Micah 3

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Micah 3

What the apostle says of another of the prophets is true of this, who was also his contemporary??Esaias is very bold,? Rom. 10:20. So, in this chapter, Micah is very bold in reproving and threatening the great men that were the ringleaders in sin; and he gives the reason (Mic. 3:8) why he was so bold, because he had commission and instruction from God to say what he said, and was carried out in it by a higher spirit and power than his own. Magistracy and ministry are two great ordinances of... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Micah 3:1-7

Princes and prophets, when they faithfully discharge the duty of their office, are to be highly honoured above other men; but when they betray their trust, and act contrary to it, they should hear of their faults as well as others, and shall be made to know that there is a God above them, to whom they are accountable; at his bar the prophet here, in his name, arraigns them. I. Let the princes hear their charge and their doom. The heads of Jacob, and the princes of the house of Israel, are... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Micah 3:8-12

Here, I. The prophet experiences a divine power going along with him in his work, and he makes a solemn profession and protestation of it, as that which would justify him, and bear him out, in his plain dealing with the princes and rulers. He would not, he durst not, make thus bold with the great men, but that he was carried out to do it by a prophetical impulse and impression. It was not he that said it, but God by him, and he could not but speak the word that God put into his mouth. It comes... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 3

INTRODUCTION TO MICAH 3 In this chapter the prophet reproves and threatens both princes and prophets, first separately, and then conjunctly; first the heads and princes of the people, civil magistrates, for their ignorance of justice, and hatred of good, and love of evil, and for their oppression and cruelty; and they are threatened with distress when they should cry unto the Lord, and should not be heard by him, Micah 3:1 ; next the prophets are taken to task, for their voraciousness,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 3:1

And I said, hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel ,.... This seems to be a new sermon or discourse, delivered at another time and to another people than the preceding for, as that chiefly concerns the ten tribes, this the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and was spoken to them in the times of Hezekiah, as appears from Jeremiah 26:18 ; for though Jacob and Israel generally design the ten tribes, yet here the other two, as is manifest from the above cited... read more

John Gill

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

Who hate the good, and love the evil ,.... Instead of knowing and doing what was just and right; or, directly contrary to their light and knowledge, and the duty of their office, they hated that which is good, which is agreeable to the law, nature, and will of God, and loved that which is evil, which is contrary thereunto; or they hated to do good, and loved to do evil, as the Targum; as men do who are averse to good, and prone to evil; or they hated a good man, as Aben Ezra, and loved the... read more

John Gill

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

Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skins from off them ,.... Like cannibals, flay them alive, and then eat their flesh: this signifies, as before, devouring their substance, only expressed in terms which still more set forth their savageness, inhumanity, barbarity, and cruelty. So the Targum, "who spoil the substance of my people, and their precious mammon they take from them;' and what aggravated their guilt was, that they were the Lord's people by profession and... read more

John Gill

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

Then shall they cry unto the Lord, but he will not hear them ,.... When all the above evils threatened them in the preceding chapters shall come upon them; when the enemy shall invade their hind, besiege their cities, and take them, and they, their families and substance, just ready to fall into their hands, they shall cry unto the Lord; or pray unto him, as the Targum, in the time of their distress; but he will not hear their prayer, so as to answer it according to their desire; that is, he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 3:5

Thus saith the Lord, concerning the prophets that make my people err ,.... The false prophets, as the Targum; and as the description given of them shows; who, instead of directing the people in the right way, as by their office and characters as prophets they should have done, they led them into mistakes about matters of religion and civil government, and out of the way of their duty to God and men, and exposed them to great danger and distress; and this was the more aggravating, as they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 3:6

Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision ,.... Not that those outward gifts and illuminations, and that prophetic light they had, or seemed to have should be taken away from them, and it should be quite a night with them; because these men were never sent of God, or received any message from him, or had any prophetic talents at all, and therefore could not be taken away from them, and they be benighted in this sense; though, it is true, such might be the... read more

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