Micah 2:1-11

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Micah 2:1-5

Here is, I. The injustice of man contriving the evil of sin, Mic. 2:1, 2. God was coming forth against this people to destroy them, and here he shows what was the ground of his controversy with them; it is that which is often mentioned as a sin that hastens the ruin of nations and families as much as any, the sin of oppression. Let us see the steps of it. 1. They eagerly desire that which is not their own?that is the root of bitterness, the root of all evil, Mic. 2:2. They covet fields and... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Micah 2:6-11

Here are two sins charged upon the people of Israel, and judgments denounced against them for each, such judgments as exactly answer the sin?persecuting God's prophets and oppressing God's poor. I. Persecuting God's prophets, suppressing and silencing them, is a sin that provokes God as much as anything, for it not only spits in the face of his authority over us, but spurns at the bowels of his mercy to us; for his sending prophets to us is a sure and valuable token of his goodwill. Now... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 2:1

Woe to them that devise iniquity ,.... Any kind of iniquity; idolatry, or worshipping of idols, for the word is used sometimes for an idol; or the sin of uncleanness, on which the thoughts too often dwell in the night season; or coveting of neighbours' goods, and oppressing the poor; sins which are instanced in Micah 2:2 ; and every thing that is vain, foolish, and wicked, and in the issue brings trouble and distress: now a woe is denounced against such that think on such things, and... read more

John Gill

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

And they covet fields, and take them by violence ,.... The fields of their poor neighbours, which lie near them, and convenient for them; they wish they were theirs, and they contrive ways and means to get them into their possession; and if they cannot get them by fair means, if they cannot persuade them to sell them, or at their price, they will either use some crafty method to get them from them, or they will take them away by force and violence; as Ahab got Naboth's vineyard from him: ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 2:3

Therefore thus saith the Lord, behold, against this family do I devise an evil ,.... Because of those evils of covetousness, oppression, and injustice, secretly devised, and deliberately committed, the Lord, who neither slumbers nor sleeps, declares, and would have it observed, that he had devised an evil of punishment against the whole nation of Israel, the ten tribes particularly, among whom these sins greatly prevailed; even an invasion of their land by the Assyrians, and the carrying of... read more

John Gill

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

In that day shall one take up a parable against you ,.... Making use of your name, as a byword, a proverb, a taunt, and a jeer; mocking at your calamities and miseries: or, "concerning you" F3 עליכם "super vos", Pagninus, Montanus; "de vobis", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "super vobis", Cocceius. ; take up and deliver out a narrative of your troubles, in figurative and parabolical expressions; which Kimchi thinks is to be understood of a false prophet, finding his prophecies... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 2:5

Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot ,.... This confirms what was before delivered in a parabolical way, and as a lamentation; and is spoken either to the false prophet, as Kimchi; who should not be, nor have any posterity to inherit by lot the land of Israel; or to those oppressors that took away houses and fields from others, these should have no part nor lot in the land any more; or rather to the whole, people of Israel, who should no more inherit their land after... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 2:6

Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy ,.... Or "drop not" F8 אל תטיפו "ne stilletis", Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius, Burkius, Junius & Tremellius; "ne stillatote", Piscator. ; such terrible words, such menacing things; let them not flow from your lips with such profusion and abundance; cease from speaking in the name of the Lord, if we can hear nothing else but sharp reproofs, and severe judgments: or the first word respects the true prophets of the Lord, and forbids... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 2:7

O thou that art named the house of Jacob ,.... Called after that great and good man, and reckoned the people of God, and have the character of being religious persons; but, alas! have but a name, and not the thing, and are the degenerate offspring of that famous patriarch: is the Spirit of the Lord straitened ? or "shortened" F14 הקצר "abbreviatus est", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Drusius, Cocceius; "decurtatus esset", Piscator. ; the Spirit of the Lord in his prophets, is it... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 2:8

Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy ,.... Or "yesterday" F15 אתמול "heri", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Burkius. ; meaning a very little while before this prophecy, the people of Israel, those of the ten tribes, who were the people of God by profession, rose up as an enemy, not only to God and true religion, worshipping idols; but rather to their brethren, those of the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin; as they did in the times of Pekah... read more

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