Micah 2:11, Micah 2:6 ESV

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 2:11

If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie ,.... Who pretends to be a prophet, and a spiritual man, and to be under the inspiration and influence of the Spirit of God, but utters nothing but lies and falsehoods; or who is actuated by a spirit of falsehood and lying; or, as in the margin, "walks with the wind, and lies falsely" F21 הולך רוח ושקר כזב "qui ambulat cum vento et falsitate mentiatur", Piscator; "ambulantem cum vento et fasitate mendacem", Cocceius. ; is full... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 2:11

If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood - The meaning is: If a man who professes to be Divinely inspired do lie, by prophesying of plenty, etc., then such a person shall be received as a true prophet by this people. It not unfrequently happens that the Christless worldling, who has got into the priest's office for a maintenance, and who leaves the people undisturbed in their unregenerate state, is better received than the faithful pastor, who proclaims the justice of the Lord, and the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 2:11

Verse 11 The Prophet points out here another vice by which the people were infected — that they wished to be soothed with flatteries: for all the ungodly think that they are in a manner exempt from God’s judgment, when they hear no reproof; yea they think themselves happy, when they get flatterers, who are indulgent to their vices. This is now the disease which the Prophet discovers as prevailing among the people. Jerome sought out a meaning quite different here, as in the former verses; but I... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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 2:6-11

§ 7. The threat announced in Micah 2:3 is further vindicated and applied to individual sinners, with a glance at the false prophets who taught the people to love lies. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 2:11

Such prophets as speak unwelcome truths are not popular with the grandees; they like only these who pander to their vices and prophesy lies. This was their crowning sin. If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie. "The spirit and falsehood" may be a hendiadys for "a spirit of falsehood," or "a lying spirit," as 1 Kings 22:22 (comp. Ezekiel 13:2 , Ezekiel 13:3 , Ezekiel 13:17 ). But it is better to render, If a man walking after ( conversant with ) the wind and falsehood... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 2:11

Israel's popular preacher. "If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people" Henderson's translation of this verse is worth quoting: "If any one conservant with mind and falsehood lie, saying, I will prophesy to thee of wine and strong drink, even he shall be the prophet of this people." This is Micah's idea as to the kind of prophet, or, as we should say, pulpit, the men of... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Micah 2:11

If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood - Literally, “in spirit” (not My Spirit) “and falsehood,” that is, in a lying spirit; such as they, whose woe Ezekiel pronounces Ezekiel 13:3, “Woe unto the foolish prophets who walk after their own spirit and what they have not seen Ezekiel 13:2, Ezekiel 13:17; prophets out of their own hearts, who prophesied a vision of falsehood, and a destruction and nothingness; prophesied falsehood; yea, prophets of the deceit of their hearts.” These, like the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Micah 2:11

Micah 2:11. If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood If a man falsely pretending to have the spirit of prophecy, do lie Speak things very false, and utter pretended predictions of events that shall never take place. Saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and strong drink I will discourse to you of sensual enjoyments: or, I will give you assurance of peace, prosperity, and plenty. You shall live long, eat, drink, and be merry. He shall even be the prophet of this people Such as... read more

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 2:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 2:11

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 2:11

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 2:1-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 2:6-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 2:11

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 2:11

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Micah 2:11

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Micah 2:11

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