Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Micah 5:15
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 destroyed.
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 destroyed.
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...
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 ...
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...
HEATHEN. nations....
_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...
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...
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...
5:15 of. (f-20) Or 'who have not hearkened.'...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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....
_[Micah 5:14]_ וְ עָשִׂ֜יתִי בְּ אַ֧ף וּ...
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...
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,...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Micah 5:15 execute H6213 (H8804) vengeance H5359 anger H639 fury H2534 nations H1471 heard H8085 (H8804)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
2 Thessalonians 1:8; Micah 5:8; Psalms 149:7...
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....