Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Micah 1:9
Her wound — The wounds of Samaria, her own sins, and God's just displeasure. It is come — The contagion of her sins, and the indignation of God against it, have reached to Judah also, yea, to Jerusalem.
Her wound — The wounds of Samaria, her own sins, and God's just displeasure. It is come — The contagion of her sins, and the indignation of God against it, have reached to Judah also, yea, to Jerusalem.
Verse 9. _HER WOUND_ IS _INCURABLE_] Nothing shall prevent their utter ruin, for they have filled up the measure of their iniquity. _HE IS COME _- EVEN _TO JERUSALEM._] The desolation and captivity o...
FOR HER - Samaria’s WOUND - o, (literally, her wounds, or strokes, (the word is used especially of those inflicted by God, (Leviticus 26:21; Numbers 11:33;...
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 JUDGMENT OF ISRAEL. The nations of the earth are summoned to take warning from the Divine judgment to be executed on Israel. Yahweh comes forth from heaven (His holy temple; _cf._ Habakkuk 2:20; I...
WOUND. stroke. Hebrew. _makkah_ (feminine) IT. Aramaean and Syriac read "she". Referring to her stroke, which is feminine. HE. he, referring to some unnamed foe. Aram, and Syriac read "she", referri...
_her wound_ Lit. HER STRIPES. Samaria's trouble is a chastisement (comp. Isaiah 1:3-4), but it is not Samaria's trouble only. It has reached Jerusalem; hence the -incurableness" of the -wound," for Je...
_MICAH WEPT OVER GOD'S JUDGMENT -- MICAH 1:8-12_ : Samaria's wickedness had spread even to Jerusalem. It was so heart breaking to Micah that he said, "I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and vi...
FOR HER WOUND IS INCURABLE— "The desolation of the ten tribes cannot be prevented, because they persist in their impieties; therefore no relief can be applied: it must terminate in their destruction....
SAMARIA TO BE DESTROYED. Micah 1:6-11 RV. Therefore I will make Samaria as a heap of the field, and as places for planting vineyards; and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I wil...
For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem. FOR HER WOUND IS INCURABLE - her case, politically and morally, is desperate (). The...
HE IS COME] RV 'it' (i.e. the wound) 'reacheth.' The GATE was the seat of the old men, the scene of justice. Jerusalem is called the gate of the people, as the centre of its wisdom and justice. 10-16....
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...
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...
Micah weeps as he speaks God’s judgement. He feels as God feels. Micah has seen what will happen to Samaria. He knows that the situation is hopeless. There is no remedy for Samaria’s problems. God’s j...
HER WOUND IS INCURABLE. — The state of Samaria is incurable: she is doomed: the destroyer is approaching — nay, he comes near, even to Jerusalem. The outlying towns are described as shuddering at the...
כִּ֥י אֲנוּשָׁ֖ה מַכֹּותֶ֑יהָ כִּי ־בָ֨אָה֙ עַד...
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...
CHAPTER I. Gate. That is, the destruction of Samaria shall be followed by the invasion of my people of Juda, and the Assyrian shall come and lay all waste even to the confines of Jerusalem. (Challone...
There is a great sameness between the writings of Isaiah and Micah; their vision opens much alike, only Micah's vision is concerning Samaria and Jerusalem; and Isaiah's of Judah and Jerusalem. Samaria...
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 afterwards subjoins, that the wounds vault be grievous; but he speaks as of what was present, _Grievous, _he says, _are the wounds _Grievous means properly full of grief; others render it desperate...
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...
FOR HER WOUND [IS] INCURABLE,.... Or her "stroke [is] desperate" e. The ruin of Samaria, and the ten tribes, was inevitable; the decree being gone forth, and they hardened in their sins, and continuin...
For her wound [is] incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, [even] to Jerusalem. Ver. 9. _For her wound is incurable_] Or, she is grievously sick of her wounds; or...
_Therefore I will wail and howl_ I will mourn and lament. _I will go stripped and naked_ That is, without an upper garment; or with garments rent and torn. This would fitly denote the naked condition...
For her wound is incurable, deadly her strokes, FOR IT IS COME UNTO JUDAH, the territory which harbored the Sanctuary of the Lord being included in the general ruin; HE IS COME UNTO THE GATE OF MY PEO...
Lamentation Over Judah's Chastisement...
HER WOUND IS INCURABLE: Or, she is greviously sick of her wounds...
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...
HER WOUND IS INCURABLE; the wounds of Samaria and the ten tribes; her own sins, God's just displeasure, and the enemy's rage have deeply wounded her, she is senseless, impenitent, and furious against...
Micah 1:9 wounds H4347 incurable H605 (H8803) come H935 (H8804) Judah H3063 come H5060 (H8804) gate...
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...
_For her wound is incurable _ MORAL INCURABLENESS Samaria and Jerusalem were, in a material and political sense, in a desperate and hopeless condition. I. Moral incurableness is a condition into wh...
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 1:2 The Announcement of Judgment on Israel and Judah. The first major section describes (1) God’s punishment of Samaria and Judah (Micah 1:2); (2) abuses and abuse
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 1:9 IT HAS REACHED probably refers to the yet-to-be-identified “disaster” (v. Micah 1:12)....
CRITICAL NOTES. MICAH 1:3. TREAD upon the proud and idolatrous (high places) people, as Ruler over all the earth. MICAH 1:4.] Imagery from storms and earthquakes, to describe the terrors of God’s jud...
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...
2 Chronicles 32:1; 2 Kings 18:9; Isaiah 1:5; Isaiah 1:6; Isaiah 10