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John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Micah
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 53,387 words · 79 reading sections
Micah 1:1
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible. Micah 1:1 INTRODUCTION TO MICAH This book is called, in the Hebrew copies, "Sepher Micah", the Book of Micah; in the Vulgate Latin version "the Prophecy of Micah"; and in the Syriac version "the Prophecy of the Prophet Micah". This prophet is not the same with Micaiah the …
1,247 wordsSECTION 2Micah 1:2
Micah 1:2 Ver. 2. Hear, all ye people,.... Or, "the people, all of them" {m}; not all the nations of the world, but the nations of Israel, so called from their several tribes; though some {n} think the rest of the inhabitants of the earth are meant: thee are the same words which are used by Micaiah the prophet in the …
428 wordsSECTION 3Micah 1:3
Micah 1:3 Ver. 3. For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place,.... Out of heaven, the place of the house of his Shechinah or Majesty, as the Targum; where his throne is prepared; where he keeps his court, and displays his glory; from whence he removes, not by local motion, since he is everywhere; but by some manifes…
346 wordsSECTION 4Micah 1:4
Micah 1:4 Ver. 4. And the mountains shall be molten under him,.... As Sinai was when he descended on it, and as all nations will be at the general conflagration; but here the words are to be taken, not literally, but figuratively, for the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, and for the kings, and princes, and great men in t…
342 wordsSECTION 5Micah 1:5
Micah 1:5 Ver. 5. 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 come by chance, nor without, reason; but were or would be inflicted, according to the righteous judg…
455 wordsSECTION 6Micah 1:6
Micah 1:6 Ver. 6. Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, [and] as plantings of a vineyard,.... As a field ploughed, and laid in heaps; see Mic 3:12; or as stones gathered out of a field, and out of a vineyard planted, and laid in a heap; so should this city become a heap of stones and rubbish, being ut…
999 wordsSECTION 7Micah 1:7
Micah 1:7 Ver. 7. And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces,.... By the Assyrian army, for the sake of the gold and silver of which they were, made, or with which they were adorned, as was usually done by conquerors to the gods of the nations they conquered; these were the calf of Samaria, and other …
1,046 wordsSECTION 8Micah 1:8
Micah 1:8 Ver. 8. Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked,.... To his shut, putting off his upper garment; the rough one, such as the prophets used to wear; which he did as the greater sign of his mourning: sometimes, in such cases, they rent their garments; at other times they stripped themselves…
1,157 wordsSECTION 9Micah 1:9
Micah 1:9 Ver. 9. For her wound [is] incurable,.... Or her "stroke [is] desperate" {e}. The ruin of Samaria, and the ten tribes, was inevitable; the decree being gone forth, and they hardened in their sins, and continuing in their impenitence; and their destruction was irrevocable; they were not to be restored again, …
271 wordsSECTION 10Micah 1:10
Micah 1:10 Ver. 10. Declare ye [it] not at Gath,.... A city of the Philistines, put for all the rest: the phrase is borrowed from 2Sa 1:20; where the reason is given, and holds good here as there; and the sense is, not that the destruction of Israel, or the invasion of Judea, or the besieging of Jerusalem, could be hi…
4,136 wordsSECTION 11Micah 2:1
Micah 2:1 INTRODUCTION TO MICAH 2 In this chapter complaint is made of the sins of the people of Israel, and they are threatened with punishment for them. The sins they are charged with are covetousness, oppression, and injustice, which were premeditated, and done deliberately, Mic 2:1; therefore the Lord devised evi…
729 wordsSECTION 12Micah 2:2
Micah 2:2 Ver. 2. And they covet fields, and take [them] by violence,.... The fields of their poor neighbours, which lie near them, and convenient for them; they wish they were theirs, and they contrive ways and means to get them into their possession; and if they cannot get them by fair means, if they cannot persuade…
217 wordsSECTION 13Micah 2:3
Micah 2:3 Ver. 3. Therefore thus saith the Lord, behold, against this family do I devise an evil,.... Because of those evils of covetousness, oppression, and injustice, secretly devised, and deliberately committed, the Lord, who neither slumbers nor sleeps, declares, and would have it observed, that he had devised an …
323 wordsSECTION 14Micah 2:4
Micah 2:4 Ver. 4. In that day shall [one] take up a parable against you,.... Making use of your name, as a byword, a proverb, a taunt, and a jeer; mocking at your calamities and miseries: or, "concerning you" {c}; take up and deliver out a narrative of your troubles, in figurative and parabolical expressions; which Ki…
435 wordsSECTION 15Micah 2:5
