Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Micah 5:13
Graven images — This was verified among the Jews, who to this day hate images for divine uses, and learnt this in their captivity.
Graven images — This was verified among the Jews, who to this day hate images for divine uses, and learnt this in their captivity.
Verse Micah 5:13. _THY GRAVEN IMAGES ALSO WILL I CUT OFF_] Thou shalt be no more an idolatrous people....
I WILL CUT OFF THE CITIES OF THY LAND - So God promised by Zechariah, “Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls; for I will be unto her a wall of fire round about” Zechariah 2:4. The Church...
CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The siege and the smitten judge (Micah 5:1) _ 2. The smitten judge: Who he is (Micah 5:2) 3. The events of the future: (Micah 5:3) 4. The Rejected One, the Shepherd of Israel ...
THE PURGING OF ISRAEL. Some modern commentators, _e.g._ Wellhausen and Nowack, refer this to Micah; if so, it would anticipate the Deuteronomic denunciation of the pillars and Asherim (Deuteronomy 7:5...
GRAVEN IMAGES. See Micah 1:7, the same word. STANDING IMAGES. pillars. Probably. _'Asherahs._ See App-42. Compare "groves", Micah 5:14. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 23:24;...
_PURPOSING TO REMOVE INIQUITY -- MICAH 5:11-15:_ God told them that they would not have nor need their fortified cities. It was not that cities were wrong but that those cities had been places where t...
THE GLORIOUS FUTURE OF THE REMNANT. Micah 5:7-15 RV. And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples as dew from Jehovah, as showers upon the grass, that tarry not for man, nor wait for...
Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands. THY GRAVEN IMAGES ALSO WILL I CUT OFF - (cf. ; Isaia...
THE BIRTH OF THE MESSIAH 1-5a. Jerusalem is besieged, its ruler insulted by the invader (Micah 5:1). Micah proclaims not only deliverance, but a deliverer. He will arise from Bethlehem, David's birthp...
STANDING IMAGES] the stone pillars of Leviticus 26:1; Isaiah 19:19, etc....
MICAH SPEAKS A MESSAGE FROM GOD TO ALL THE NATIONS MICAH _LES PAINTER_ CHAPTER 5 5:1-6 THE *MESSIAH’S BIRTH AND HIS FUTURE GREATNESS The main subject of Micah’s message now changes. He has spoke...
‘Destroy’ in the *Hebrew language here has a special meaning. It means to remove something. And it means to make *spiritually clean (holy) the place where it was. To destroy here means to remove by pu...
_[Micah 5:12]_ וְ הִכְרַתִּ֧י פְסִילֶ֛יךָ וּ מַצֵּבֹותֶ֖יךָ...
THE KING TO COME Micah 4:8 - Micah 5:1 WHEN a people has to be purged of long injustice, when some high aim of liberty or of order has to be won, it is remarkable how often the drama of revolution pa...
THE DELIVERER FROM BETHLEHEM Micah 5:1-15 This name for Bethlehem recalls Genesis 48:7. Though insignificant in size she would outshine her compeers, because of Messiah's birth, Matthew 2:6. As man,...
Having thus described the coming deliverance, Micah utters the wonderful prophecy concerning the Deliverer and the deliverance under His administration. The Person of the Deliverer is first described...
CHAPTER V....
I include all these verses under one reading. They all, according to my view, proclaim the same doctrine, namely, the Lord's promise that the remnant of Jacob shall be defended, blessed, and protected...
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 now adds, _I will cut off thy graven images and thy statues from the midst of thee; and thou shalt not hereafter bend down before the works of thine hands _This verse is plain and contains nothing...
But there was something more definite still to be declared; the principal enemy of the last days was to be pointed out, and this in special connection with another and fatal sin of Jerusalem and her p...
THY GRAVEN IMAGES ALSO WILL I CUT OFF, AND THY STANDING IMAGES OUT OF THE MIDST OF THEE,.... The former were such as were made of wood or stone; the latter statues, such as were molten or cast, and ma...
Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands. Ver. 13. _Thy graven images also will I cut off_] Sorc...
_And I will cut off witchcrafts_, &c. Here is foretold the downfall of all unlawful arts and devices, which had been used by the Jews in former ages, to obtain the knowledge of future events: that God...
Thy graven images also will I cut off and thy standing images, those cast from metal, OUT OF THE MIDST OF THEE; AND THOU SHALT NO MORE WORSHIP THE WORK OF THINE HANDS....
THE PERSON AND THE RULE OF MESSIAH. Having described the conditions and circumstances under which the period of Messianic glory would be established, the prophet now turns to the direct prediction co...
STANDING IMAGES: Or, statues...
7-15 The remnant of Israel, converted to Christ in the primitive times, were among many nations as the drops of dew, and were made instruments in calling a large increase of spiritual worshippers. Bu...
THY GRAVEN IMAGES; which were for the matter of them made of wood or stone, smoothed, and fashioned to the images, which the blind idolater thought did well represent his god. STANDING IMAGES: statues...
Micah 5:13 images H6456 off H3772 (H8689) pillars H4676 midst H7130 worship H7812 (H8691) work H4639 hands...
THE REASON WHY GOD ALLOWS THE EXILE OF HIS PEOPLE AND WILL YET CAUSE MORE EXILES UNTIL THE LAND IS EMPTY (MICAH 5:10). In another oracle (‘says YHWH') Micah now explains why all Israel's troubles mus...
CONTENTS: The birth and rejection of Christ foretold. His ultimate eternal kingdom after His rejection. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Christ, who existed from eternity as Son of God, was to b...
Micah 5:1. _Oh daughter of troops._ Of thieves, that is, the Chaldeans, who having robbed all the nations of Asia, came to Jerusalem, and robbed the whole land, smote Zedekiah with the severe rod of c...
_I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee _ GOD’S DEPRIVING DISPENSATION TOWARDS MEN Here the Almighty is represented as taking away from Israel many things they greatly valued. God’s pro...
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 5:1 A new hope for Israel, and for the whole world, comes by means of a new David. His deeds are praised (vv. Micah 5:1) and the influence of the Israelite remnant among the nation...
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 5:12 SORCERIES... TELLERS OF FORTUNES. Seeking occult knowledge was forbidden to Israel (Deuteronomy 18:10,...
CRITICAL NOTES. Micah 5:10. Horses] All human resources on which to depend (Isaiah 2:6; Psalms 20:7). “The Church will never be safe till she is stripped of all creature-trusts, and rests on Jehovah...
EXPOSITION MICAH 5:1 _§ _8_. After Zion_'_s degradation Messiah shall be born, and shall bring the world into subjection._ MICAH 5:1 This verse is joined to the preceding chapter in the Hebrew. Jer...
Now in chapter 5 Micah leaves that scene of the future and he comes back to an intermediate scene. Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: and they shall sm...
Ezekiel 36:25; Ezekiel 37:23; Ezekiel 6:9; Hosea 14:3; Hosea 14:8;...