Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Micah 2:11
Walking — If a man pretend to have the spirit of prophesy. Saying — You shall have plenty of days, and may eat, drink, and be merry. He shall even be the prophet — Such they like and chuse.
Walking — If a man pretend to have the spirit of prophesy. Saying — You shall have plenty of days, and may eat, drink, and be merry. He shall even be the prophet — Such they like and chuse.
Verse Micah 2:11. _IF A MAN WALKING IN THE SPIRIT AND FALSEHOOD_] The meaning is: If a man who professes to be _Divinely inspired_ do _lie_, by prophesying of plenty, c., then such a person shall be...
IF A MAN WALKING IN THE SPIRIT AND FALSEHOOD - Literally, “in spirit” (not My Spirit) “and falsehood,” that is, in a lying spirit; such as they, whose woe Ezekiel pronounces Ezekiel 13:3, “Woe unto th...
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...
WINE. Hebrew. _yayin._ App-27. STRONG DRINK. Hebrew. _shekar._ App-27. PROPHET. sputterer; as in Micah 2:6. Literally dropper [of words]....
_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...
IF A MAN, &C.— _If a man, walking after the wind,_ or _pursuing vanity and falsehood, do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee for wine and for strong drink,_ &c....
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...
If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people. IF A MAN WALKING IN THE SPIRIT - the...
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...
IN THE SPIRIT AND FALSEHOOD] better, 'after wind and lies.' What promises material benefits alone appeals to them. 12, 13. An oracle of restoration, which has been inserted between the two denunciati...
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...
This is Micah’s message. If he *prophesies any more, he will be wasting time. The evil rulers, traders and employers listen to the false *prophets. But they do not ask whether those *prophets are real...
IF A MAN WALKING IN THE SPIRIT AND FALSEHOOD — _i.e.,_ in a lying spirit, speaking smooth and pleasant things, such as the people loved to hear, after the fashion of Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah — h...
לוּ ־אִ֞ישׁ הֹלֵ֥ךְ ר֨וּחַ֙ וָ שֶׁ֣קֶר כִּזֵּ
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...
If a man (m) walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, [saying], (n) I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people. (m) That is, show himself to...
Would God, &c. The prophet could have wished, out of his love to his people, that he might be deceived in denouncing to them these evils that were to fall upon them: but by conforming himself to the w...
Here is a very awful scripture. The Lord alone knows in how many instances it may be daily fulfilling. Alas! when false teachers are given to a people of a deluded mind, what a state must that people...
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 points out here another vice by which the people were infected — that they wished to be soothed with flatteries: for all the ungodly think that they are in a manner exempt from God’s judgm...
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...
IF A MAN WALKING IN THE SPIRIT AND FALSEHOOD DO LIE,.... Who pretends to be a prophet, and a spiritual man, and to be under the inspiration and influence of the Spirit of God, but utters nothing but l...
If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, [saying], I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people. Ver. 11. _If a man, walking in the s...
_If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood_ If a man falsely pretending to have the spirit of prophecy, _do lie_ Speak things very false, and utter pretended predictions of events that shall never...
If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood, in vanity and falsehood, namely, in preaching his own ideas, DO LIE, SAYING, I WILL PROPHESY UNTO THEE OF WINE AND OF STRONG DRINK, that is, of the enjoym...
Expulsion of the Leaders and Restoration Of The Lord's People...
WALKING IN THE SPIRIT AND FALSEHOOD: Or, walk with the wind, and lie falsely...
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...
This people were weary of true prophets, and silenced them, MICAH 2:6, but they were fondly taken with the false prophets, and what these promised them; and these, as here described, are by a dreadful...
Micah 2:11 If H3863 man H376 walk H1980 (H8802) false H8267 spirit H7307 lie H3576 (H8765) prophesy...
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...
_If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie,.. .he shall even be the prophet of this people _ ISRAEL’S POPULAR PREACHER This is Micah’s idea of the kind of prophet (or, as we should say, pu...
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 2:11 PREACH... OF WINE. The people welcomed “preaching” that emphasized overindulgence. They did not want to hear that they were violating God’s standards....
CRITICAL NOTES.] MICAH 2:11. SPIRIT] Lit. walk in the wind, sig. what is vain or worthless (Isaiah 26:18; Isaiah 41:29); some, “the man of spirit, _i.e._ claiming inspiration.” PROPHESY] Soothe you in...
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 John 4:1; 1 Kings 13:18; 1 Kings 22:21; 1 Kings 22:6;...