Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Micah 1:15
An heir — The Assyrian, who in the right of conquest shall possess thee. Mareshah — A town of the Philistines. Adullam — Perhaps this city was considerable enough at that time, to be the glory of Israel.
An heir — The Assyrian, who in the right of conquest shall possess thee. Mareshah — A town of the Philistines. Adullam — Perhaps this city was considerable enough at that time, to be the glory of Israel.
Verse Micah 1:15. _YET WILL I BRING AN HEIR UNTO THEE, O - MARESHAH_] Here is another instance, הירש _haigeresh, to bring an heir_, and מרשה _mareshah, the city_, the name of which signifies _heirship...
YET WILL I BRING AN HEIR - (the heir, him whom God had appointed to be the heir, Sennacherib) unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah Mareshah, (as the original form of its name denotes, lay on the summit...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATION THE FIRST PROPHETIC MESSAGE CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The introduction (Micah 1:1) _ 2. Judgment announced (Micah 1:2) 3. The destruction of Samaria (Micah 1:6) 4. The lamentation o...
THE DIRGE ON ISRAEL'S DOWNFALL. This is a difficult and corrupt passage, playing on the names of towns and villages which are chosen for their assonances or their ominous suggestions, in a way impossi...
AN HEIR... MARESHAH. Hebrew the possessor (_hayyoresh)_... O Possession (_Mareshah)_. The possessor whom Jehovah would bring was Assyria. HE SHALL COME, &C. The glory: i.e. the nobility (Isaiah 5:13)...
_Yet will I bring_, &c. Rather, MOREOVER UNTO THEE WILL I BRING HIM THAT SHALL POSSESS THEE (viz. Sargon and his Assyrians). -Mareshah" was near Achzib (Joshua 15:44). There is an allusion to its poss...
_GOD'S NATURE DEMANDS ANGER AGAINST SIN -- MICAH 1:13-16:_ God said, "Get the war chariots ready, you people of Lachish. You led Jerusalem into sin, just as Israel did." Lachish was a strong city abou...
YET WILL I BRING AN HEIR UNTO THEE— _Till I shall send unto thee that heir, who inhabiteth Mareshah; till the glory of Israel shall come even to Adullam:_ that is to say, "Till I shall send those citi...
Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel. YET WILL I BRING AN HEIR UNTO THEE - rather, 'the heir.' As thou art now occupied by po...
1:15 heir, (m-8) Or, 'the possessor.' Mareshah; (n-12) Possession, inheritance. Adullam. (o-21) Or 'Even unto Adullam (meaning 'retreat') shall he come, -- the glory of Israel.'...
MARESHAH] which may mean possession. 'I will bring to the possession a new possessor,' i.e. the king of Assyria. HE SHALL COME, etc.] read, 'the glory of Israel shall come even unto Adullam.' David, t...
JUDGMENT ON SAMARIA AND JUDAH Sargon destroyed Samaria, the capital of North Israel, 722 or 721. Micah, about 720 b.c., declaring (Micah 1:6) that Samaria's fall has been due to its sin, announces a l...
‘People in Mareshah’. The *Hebrew words here sound like ‘someone who takes possession’. It means the person that wins a battle. The result will be that only a few people will live. It was like that ea...
MICAH SPEAKS A MESSAGE FROM GOD TO ALL THE NATIONS MICAH _LES PAINTER_ ABOUT THE BOOK OF MICAH ‘_People, the *LORD told you what goodness is. This is what the *LORD wants you to do. Be fair to ot...
YET WILL I BRING AN HEIR. — Rather, _the possessor,_ one who shall take it by force — _i.e.,_ Sennacherib. MARESHAH was a city in the plain of Judah, near the prophet’s native place, Moresheth-gath....
עֹ֗ד הַ יֹּרֵשׁ֙ אָ֣בִי לָ֔ךְ יֹושֶׁ֖בֶת מָֽר
MICAH THE MORASTHITE Micah 1:1 SOME time in the reign of Hezekiah, when the kingdom of Judah was still inviolate, but shivering to the shock of the fall of Samaria, and probably while Sargon the dest...
