Micah 4:1-8

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Micah 4:1-7

It is a very comfortable but with which this chapter begins, and very reviving to those who lay the interests of God's church near their heart and are concerned for the welfare of it. When we sometimes see the corruptions of the church, especially of church-rulers, princes, priests, and prophets, seeking their own things and not the things of God, and when we soon after see the desolations of the church, Zion for their sakes ploughed as a field, we are ready to fear that it will one day perish... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Micah 4:8-13

These verses relate to Zion and Jerusalem, here called the tower of the flock or the tower of Edor; we read of such a place (Gen. 35:21) near Bethlehem; and some conjecture it is the same place where the shepherds were keeping their flocks when the angels brought them tidings of the birth of Christ, and some think Bethlehem itself is here spoken of, as Mic. 5:2. Some think it is a tower at that gate of Jerusalem which is called the sheep-gate (Neh. 3:32), and conjecture that through that gate... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 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 ,.... It appears by the adversative but, with which these words are introduced, that they have a dependence upon and a connection with the last of the preceding chapter; signifying, that though "the mountain of the house", on which the temple stood, should become desolate, yet "the mountain of the house of the Lord", which is not literally the same, but... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 4:2

And many nations shall come, and say, come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob ,.... In Isaiah 2:3 ; it is, "many people", &c.; the sense is the same; See Gill on Isa 2:3; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths ; the teacher is the King Messiah, as Kimchi observes; the great Prophet of his people, the teacher sent from God; and will in the last days teach men by his Spirit and word, in a very plentiful manner,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 4:3

And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off ,.... That are in the most distant parts of the world; not only the isles afar off, but the remotest parts of the continent, the American nations found out since. In Isaiah 2:4 , it is, "and he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people"; that is, the King Messiah, as Aben Ezra, Kimchi, and Ben Melech. Some render it, "it shall judge", &c.; and interpret it either of the Church, the mountain of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 4:4

But they shall sit every man under his vine, and under his fig tree ,.... A proverbial phrase, expressive of the greatest tranquillity, security, and enjoyment of property; see 1 Kings 4:25 ; when persons need not keep within their walled towns and cities, and lack themselves up in their houses, but may sit down in their gardens, fields, and vineyards, and enjoy the fruit thereof; as the Targum interprets it, "under the fruit of his vine, and under, the fruit of his fig tree.' It was... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 4:5

For all people will walk everyone in the name of his god ,.... Till those times come before described; when many nations and people shall flock to the church, and there shall be such general peace and tranquillity as here promised; till then the nations of the earth shall retain their former religion, and the profession of it, with constancy, till they are otherwise instructed, as Aben Ezra; or till the Messiah shall turn them into the right way, as Kimchi; till that time comes, the Pagans... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 4:6

In that day, saith the Lord, will I assemble her that halteth ,.... The Jews or Israelites so described; not from the halting of Jacob their father, as Abarbinel thinks; nor because of their halting between two opinions, worshipping both the true God and idols, as in the times of Elijah; for this will not suit with the Jews in their present state; but because they were like lame and maimed sheep, to which the allusion is; or because they were guilty of sins, which are sometimes expressed by... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 4:7

And I will make her that halted a remnant ,.... That is, make a reserve of her, and not utterly cut her off for her halting or sinning; that there may be a seed, a posterity descending from her, that shall serve the Lord, and appear to be a remnant according to the election of grace; which will be the persons called and gathered in the latter day: and her that was cast afar off a strong nation ; Kimchi thinks this refers to the ten tribes that were carried far off into Media and other... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 4:8

And thou, O tower of the flock ,.... The words "Migdal Eder" are left by some untranslated, and think that place to be intended so called, which was near to Bethlehem, Genesis 35:19 ; and perhaps is the same which Jerom F20 De locis Hebr. fol. 89. E. calls the tower of Ader, about a mile from Bethlehem: this is supposed to be the place where the shepherds were watching over their flocks at the time of Christ's birth, the tidings of which were first brought to them here; and the... read more

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