Arise and thresh, (n) O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.
(n) God gives his Church this victory, as often as he overcomes their enemies: but the accomplishment of this will be at the last coming of Christ.
Verse Micah 4:13. _ARISE AND THRESH, O DAUGHTER OF ZION_] This refers to the subject of the preceding verse. When God shall have _gathered_ _together_ all thy enemies, as into the _threshing-floor_,...
ARISE - (It may be,) from the dust in which they were lying, “I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass.” Threshing in the East is partly with oxen, partly with wheels of iron, or w...
CHAPTER 4 _ 1. The future of glory (Micah 4:1) _ 2. The restoration and the final victory (Micah 4:6) Micah 4:1. The last verse predicted the long desolation and ruin of Zion. This is followed at on...
MICAH 4:6 TO MICAH 5:1. EXILE AND RESTORATION: ISRAEL'S VICTORY OVER THE NATIONS. The reference to the Babylonian exile (Micah 4:10) shows that the passage is not earlier than the sixth century, Micah...
THRESH. tread as oxen. HORN... HOOFS. Referring to the strength of the oxen, and to the completeness of the destruction. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 25:4). App-92. Compare Isaiah 41:15.Jeremi...
_THE HEATHENS DID NOT UNDERSTAND GOD'S PLAN -- MICAH 4:11-13:_ It is sad when people take pleasure in the misfortune of others. However, there were many nations that surrounded Israel that said, "We c...
ARISE, AND THRESH— The expression alludes to the manner of treading out the corn in the eastern countries; which was done by the feet of oxen. Instead of, _And I will consecrate,_ &c. Houbigant reads,...
DISTRESS AND REDEMPTION. Micah 4:9 to Micah 5:1 RV. Now why doest thou cry out aloud? Is there no king in thee, is thy counsellor perished, that pangs have taken hold of thee as of a woman in travail?...
Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and...
4:13 brass; (d-20) Or 'bronze.'...
BRIGHT VISIONS OF THE FUTURE Micah's view of Israel's future, especially in relation to the nations. He believes that God chose Israel to maintain and teach true religion, and that in this lies Israel...
HOOFS] oxen were used to tread out corn (Deuteronomy 25:4). I WILL CONSECRATE] RV 'thou shalt devote': cp. Leviticus 27:28. The nations, which try to destroy Israel, shall be destroyed by Israel in t...
However, these armies do not understand what God is doing. They do not realise that God is using them. He is causing their defeat. They gather against Jerusalem. But it is the *LORD who gathers them....
MICAH SPEAKS A MESSAGE FROM GOD TO ALL THE NATIONS MICAH _LES PAINTER_ CHAPTER 4 4:1-8 NEW JERUSALEM WILL HAVE A HIGH POSITION OVER THE NATIONS There is a big change now in Micah’s *prophecy. He...
ARISE AND THRESH. — Micah, having likened Israel to the sheaves safely gathered, pursues the metaphor by calling upon the daughter of Zion to thresh her enemies after the manner of oxen treading out t...
ק֧וּמִי וָ דֹ֣ושִׁי בַת ־צִיֹּ֗ון כִּֽי ־קַרְ
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 PROMISE OF PEACE Micah 4:1-13 It is not improbable that Isaiah, Micah 2:1-4, and Micah quoted an older prophecy, which in its fullness, is yet to be fulfilled. In the millennial age Israel, in he...
From this scene of a corrupt people governed by corrupt rulers, the prophet lifts his eyes, and looking into the future sees the day when under true government deliverance will be wrought and the divi...
_Brass. Fear nothing. The Jews did not attack the army of Cambyses, (Ezechiel xxxviii. 21., and xxxix. 10.; Calmet) at least at first. (Haydock) --- But what God did for them is attributed to them. (C...
See, Reader, see! what holy triumphs await the Church in the end. It is not enough that Jesus will drive out all the enemies of his people before them; but he will bring all their enemies under them....
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...
_Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion; for I have made thy horn _(136) _iron, and thy hoofs brass. _The Prophet here confirms what he had previously said: and he exhorts the daughter of Zion to arise; f...
But again the prophet, in the spirit of Isaiah, concludes his denunciations of sin, and his prophecies of judgment and desolation, by announcing the full re-establishment of blessing and glory in Zion...
ARISE, AND THRESH, O DAUGHTER OF ZION,.... The nations gathered against her, and now laid together on the floor as sheaves to be threshed. Here the people of God are aroused, and called out of a low a...
Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and t...
_Arise and thrash, O daughter of Zion_ The _daughter of Zion_ means the Jewish people, whose power and victory over their enemies are here foretold. The expressions made use of are figurative, alludin...
Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion, according to the Oriental custom of having the sheaves threshed out on the open threshing-floor with the aid of oxen; FOR I WILL MAKE THINE HORN IRON AND I WILL M...
ZION ESTABLISHED THROUGHOUT THE EARTH...
9-13 Many nations would assemble against Zion to rejoice in her calamities. They would not understand that the Lord had collected them as sheaves are gathered to be threshed; and that Zion would be s...
ARISE: this imperative may be read in the future tense, and so be an express promise; it is, however, an implicit promise made to the daughter of Zion, the Jewish church, type of the gospel catholic c...
Micah 4:13 Arise H6965 (H8798) thresh H1758 (H8798) daughter H1323 Zion H6726 make H7760 (H8799) horn...
MICAH DESCRIBES THE COMING TRIBULATIONS OF JUDAH BUT GIVES THE FINAL ASSURANCE THAT IN THE END YHWH WILL TRIUMPH (MICAH 4:9). The near future is seen as bleak. Judah and Jerusalem are seen as in despa...
Micah 4:1. _But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people...
CONTENTS: The future kingdom of Christ on earth and Israel's happy regathering. Battle of Armageddon. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: In the last days of the age, the Kingdom of Christ shall be...
Micah 4:1. _In the last days it shall come to pass._ In the new times, as in Isaiah 4., which Micah had read, and now repeats by the Spirit. In the gospel age the new-testament church, built above the...
The Lord shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies THE MORAL REGENERATION OF THE WORLD I. The state of mankind requires it. “Is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished?” It was more...
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 4:8 As the kingdom is established (Micah 4:8), the focus moves from distress and salvation (Micah 4:9) to messianic
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 4:13 ARISE AND THRESH. Zion is pictured as an invincible ox treading grain. LORD OF THE WHOLE EARTH. The Lord controls everything....
CRITICAL NOTES. Micah 4:9.] Zion will lose her king, wander into captivity, but will be redeemed from her enemies. KING] Loss of royal government, the cause of lamentation, more painful to Israel tha...
EXPOSITION MICAH 4:1 § 4. _The prophet suddenly announces the future glory of the temple mountain and the ideal happiness of the people_ MICAH 4:1 BUT. There is no adversative particle here; the ve...
But in the last days (Micah 4:1) Or in the later days. So we move on out into yet the future. This has not yet happened, far from it, but it is going to happen. And I am convinced that it is going to...
1 Corinthians 16:2; 2 Samuel 8:10; 2 Samuel 8:11; Daniel 2:44;...
And thresh — The future strength of the church employed in subduing her enemies, is here foretold. Iron — This expresses the strength of the church firm as iron, to beat down her enemies. Brass — By t...