the mountains shall be molten The figure is that of a storm, but no ordinary storm. Lightning descends, and dissolves the very mountains, and torrents of rain scoop out channels in the valleys. Similar symbolic descriptions occur in Judges 5:5; Isaiah 64:1; Habakkuk 3:6; comp. Exodus 19:18.
AND THE MOUNTAINS SHALL BE MOLTEN UNDER HIM - It has been thought that this is imagery, taken from volcanic eruptions ; but, although there is a very remarkable volcanic district just outside of Gilea...
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...
THE MOUNTAINS, &C. This verse foretells the calamities of 2 Kings 17 and 25....
_THE LORD'S WORD CONCERNING SAMARIA AND JERUSALEM -- MICAH 1:1-4:_ Micah's message came by revelation of God. It was given to him when Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah were the kings of Judah. It was a mess...
THE VALLEYS SHALL BE CLEFT— _Shall be dissolved like water,_ &c. Houbigant....
A CALL TO HARKEN. Micah 1:2-4 RV. Hear, ye peoples, all of you; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord Jehovah be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple. For, behold,...
And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place. AND THE MOUNTAINS SHALL BE MOLTEN UNDER HI...
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...
‘High places’ and ‘valleys’ describes all places everywhere. It may mean strong, important institutions. People in other nations met together on the high places. They prayed to their gods there. God h...
THE MOUNTAINS SHALL BE MOLTEN. — The manifestations of the presence of God are taken from the description of the giving of the Law, when “the hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the...
וְ נָמַ֤סּוּ הֶֽ הָרִים֙ תַּחְתָּ֔יו וְ הָ
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...
_Melted. Septuagint, "moved." (Haydock) --- Cleft, as it was to swallow up Core, (Numbers xvi. 31.) with the greatest ease._...
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...
_THE LORD’S ADVENT_ ‘The Lord cometh forth out of His place … and the mountains shall be molten under Him.’ Micah 1:3 God, said the prophet, would come down in judgment. He loved His people too wel...
And he afterwards adds, that this going forth of God would be terrible, _Melt, _he says, _shall the mountains under him _It hence appears, that the Prophet did not speak in the last verse of the depar...
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...
AND THE MOUNTAINS SHALL BE MOLTEN UNDER HIM,.... As Sinai was when he descended on it, and as all nations will be at the general conflagration; but here the words are to be taken, not literally, but f...
And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, [and] as the waters [that are] poured down a steep place. Ver. 4. _And the mountains shall be molt...
_Hear, all ye people_ All ye of Israel and Judah. _Hearken, O earth_ Or, O land, [of Israel:] _and all that therein is_ That is, all its inhabitants. _Let the Lord be witness against you_ “I call him...
And the mountains shall be molten under Him, dissolving before His almighty power, AND THE VALLEYS SHALL BE CLEFT, cleaving asunder before His majesty, AS WAX BEFORE THE FIRE AND AS THE WATERS THAT AR...
EPHRAIM'S DESTRUCTION THREATENED...
A STEEP PLACE: _ Heb._ a descent...
1-7 The earth is called upon, with all that are therein, to hear the prophet. God's holy temple will not protect false professors. Neither men of high degree, as the mountains, nor men of low degree,...
THE MOUNTAINS SHALL BE MOLTEN: if literally understood, we know it hath been so: when God will kindle that fire which shall burn up the earth, and the works of it, as he will when he cometh finally to...
Micah 1:4 mountains H2022 melt H4549 (H8738) valleys H6010 split H1234 (H8691) wax H1749 before H6440 fire...
YHWH DECLARES HIS VERDICT ON SAMARIA AND JERUSALEM (MICAH 1:1). The chapter opens with a declaration of YHWH's sovereign power as Creator, and of His interest in the affairs of Judah and Israel, whic...
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, behold, the Lord cometh out of His place _ GOD’S PROCEDURE IN RELATION TO SIN This is a highly figurative and sublime representation of the Almighty in His retributive work, especially in rela...
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 1:4 MOUNTAINS WILL MELT. Compare Psalms 97:5; Nahum 1:5. The undoing of creation fore
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 Peter 3:10; Amos 9:5; Habakkuk 3:10; Habakkuk 3:6; Isaiah 64:1;...
Cleft — Or rent in sunder, broken up and slide away....