Micah 1:9

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. The vv. contain a series of wordplays on the names of villages in SW. Judah. The text is often obscure, and the point of some of the references depends on local allusions which we have lost. The district may have suffered when Sargon marched by this route to attack Egypt at Raphia, and when he captured Ashdod in 711 b.c.