Micah 2:5 Ver. 5. Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot,.... This confirms what was before delivered in a parabolical way, and as a lamentation; and is spoken either to the false prophet, as Kimchi; who should not be, nor have any posterity to inherit by lot the land of Israel; or to those oppre…
288 wordsSECTION 16Micah 2:6
Micah 2:6 Ver. 6. Prophesy ye not, [say they to them that] prophesy,.... Or "drop not" {h}; such terrible words, such menacing things; let them not flow from your lips with such profusion and abundance; cease from speaking in the name of the Lord, if we can hear nothing else but sharp reproofs, and severe judgments: o…
399 wordsSECTION 17Micah 2:7
Micah 2:7 Ver. 7. O [thou that art] named the house of Jacob,.... Called after that great and good man, and reckoned the people of God, and have the character of being religious persons; but, alas! have but a name, and not the thing, and are the degenerate offspring of that famous patriarch: is the Spirit of the Lord…
403 wordsSECTION 18Micah 2:8
Micah 2:8 Ver. 8. Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy,.... Or "yesterday" {o}; meaning a very little while before this prophecy, the people of Israel, those of the ten tribes, who were the people of God by profession, rose up as an enemy, not only to God and true religion, worshipping idols; but rather to t…
318 wordsSECTION 19Micah 2:9
Micah 2:9 Ver. 9. The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses,.... Not content to slay their husbands, they took their wives or widows captive, dispossessed them of their habitations, where they had lived delightfully with their husbands and children; so we find that, at the time before referred…
234 wordsSECTION 20Micah 2:10
Micah 2:10 Ver. 10. Arise ye, and depart,.... That is, out the land; do not think of a continuance in it, but expect a removal from it; prepare for captivity and exile; look for it every moment, to hear it said to you, arise, and be gone from hence; for, since you have drove others out of their inheritances and posses…
553 wordsSECTION 21Micah 2:11
Micah 2:11 Ver. 11. If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie,.... Who pretends to be a prophet, and a spiritual man, and to be under the inspiration and influence of the Spirit of God, but utters nothing but lies and falsehoods; or who is actuated by a spirit of falsehood and lying; or, as in the margin, "w…
1,817 wordsSECTION 22Micah 3:1
Micah 3:1 INTRODUCTION TO MICAH 3 In this chapter the prophet reproves and threatens both princes and prophets, first separately, and then conjunctly; first the heads and princes of the people, civil magistrates, for their ignorance of justice, and hatred of good, and love of evil, and for their oppression and cruelt…
510 wordsSECTION 23Micah 3:2
Micah 3:2 Ver. 2. Who hate the good, and love the evil,.... Instead of knowing and doing what was just and right; or, directly contrary to their light and knowledge, and the duty of their office, they hated that which is good, which is agreeable to the law, nature, and will of God, and loved that which is evil, which …
277 wordsSECTION 24Micah 3:3
Micah 3:3 Ver. 3. Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skins from off them,.... Like cannibals, flay them alive, and then eat their flesh: this signifies, as before, devouring their substance, only expressed in terms which still more set forth their savageness, inhumanity, barbarity, and cruelty. So the…
210 wordsSECTION 25Micah 3:4
Micah 3:4 Ver. 4. Then shall they cry unto the Lord, but he will not hear them,.... When all the above evils threatened them in the preceding chapters shall come upon them; when the enemy shall invade their hind, besiege their cities, and take them, and they, their families and substance, just ready to fall into their…
318 wordsSECTION 26Micah 3:5
Micah 3:5 Ver. 5. Thus saith the Lord, concerning the prophets that make my people err,.... The false prophets, as the Targum; and as the description given of them shows; who, instead of directing the people in the right way, as by their office and characters as prophets they should have done, they led them into mista…
349 wordsSECTION 27Micah 3:6
Micah 3:6 Ver. 6. Therefore night [shall be] unto you, that ye shall not have a vision,.... Not that those outward gifts and illuminations, and that prophetic light they had, or seemed to have should be taken away from them, and it should be quite a night with them; because these men were never sent of God, or receive…
384 wordsSECTION 28Micah 3:7
Micah 3:7 Ver. 7. Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded,.... When the events of things will make it most clearly appear to all that their visions, divinations, and prophecies, are false; they will not be able to lift up their heads, or show their faces, but shame and confusion will cover them: …
365 wordsSECTION 29Micah 3:8
Micah 3:8 Ver. 8. But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord,.... Or, "full of power, even, the Spirit of the Lord", as Gussetius {f}, by way of contrast, and as explaining what is meant by power; for so the Spirit is sometimes called from his gifts and graces, which are powerful in men; see Lu 24:47. Thes…
383 wordsSECTION 30Micah 3:9
