Micah 2:1-2 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 2:1-5

§ 6. The prophet justifies his threat by recounting the sins of which the grandees and guilty. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 2:1-11

Delineations of deep transgression, righteous retribution, and Divine equity. We have in these verses three pictures, drawn by a master hand, and very suggestive of practical teaching. I. A PICTURE OF DEEP TRANSGRESSION . ( Micah 2:1 , Micah 2:2 , Micah 2:8 , Micah 2:9 .) Observe delineated in it: 1 . The abuse of privilege . ( Micah 2:1 .) What a boon is night! "The season of repose; the blessed barrier betwixt day and day," when the hum and bustle, the anxiety... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 2:2

They carry out by open violence the fraud which they have devised and planned (comp. Isaiah 5:8 ; Amos 4:1 ). Covet fields. Compare the ease of Ahab and Naboth ( 1 Kings 21:1-29 .). The commandment against coveting ( Exodus 20:17 ) taught the Jews that God regarded sins of thought as well as of action. The Law forbade the alienation of landed property and the transfer of estates from tribe to tribe (Le 25:23-28; Numbers 36:7 ). A rich man might buy a poor man's estate subject to... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Micah 2:1

The prophet had declared that evil should come down on Samaria and Jerusalem for their sins. He had pronounced them sinners against God; he now speaks of their hard unlovingness toward man, as our Blessed Lord in the Gospel speaks of sins against Himself in His members, as the ground of the condemnation of the wicked. The time of warning is past. He speaks as in the person of the Judge, declaring the righteous judgments of God, pronouncing sentence on the hardened, but blessing on those who... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Micah 2:2

And they covet fields and take them by violence - (rend them away) and houses, and take them away Still, first they sin in heart, then in act. And yet, with them, to covet and to rob, to desire and to take, are the same. They were prompt, instantaneous, without a scruple, in violence. So soon as they coveted, they took. Desired, acquired! Coveted, robbed! “They saw, they coveted, they took,” had been their past history. They did violence, not to one only, but, touched with no mercy, to whole... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Micah 2:1-2

Micah 2:1-2. Wo to them that devise iniquity That design and frame mischief; and work evil upon their beds Contrive how to work it, and actually execute their plans when they rise in the morning. Because it is in the power of their hand Because they can do it; because there is none that can hinder them. They make their strength the law of justice; and do whatsoever they have a mind to do, whether right or wrong, because they have power in their hands. And they covet fields Set their... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Micah 2:1-13

Those who oppress the poor (2:1-13)To an Israelite, a person’s land was his most prized possession. It was not only his means of income, but also part of the family heritage handed down from generation to generation. But the greedy money-enders cared nothing for that. Micah pictures them lying awake at night working out schemes to seize the farmer’s land and, if possible, take the farmer and his family as slaves. They have money and power, and therefore they can do as they wish without thought... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Micah 2:1

iniquity. Hebrew. 'aven. App-44 . Not the same word as in Micah 3:10 . Note the incrimination in verses: Micah 2:1 , Micah 2:2 . See the Structure, p. 1253. work = plan. evil = wickedness. Hebrew. ra'a'. App-44 . is = exists. Hebrew. yesh. See note on Proverbs 8:21 . in the power of their hand. A Pentateuchal idiom. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 31:29 ). Compare Proverbs 3:27 . Nehemiah 5:5 . Does not occur elsewhere. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Micah 2:2

covet fields. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 6:4 .Deuteronomy 5:21; Deuteronomy 5:21 ). App-92 . they oppress, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 19:13 , where the words are the same). App-92 . man = a human being Hebrew. geber. App-14 . even. So in some codices, with four early printed editions; but many codices, with six early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, and Vulgate, omit the word "even". man. Hebrew. 'ish. App-14 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Micah 2:1

Having in the preceding chapter foretold the approaching doom of both the northern and southern kingdoms of "the house of Jacob," Micah announced the crimes of the people, especially of the nobles, for which God had determined to punish the entire nation (Micah 2:1-2). He particularly identified that punishment as their removal from the land which they mistakenly believed was "theirs," not the Lord's (Micah 2:4-5). He then identified and refuted the "false prophets" whose lies had deceived the... read more