GOD'S WITNESS AGAINST HIS CHOSEN Micah 1:1-16 Micah was contemporary with Isaiah and Hosea. Jeremiah quotes from him. Compare Micah 3:12 and Jeremiah 26:18. In Micah 1:1-4 the prophet _summons the n...
The first message of Micah consists of a summons, a proclamation of Jehovah, and a prophetic message based on the proclamation. This division ends with an account of the intenuption of the false proph...
Yet will I bring an (q) heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam (r) the glory of Israel. (q) He prophesies against his own city: and because it signified a heritage, he s...
Heir. Maresa (which was the name of a city of Juda) signifies inheritance: but here God by his prophet tells the Jews, that he will bring them an heir to take possession of their inheritance: and that...
I do not trespass on the Reader with observations on what is here said; it is sufficient to remark, that the Prophet is speaking of the low estate of the Church, and he calls in the neighboring nation...
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...
The Prophet here threatens his own birth place, as he had done other cities; for, as we have stated, he sprung from this city. He does not now spare his own kindred: for as God is no respecter of pers...
The Lord speaks in this book from His temple, and addresses all the peoples-the whole earth. That is to say, He takes His place upon His earthly throne to judge the whole earth, in testimony against a...
YET WILL I BRING AN HEIR UNTO THEE, O INHABITANT OF MARESHAH,.... Another city in the tribe of Judah, mentioned with Achzib in Joshua 15:44; and by many thought to be the birth place of this prophet;...
Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel. Ver. 15. _Yet will I bring an heir unto thee_] Or, a possessor, who shall lay claim to th...
_O thou inhabitant of Lachish_ This was a strong fortress in the tribe of Judah: see Joshua 15:39. _Bind the chariot to the swift beast_ In order to flee from the approaching enemy. Lachish was one of...
Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah (town of inheritance), for Israel had been the heir obtaining it from the Canaanites, and the enemy would now be the heir receiving it from...
Lamentation Over Judah's Chastisement...
HE SHALL COME UNTO ADULLAM, THE GLORY OF ISRAEL: Or, the glory of Israel shall come etc....
8-16 The prophet laments that Israel's case is desperate; but declare it not in Gath. Gratify not those that make merry with the sins or with the sorrows of God's Israel. Roll thyself in the dust, as...
OLBHeb; YET WILL I BRING; the Lord will cause the Assyrian to rise up and prosper in his wars, to the subduing and possessing of the cities of Israel and the Philistines. AN HEIR; the Assyrian, who in...
Micah 1:15 bring H935 (H8686) heir H3423 (H8802) inhabitant H3427 (H8802) Mareshah H4762 glory H3519 Israel...
A LAMENT FOR THE CITIES OF JUDAH (MICAH 1:10). These cities lay in the path of Sennacherib as he advanced on Jerusalem after defeating the Egyptian army, and subjugating Philistia, and they illuminat...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's case against Israel. Impending judgment. CHARACTERS: God, Micah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah. CONCLUSION: There comes a time when men who have persisted in sin must face ruin without...
Micah 1:1. _Micah the Morasthite,_ alluding to a village in the tribe of Judah, near the city of Eleuthera, which distinguishes him from the prophet Micaiah, who foretold the defeat of Ahab. 1 Kings 2...
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 1:10 The names of the towns and the words describing the disasters sound alike. Micah uses wordplay to reveal the various disasters Judah will face when its towns are captured by t...
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 1:15 The Hebrew for CONQUEROR sounds like MARESHAH and is often used to describe Israel’s taking of Canaan. Those who formerly conquered the Canaanites will now themselves be conqu...
CRITICAL NOTES. MICAH 1:10.] The Prophet thinks now of the malicious joy of heathen neighbours. Ten places are mentioned in Micah 1:10 to depict what would happen in them. In most cases the things sai...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1:1-2:13 Part I. THREATENINGS AND JUDGMENTS ON ISRAEL AND JUDAH, WITH PREDICTION OF EVENTUAL DELIVERANCE. MICAH 1:1 The...
Shall we turn now to the book of Micah. As is the very typical opening of most of the books of the prophets, The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and He...
1 Samuel 22:1; 2 Chronicles 11:7; Isaiah 10:3; Isaiah 10:5; Isaiah 10:6