Micah 3:9 Ver. 9. Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel,.... As an instance of his boldness, courage, and impartiality, he begins with the principal men of the land, and charges them with sins, and reproves for them, and denounces judgments on account of them; See Gi…
146 wordsSECTION 31Micah 3:10
Micah 3:10 Ver. 10. They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. Or, "O thou that buildest up" {g}, &c. or "everyone of them that buildeth up" {h}, &c. for the word is in the singular number; but, be fire words rendered either of these ways, they respect the heads and princes of the people; who either r…
171 wordsSECTION 32Micah 3:11
Micah 3:11 Ver. 11. The heads thereof judge for reward,.... That is, the heads or principal men of Zion and Jerusalem; the kings, or sanhedrim, according to Kimchi; but as this prophecy was delivered in the times of Hezekiah, Jer 26:18, be who was so good a king must be excepted from this charge; perhaps it was delive…
524 wordsSECTION 33Micah 3:12
Micah 3:12 Ver. 12. Therefore shall Zion for your sake be ploughed [as] a field,.... That is, for your sins, as the Targum; for the bloodshed, injustice, and avarice of the princes, priests, and prophets; not that the common people were free from crimes; but these are particularly mentioned, as being ringleaders into …
519 wordsSECTION 34Micah 4:1
Micah 4:1 INTRODUCTION TO MICAH 4 This chapter contains some gracious promises concerning the glory and happiness of the church of Christ in the last days; as of its stability, exaltation, and increase, and of the spread of the Gospel from it, Mic 4:1; and of the peace and security of it, and constant profession and …
1,378 wordsSECTION 35Micah 4:2
Micah 4:2 Ver. 2. And many nations shall come, and say, come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob,.... In Isa 2:3; it is, "many people", &c. the sense is the same; See Gill on Isa 2:3; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths; the teacher is the Ki…
383 wordsSECTION 36Micah 4:3
Micah 4:3 Ver. 3. And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off,.... That are in the most distant parts of the world; not only the isles afar off, but the remotest parts of the continent, the American nations found out since. In Isa 2:4, it is, "and he shall judge among the nations, and shal…
293 wordsSECTION 37Micah 4:4
Micah 4:4 Ver. 4. But they shall sit every man under his vine, and under his fig tree,.... A proverbial phrase, expressive of the greatest tranquillity, security, and enjoyment of property; see 1Ki 4:25; when persons need not keep within their walled towns and cities, and lack themselves up in their houses, but may si…
462 wordsSECTION 38Micah 4:5
Micah 4:5 Ver. 5. For all people will walk everyone in the name of his god,.... Till those times come before described; when many nations and people shall flock to the church, and there shall be such general peace and tranquillity as here promised; till then the nations of the earth shall retain their former religion,…
358 wordsSECTION 39Micah 4:6
Micah 4:6 Ver. 6. In that day, saith the Lord, will I assemble her that halteth,.... The Jews or Israelites so described; not from the halting of Jacob their father, as Abarbinel thinks; nor because of their halting between two opinions, worshipping both the true God and idols, as in the times of Elijah; for this will…
282 wordsSECTION 40Micah 4:7
Micah 4:7 Ver. 7. And I will make her that halted a remnant,.... That is, make a reserve of her, and not utterly cut her off for her halting or sinning; that there may be a seed, a posterity descending from her, that shall serve the Lord, and appear to be a remnant according to the election of grace; which will be the…
264 wordsSECTION 41Micah 4:8
Micah 4:8 Ver. 8. And thou, O tower of the flock,.... The words "Migdal Eder" are left by some untranslated, and think that place to be intended so called, which was near to Bethlehem, Ge 35:19; and perhaps is the same which Jerom {t} calls the tower of Ader, about a mile from Bethlehem: this is supposed to be the pla…
915 wordsSECTION 42Micah 4:9
Micah 4:9 Ver. 9. Now why dost thou cry out aloud?.... Or "cry a cry" {w}; a vehement one, or set up a most lamentable cry, as if no help or hope were to be had, but as in the most desperate condition: here the prophet represents the Jews as if they were already in captivity, and in the utmost distress, and as they ce…
321 wordsSECTION 43Micah 4:10
Micah 4:10 Ver. 10. Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail,.... Bear thy troubles and calamities, sufferings and sorrows, patiently, and expect deliverance from them, as a woman in such circumstances does: or, as some render it in the future, "thou shalt be in pain", &c. {y}…
366 wordsSECTION 44Micah 4:11
Micah 4:11 Ver. 11. Now also many nations are gathered against thee,.... Which is to be understood, not of Sennacherib's army invading Judea, and besieging Jerusalem, in Hezekiah's time; for that was not threshed, as the phrase is afterwards used, or destroyed by the daughter of Zion, but by an angel from heaven: nor …
312 wordsSECTION 45Micah 4:12
