The women of My people, the unprotected widows, have ye cast out from their pleasant houses, the houses of their delight, to which they were attached by the memory of their wedded love; from their children have ye taken away My glory, the ornament or gift which He has given them, forever, namely, by depriving them of their dress and of their rightful property. Cf Exodus 22:25.
Verse 9. _THE WOMEN OF MY PEOPLE_] Ye are the cause of the women and their children being carried into captivity-separated from their pleasant habitations, and from my temple and ordinances-and from...
THE WOMEN OF MY PEOPLE HAVE YE CAST OUT FROM THEIR PLEASANT HOUSES - (literally, from her pleasant house,) each from her home. These were probably the widows of those whom they had stripped. Since the...
CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The guilt and punishment of Israel (Micah 2:1) _ 2. The future restoration (Micah 2:12) Micah 2:1. In the first two verses the special sins of Israel are mentioned, the same as in Amo...
SOCIAL INJUSTICE AND ITS PENALTY. The prophet denounces those for whom might is right (Psalms 36:4; and work evil seems a thoughtless scribal addition), who acquire property by illegal or inequitable...
FOR EVER: i.e. not to be restored for the rest of their lives....
_A REBUKE FOR SIN -- MICAH 2:6-11:_ The people did not like to hear God's prophet giving such unpleasant predictions. They said to the man of God, "Do not preach, say the prophesying false prophets; o...
FROM THEIR CHILDREN, &C.— "Because, when ye plunder their houses, ye take away their children, and sell them to strangers and idolaters; and they are no longer esteemed my children, because they becom...
THE PROPHET ANSWERS HIS CRITICS. Micah 2:7(b)-11 RV. Do not _my_ words do good to him that walketh uprightly? But of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye strip the robe from off the garment from...
The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever. THE WOMEN OF MY PEOPLE HAVE YE CAST OUT FROM THEIR PLEASANT HOUSES - i...
THE SINS THAT BRING RUIN Micah 2:3, as dealing with the same subject, should be read together. Micah now enumerates the sins which must bring punishment on Judah. He inveighs bitterly against the rap...
MY GLORY] i.e. their inheritance in the holy land. The prophet implies that women and children are being sold into foreign captivity....
The rulers are thieves. They are as cruel as enemies. God accuses the rulers. Micah mentions 3 things of which the rulers are guilty: • They steal the fine clothing from people’s backs. Fine clothing...
MICAH SPEAKS A MESSAGE FROM GOD TO ALL THE NATIONS MICAH _LES PAINTER_ CHAPTER 2 2:1-11 EVIL LEADERS AND FALSE *PROPHETS WILL SUFFER v1 Trouble will come to people that plot evil things. Those...
THE WOMEN OF MY PEOPLE. — They spared not even the widows and fatherless, the objects of God’s tender care....
נְשֵׁ֤י עַמִּי֙ תְּגָ֣רְשׁ֔וּן מִ בֵּ֖ית תַּֽעֲנֻגֶ֑יהָ...
THE PROPHET OF THE POOR Micah 2:1; Micah 3:1 WE have proved Micah's love for his countryside in the effusion of his heart upon her villages with a grief for their danger greater than his grief for Je...
THE HARVEST OF GREED AND INJUSTICE Micah 2:1-13 Micah 1:1-16 dealt with sins against the _first_ table of the law; this deals with those against the _second_. Evil must sooner or later befall those w...
Following this the prophet states the cause of the imminent judgment. The sin consists in devising evil at night and practicing it in the morning, and the abuse of authority. Covetousness, expressing...
The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away (k) my glory for ever. (k) That is, their substance and living, which is God's blessing, and...
_Cast out, &c. Either by depriving them of their houses; or, by your crimes, giving occasion to their being carried away captives, and their children, by that means, never learning to praise the Lord....
Do not forget, Reader, nor overlook the sweet feature of grace here appearing. Though unworthy, degenerate, and fallen, still Jacob is reminded of his name, and called upon to recollect, that Him with...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. The prophecy of Micah, like all the rest, has its own distinctive properties, though falling into the general current of testimony to Israel, and so far with...
He proceeds with the same subject, that they refrained from no acts of injustice. It was indeed a proof of extreme barbarity not to spare women and children, for they are both weak and helpless. Their...
In chapter 2 the prophet points out the moral causes of the judgment of God-violence and shameless oppression. They formed plans of violence to gratify their covetousness, and Jehovah formed also plan...
THE WOMEN OF MY PEOPLE HAVE YE CAST OUT FROM THEIR PLEASANT HOUSES,.... Not content to slay their husbands, they took their wives or widows captive, dispossessed them of their habitations, where they...
The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever. Ver. 9. _The women of my people_] Or, the wives; once wives, but now wido...
_Of late my people is risen up as an enemy_ AGAINST ME is to be here understood, namely, against God; for this is still spoken in the person of God. The sense is more evident in the Hebrew than in our...
WOMEN: Or, wives...
6-11 Since they say, "Prophesy not," God will take them at their word, and their sin shall be their punishment. Let the physician no longer attend the patient that will not be healed. Those are enemi...
THE WOMEN; the poor disconsolate widows, whose husbands you had first slain with the sword of war, or unjustly condemned to death; or else the wives of husbands whom you had oppressed, and by perverte...
Micah 2:9 women H802 people H5971 out H1644 (H8762) pleasant H8588 houses H1004 children H5768 away H3947 ...
THE SINS WHICH HAVE BROUGHT JUDAH'S CALAMITY ON IT (MICAH 2:1). These prophecies would have been spoken well before the scenes previously depicted, which from the point of view of this chapter are st...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's case against Israel, continued. Future deliverance of a remnant. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit. CONCLUSION: Sinners cannot expect to rest in a land which they have polluted by the...
Micah 2:1. _Woe to them that devise iniquity they covet fields, and take them by violence._ The jubilee was the happiest law that ever favoured a nation; but the rabbins confess that before the captiv...
_My people is risen up as an enemy _ SIN AN ANTAGONIST This chapter refers to the character and doings of Israel during the last nine years of Ahaz. A very dark period in Israelitish history was thi...
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 2:8 These acts are similar to the abuses detailed in vv. Micah 2:1. MY PEOPLE... AN ENEMY. The accusation of hostility is supported by three examples of enemy-
CRITICAL NOTES.] MICAH 2:8. LATE] Lit. yesterday = not long since; or again, recently, the people stood up, took an hostile attitude. PULL OFF] Not content with the outer garment, they rob passers-by...
EXPOSITION MICAH 2:1 § 6. _The prophet justifies his threat by recounting the sins of which the grandees and guilty._ MICAH 2:1 The prophet, himself one of the people, first inveighs against the si...
Now God is giving here His continued indictment against Israel and He said, Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it ha...
1 Samuel 26:19; 2 Corinthians 3:18; 2 Corinthians 4:6; Ezekiel 39:21;...
The women — The widows. Of my people — Of Israelites, not strangers, that were by peculiar provision from God's law, to be tenderly dealt with, Exodus 22:22. Cast out — You have turned out of their ol...