The transgression of Jacob... the sins of the house of Israel. — The corruption of the country came from the capital cities. Samaria, on her hill, set an example of idolatry, drunkenness, and all the evils of a most profligate society; and even Jerusalem, the city “set on an hill,” gave a home in the Temple of Jehovah to heathen deities.
Verse Micah 1:5. _WHAT_ IS _THE TRANSGRESSION OF JACOB?_] Is it not something extremely grievous? Is it not that of _Samaria_? Samaria and Jerusalem, the chief cities, are infected with _idolatry_. E...
FOR THE TRANSGRESSION OF JACOB IS ALL THIS - Not for any change of purpose in God; nor, again, as the effect of man’s lust of conquest. None could have any power against God’s people, unless it had be...
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...
TRANSGRESSION. rebellion. Hebrew. _pasha'._ App-44. SINS. Hebrew. _chata'._ App-44. Aram, and Syriac read singular. WHAT. Whose. IS IT NOT SAMARIA?. is it not Samaria's [idolatry]? Figure of speech...
The cause of this awful manifestation the sin of Samaria and Jerusalem. _Jacob_ A poetic synonym for Israel. The term has a slightly different meaning in the two halves of the verse. In the first, it...
_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...
WHAT IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF JACOB?— _Who_ [_makes_] _transgression in Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And who the high-places of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?_ But Houbigant prefers the translation of the LX...
THE OCCASION OF THE WRATH. Micah 1:5 RV. For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the hi...
For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusal...
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...
Micah accuses ‘Jacob’ (the northern nation from Jacob’s family) and he accuses *Israel (all *Israel). He accuses them about *sin. The people have not obeyed the *covenant that God made with *Israel. T...
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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...
For the transgression of Jacob [is] all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What [is] the transgression of Jacob? [is it] not (d) Samaria? and what [are] the high (e) places of Judah? [are...
_Jerusalem. High places were left there under Joathan, 4 Kings xv. 35. Achab had introduced the worship of Baal into Samaria, and though the family of Jehu repressed this worship, it gained ground whe...
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 Prophet teaches, in this verse, that God is not angry for nothing; though when he appears rigid, men expostulate with him, and clamor as though he were cruel. That men may, therefore, acknowledge...
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...
FOR THE TRANSGRESSION OF JACOB [IS] ALL THIS, AND FOR THE SINS OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL,.... All this evil, all these calamities and judgments, signified by the above metaphorical phrases, these did not...
For the transgression of Jacob [is] all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What [is] the transgression of Jacob? [is it] not Samaria? and what [are] the high places of Judah? [are they] no...
_For the transgression of Jacob_ That is, of the sons of Jacob; for the many transgressions committed among them; _is all this_ All these many, great, and irresistible judgments of God foretold and ex...
For the transgression of Jacob is all this, as a due recompense for the wickedness of the covenant people, AND FOR THE SINS OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. WHAT IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF JACOB? IS IT NOT SAMARI...
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,...
FOR THE TRANSGRESSION; the singular for the plural, the many transgressions committed amongst them; but especially that flood of iniquity which, springing up in Samaria, did overflow the whole kingdom...
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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 1:5 JACOB... HOUSE OF ISRAEL. The whole nation will be judged (Micah 2:12; Micah 3:1,...
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...
1 Kings 13:32; 1 Thessalonians 2:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:16; 2 Chronicles 28:23;...
Jacob — The sons of Jacob, the ten tribes. What — Or, who is the spring, and cause of that overflowing transgression? Of Jacob — The kingdom of the ten tribes, the head of which was Samaria, where the...