seeming disaster to the final good of His people, is the very ground on which the restoration of Israel hereafter (of which the restoration from Babylon is a type) is based in Isaiah 55:8; compare with Micah 4:3; Micah 4:12; Micah 4:13, which prove that Israel, not merely the Christian Church, is the ultimate subject of the prophecy; also in Micah 4:13- :. God's counsel is to discipline His people for a time with the foe as a... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Micah 4:11-12

In Micah’s day many nations desired to see Israel polluted and destroyed. However, they did not understand God’s purposes for Israel or for themselves. They failed to see that He would gather the nations for judgment, as a farmer gathers sheaves of grain on a threshing floor in preparation for beating them out. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 4:1-13

Zion the Spiritual Centre of the Earth1-10. Here purified Israel is the light to the nations, which joyously acknowledge the supremacy of its God. The Temple shall be glorified, because known as the source of a help which all men need. When men grow eager for this, their wars shall cease (Micah 4:1-4). Because Israel is holding its faith as a trust for all men, Micah bids his people hold it more resolutely (Micah 4:5). Though their very national existence is threatened (Micah 4:9-10), let them... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 4:1-15

Bright Visions of the FutureMicah’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’s greatness. The people have forgotten this and have tried to emulate the other nations in wealth and pride and armed strength. Such a contest was hopeless, and God will prove its hopelessness by bringing ruin on Jerusalem, where these pomps were gathered. But, when the chastisement has done its... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Micah 4:12

(12) They know not the thoughts of the Lord.—As a commentary upon this passage, we may compare the message of God with reference to the haughty thoughts of Sennacherib. Then the Lord declared that the Assyrian king was but His instrument in all he had done; so that when he presumed to arrogate to himself the glory of his victories, the Lord revoked his commission: “I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou carnest.” And so it... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Micah 4:1-13

The Golden Age Micah 4:1 The Prophet lifts his eyes away to the latter days to gain refreshment in his present toil. Without the anticipation of a golden age he would lose his buoyancy, and the spirit of endeavour would go out of his work. What are the characteristics of the golden age to which the Prophet was looking with hungry and aspiring spirit? I. In the golden age emphasis is to be given to the spiritual. In the latter days the spiritual is to have emphasis above pleasure, money,... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Micah 4:8-13

THE KING TO COMEMicah 4:8 - Micah 5:1-15WHEN 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 passes through three acts. There is first the period of criticism and of vision, in which men feel discontent, dream of new things, and put their hopes into systems: it seems then as if-the future were to come of itself. But often a catastrophe, relevant or irrelevant, ensues: the visions pale before... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Micah 4:1-13

CHAPTER 4 1. The future of glory (Micah 4:1-5 ) 2. The restoration and the final victory (Micah 4:6-13 ) Micah 4:1-5 . The last verse predicted the long desolation and ruin of Zion. This is followed at once by a great prophecy of the future of glory in store for Zion. Isaiah also uttered this great prediction. Not that Micah copied Isaiah, nor Isaiah Micah, but the same Spirit gave to the men the same prophecy. It concerns the latter days, which means the coming of Messiah’s kingdom on... read more

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Micah 4:12

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Micah 4:12

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Micah 4:12

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Micah 4:11-12

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 4:1-13

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 4:1-15

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Micah 4:12

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Micah 4:1-13

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Micah 4:8-13

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Micah 4:1-13

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