Micah 2:10

"Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your resting place; because of uncleanness that destroyeth, even with a grievous destruction."

There are two possible meanings here. Ironside understood the address to be to the oppressed, instructing them not to continue in fellowship with what was unclean and unholy. He also extended the teaching to include Christians today. "To continue in fellowship with what is opposed to God's mind will result in desolation."[17] It can scarcely be denied that such an idea is in the passage.

"Perhaps here likewise the sense is that there can be no resting place in Canaan for those who have violated the terms of the covenant. Once more, Micah appears to envisage deportation as the divinely ordained destiny of these sinners against the covenant."[18]

Likewise, Keil understood this verse as a repetition of God's announcement of punishment, "in the form of a summons to go out of the land into captivity."[19]

McKeating paraphrased it, "Up and begone ... you that would defile yourselves, would commit any mischief, however cruel."[20] Scoggin, however, and others understand the primary thrust of the verse to be toward "the faithful few."[21] It appears to this writer that both meanings are surely in the passage, as Allen called it, "a double entendre."[22]