Micah 1:10
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What does Micah 1:10 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrahb roll thyself in the dust."
What does Micah 1:10 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrahb roll thyself in the dust."
Verse Micah 1:10. _DECLARE YE_ IT _NOT AT GATH_] Do not let this prediction be known among the _Philistines_, else they will glory over you. _HOUSE OF APHRAH_] Or, _Beth-aphrah_. This place is mentio...
TELL IT NOT IN GATH - Gath had probably now ceased to be; at least, to be of any account . It shows how David’s elegy lived in the hearts of Judah, that his words are used as a proverb, (just as we do...
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 DIRGE ON ISRAEL'S DOWNFALL. This is a difficult and corrupt passage, playing on the names of towns and villages which are chosen for their assonances or their ominous suggestions, in a way impossi...
DECLARE YE IT NOT AT GATH. Compare 2 Samuel 1:20. GATH. Now _Tell es Safi_ (Joshua 11:22, &c). AT ALL. Hebrew. _bakko,_ written _defectively_ for _beakko._ Note the Figure of speech _Paronomasia_ (A...
_Declare ye it not_ -May we at least be spared the sight of the malicious joy of our envious neighbours!" Here begins a series of paronomasias, which however are far from indicating a playful mood in...
_MICAH WEPT OVER GOD'S JUDGMENT -- MICAH 1:8-12_ : Samaria's wickedness had spread even to Jerusalem. It was so heart breaking to Micah that he said, "I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and vi...
IN THE HOUSE OF APHRAH ROLL, &C.— _Roll thyself in dust, in the very house of Aphrah,_ or _dust._ The word עפרה _aphrah,_ has here a double sense; for it denotes the city of _Aphrah,_ or _Aphron,_ in...
SAMARIA TO BE DESTROYED. Micah 1:6-11 RV. Therefore I will make Samaria as a heap of the field, and as places for planting vineyards; and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I wil...
Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust. DECLARE YE IT NOT AT GATH - on the borders of Judea, one of the five cities of the Philistines who w...
1:10 all; (b-9) Or 'in Acco (i.e. 'weeping') weep not.' Vers. 10-15 are made up of paranomasia, see Isaiah 5:7 Beth-le-aphrah (c-11) House of dust....
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...
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...
DECLARE YE IT NOT AT GATH. — The prophet lets his lament flow after the strain of David’s elegy, “Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon.” In this passage the parallelism seems...
בְּ גַת֙ אַל ־תַּגִּ֔ידוּ בָּכֹ֖ו אַל ־תִּבְכּ֑וּ בְּ בֵ֣ית לְ עַפְרָ֔ה עָפָ֖ר _הִתְפַּלָּֽשִׁי_†׃...
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 des...
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...
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...
Declare ye [it] not at (h) Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of (i) Aphrah roll thyself in the dust. (h) Lest the Philistines our enemies rejoice at our destruction. (i) Which was a city near t...
Geth. Amongst the Philistines, lest they rejoice at your calamity. (Challoner) (2 Kings i. 20., and Amos iii. 9.) (Calmet) --- Tell not these calamities, which I foresee, among your enemies, lest they...
I do not trespass on the Reader with observations on what is here said; it is sufficient to remark, that the Prophet is speaking of the low estate of the Church, and he calls in the neighboring nation...
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 wit...
The Prophet seems here to be inconsistent with himself: for he first describes the calamity that was to be evident to all; but now he commands silence, lest the report should reach the enemies. But th...
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...
DECLARE YE [IT] NOT AT GATH,.... A city of the Philistines, put for all the rest: the phrase is borrowed from 2 Samuel 1:20; where the reason is given, and holds good here as there; and the sense is,...
Declare ye [it] not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust. Ver. 10. _Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all_] _sc._ in their sight and hearing (though at...
_Declare ye it not in Gath_ Lest the Philistines triumph. The words seem to be taken out of David s lamentation over Saul and Jonathan, 2 Samuel 1:20, where see the note. _Weep ye not at all_ Or, _wee...
Lamentation Over Judah's Chastisement...
APHRAH: That is, dust...
8-16 The prophet laments that Israel's case is desperate; but declare it not in Gath. Gratify not those that make merry with the sins or with the sorrows of God's Israel. Roll thyself in the dust, as...
DECLARE YE IT NOT AT GATH; do what you can to keep your griefs to yourselves, let them not be public, that the Philistines, your bitter enemies, should know how sad it is with you and rejoice at it. G...
Micah 1:10 Tell H5046 (H8686) Gath H1661 Weep H1058 (H8799) all H1058 (H8800) Aphrah H1036 Roll H6428 (H8690) (H8675) H6428 (H8694) dust H6083 Declare - 2 Samuel 1:20; Amos 5:13,...
A LAMENT FOR THE CITIES OF JUDAH (MICAH 1:10). These cities lay in the path of Sennacherib as he advanced on Jerusalem after defeating the Egyptian army, and subjugating Philistia, and they illuminat...
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...
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 abusers of Yahweh’s la...
CRITICAL NOTES. MICAH 1:10.] The Prophet thinks now of the malicious joy of heathen neighbours. Ten places are mentioned in Micah 1:10 to depict what would happen in them. In most cases the things sa...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1:1-2:13 Part I. THREATENINGS AND JUDGMENTS ON ISRAEL AND JUDAH, WITH PREDICTION OF EVENTUAL DELIVERANCE. MICAH 1:1 The _inscription, _or heading of the book, conveying the prophet...
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...
2 Samuel 1:20; Amos 5:13; Amos 6:10; Jeremiah 6:26; Job 2:8; Joshua 18:23; Lamentations 3:29...
Declare ye it not — Lest the Philistines triumph. Weep ye not — Make no public weeping. Aphrah — This was farther from the Philistines. Roll thyself — Express thy sorrow....