Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Micah 1:6
discover, &c. This has now recently (1911) been done in the unearthing of Ahab's wine-cellars.
discover, &c. This has now recently (1911) been done in the unearthing of Ahab's wine-cellars.
Verse Micah 1:6. _I WILL MAKE SAMARIA_] I will bring it to desolation: and, instead of being a royal city, it shall be a _place for_ _vineyards_. _Newcome_ observes, that Samaria was situated on a hil...
THEREFORE - (literally, “And”) I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard Jerome: “The order of the sin was the order or the punishment.” Samaria’s sins were the earli...
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...
_as a heap_ Rather, INTO A HEAP (i.e. into ruins). _as plantings of a vineyard_ Rather, INTO THE PLANTINGS, &c. Samaria should remain so long in ruins, that vineyards should be laid out upon it (comp...
_THE LORD'S WORD CONCERNING JACOB -- MICAH 1:5-7:_ God's judgment was coming because "of the terrible sins of Israel, the descendants of Jacob. Samaria had led Israel to sin, and pagan altars at Jerus...
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...
Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof. THEREFO...
PLANTINGS OF A VINEYARD] Samaria is to become heaps of stones, like the stoneheaps over which vines were trained. INTO THE VALLEY] Samaria stood on a hill (1 Kings 16:24)....
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...
‘Therefore’ links the crime to the punishment. Samaria’s people prayed to images. This showed that they did not understand God or his laws. Their evil religion did not teach good behaviour. In fact, i...
SAMARIA AS AN HEAP OF THE FIELD. — Samaria was to be reduced to what it had been before the days of Ahab; the palatial city of the kings of the northern kingdom should return to the normal condition o...
וְ שַׂמְתִּ֥י שֹׁמְרֹ֛ון לְ עִ֥י הַ שָּׂדֶ֖ה
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...
_Heap. Septuagint, "hut to keep the fruit." Hebrew, "hillock of the field," (Haydock) to be cultivated. (Grotius) --- Bare, by Salmanasar, 4 Kings xvii. 6. It was afterwards rebuilt, (Calmet) but comp...
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...
Though Micah intended especially to devote his services to the Jews, as we have said yesterday, he yet, in the first place, passes judgment on Samaria; for it was his purpose afterwards to speak more...
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...
THEREFORE I WILL MAKE SAMARIA AS AN HEAP OF THE FIELD, [AND] AS PLANTINGS OF A VINEYARD,.... As a field ploughed, and laid in heaps; see Micah 3:12; or as stones gathered out of a field, and out of a...
Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, [and] as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof. Ver. 6....
_Therefore I will make Samaria as a heap_ A heap of ruins. _And as plantings of a vineyard_ As in planting vineyards men dig the earth, and cast it up in hillocks, so shall they make this city. The Vu...
Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, as ruins that fall into dust and finally become a part of the soil, AND AS PLANTINGS OF A VINEYARD, that is, places where vineyards may be plante...
EPHRAIM'S DESTRUCTION THREATENED...
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,...
THEREFORE; for these sins of Samaria, and the kingdom of Israel. I WILL MAKE; not by an immediate hand from heaven, but by the Assyrians under the conduct of Shalmaneser, they shall do it as my servan...
Micah 1:6 make H7760 (H8804) Samaria H8111 ruins H5856 field H7704 planting H4302 vineyard H3754 down H5064 ...
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 1:6 I WILL shows the Lord’s intention to act (vv. Micah 1:7, Micah 1:15;...
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 Kings 19:25; Ezekiel 13:14; Habakkuk 3:13; Hosea 13:16; Isaiah 25:
As an heap — As a heap of ruins. Of a vineyard — In planting vineyards, they dig up the earth, and cast it up in hillocks; so shall they make this city. Into the valley — The city was built on a high...