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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Micah 5:15

Such as they have not heard. — Rather, which have not been obedient — i.e., which had not availed themselves of the opportunities of learning the true religion.

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See also Micah 5:15 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Micah 5:15. _I WILL EXECUTE VENGEANCE - UPON THE HEATHEN_] And he did so; for the empires of the _Assyrians, Chaldeans_, and others, the sworn enemies of the Jews, have long since been utterly d...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HEATHEN. nations....

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard. AND I WILL EXECUTE VENGEANCE IN ANGER AND FURY UPON THE HEATHEN, SUCH AS THEY HAVE NOT HEARD - or, as...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    5:15 of. (f-20) Or 'who have not hearkened.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SUCH AS THEY HAVE NOT heard] RV 'which hearkened not.' God will judge the nations according to their attitude to Messiah and Israel's faith....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    This verse is about the punishment that God will give to the foreign nations. The people in those nations have not obeyed God. Therefore he is angry with them. He will show to them his great anger. Go...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Micah 5:14]_ וְ עָשִׂ֜יתִי בְּ אַ֧ף וּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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,...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, (l) such as they have not heard. (l) It will be so terrible that nothing like it has been heard of....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS BLESSED Lord Jesus! I would leave all other subjects, all other considerations, to follow thee thou Lamb of God, wherever I find thee in thy scriptures of truth. And as here in this Chapte...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    At last he adds, _And I will execute vengeance in wrath and in fury _He goes on with what I have just said of enemies; “I will then execute vengeance in wrath and in fury on the nations”. Here God men...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND I WILL EXECUTE VENGEANCE IN ANGER, AND FURY UPON THE HEATHEN,.... Or "nations" o; not the Pagan nations only, but the Papal and Mahometan ones, even all that are enemies to Christ, and his church...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard. _And I will execute vengeance in anger_] Upon those that refuse to be reformed, that know not God, and ob...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard, rather, "who have not heard," who refuse to accept the rule of the Messiah. Concerning the progress of pro...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I WILL EXECUTE VENGEANCE: God speaks to our capacity, he will proceed, or act, as the Hebrew word signifieth. He is supreme Judge, to whom vengeance belongeth, and when he hath passed the sentence, an...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Micah 5:15 execute H6213 (H8804) vengeance H5359 anger H639 fury H2534 nations H1471 heard H8085 (H8804)...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 5:15 EXECUTE VENGEANCE. The Lord alone, as the sovereign ruler, has the right to rescue his people and punish the NATIONS THAT DID NOT OBEY. The nations that return to the Lord rec...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Thessalonians 1:8; Micah 5:8; Psalms 149:7...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Have not heard — In an unprecedented manner. Christ will give his Son either the hearts or necks of his enemies, and make them either his friends or his footstool....

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