Micah 4:12 Ver. 12. But they know not the thoughts of the Lord, neither understand they his counsel,.... Which are very different from theirs: the thoughts and designs of the enemies of Zion, in the times of the Maccabees, were, to destroy utterly the people of God, and root them out of the earth, and abolish their re…
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Micah 4:13 Ver. 13. 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 and weak estate, and are animated and encouraged to exert themselves, and fall upon their enemies, a…
537 wordsSECTION 47Micah 5:1
Micah 5:1 INTRODUCTION TO MICAH 5 This chapter begins with a prophecy of the siege of Jerusalem, Mic 5:1; and then follows another concerning the place of the Messiah's birth, Mic 5:2; and of the case of the Jews, either before or after it, Mic 5:3; and of Christ's office as a shepherd, and of his grandeur in the wor…
631 wordsSECTION 48Micah 5:2
Micah 5:2 Ver. 2. But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah,.... But though Jerusalem should be besieged and taken, and the land of Judea laid waste, yet, before all this should be, the Messiah should be born in Bethlehem, of which this is a prophecy, as is evident from Mt 2:4; the place is called by both the names it went by, to …
2,229 wordsSECTION 49Micah 5:3
Micah 5:3 Ver. 3. Therefore will he give them up,.... Or "notwithstanding", as this particle signifies; see Ho 2:14; though all this shall be, yet, previous to the birth of this person, the Lord would give up the Jews to trouble and distress, and into the hands of their enemies; and the time from this prophet to the b…
878 wordsSECTION 50Micah 5:4
Micah 5:4 Ver. 4. And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord,.... The ruler in Israel, before described and prophesied of; the Messiah, as Kimchi himself interprets it, and other Jewish writers. Kimchi's note is, "after the affliction, the King Messiah shall stand and feed Israel in the strength of the L…
827 wordsSECTION 51Micah 5:5
Micah 5:5 Ver. 5. And this [man] shall be the peace,.... The word man is not in the text, only this; and refers to the person before spoken of, who was to be born in Bethlehem, to be the ruler in Israel, that should stand and feed his people, and should be great to the ends of the earth; and is no other than the Messi…
1,007 wordsSECTION 52Micah 5:6
Micah 5:6 Ver. 6. And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword,.... Or "feed {e} upon it" with the sword, destroy the inhabitants of it; either spiritually subdue the nations of the world to the obedience of Christ, the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; the preaching of the Gospel, the ministry…
1,018 wordsSECTION 53Micah 5:7
Micah 5:7 Ver. 7. And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people,.... The Jews, who will be converted in the latter day, the remnant of them according to the election of grace, as well as all true Israelites, whether Jews or Gentiles, the Lord's chosen and peculiar people; who, though but a small number…
631 wordsSECTION 54Micah 5:8
Micah 5:8 Ver. 8. And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people,.... The same persons are meant here as before; who are compared to dew and showers of rain, because numerous; and full of blessings in themselves, and useful and beneficial to others: and here are said to be as a lion …
411 wordsSECTION 55Micah 5:9
Micah 5:9 Ver. 9. Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries,.... O remnant of Jacob or Israel, as the Targum; the church of God; now will be the time that it shall prevail over all the antichristian states; now will the Christian princes pour out the vials of God's wrath upon them; and they shall feel the s…
1,314 wordsSECTION 56Micah 6:1
Micah 6:1 INTRODUCTION TO MICAH 6 This chapter contains reproofs of the people of Israel for their sins, threatening them with punishment for them. The prophet is bid to tell them of the controversy the Lord had with them, which he did, Mic 6:1; and the Lord calls upon them to declare if they had any thing to object …
761 wordsSECTION 57Micah 6:2
Micah 6:2 Ver. 2. Hear ye, O mountains, the Lord's controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth,.... These are the words of the prophet, obeying the divine command, calling upon the mountains, which are the strong parts of the earth, and the bottoms of them the foundations of it, to hear the Lord's controversy …
212 wordsSECTION 58Micah 6:3
Micah 6:3 Ver. 3. O my people,.... These are the words of the Lord himself by the prophet, expressing his strong affection to the people of Israel, of which his goodness to them was a full proof, and this was an aggravation of their ingratitude to him; they were his people, whom he had chosen for himself above all peo…
358 wordsSECTION 59Micah 6:4
Micah 6:4 Ver. 4. For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt,.... Instead of doing them any wrong, he had done them much good; of which this is one instance, and he was able to produce more: this a notorious, plain, and full proof of his goodness to them, which could not be denied. It may be rendered, as it is by …
453 wordsSECTION 60Micah 6:5
Micah 6:5 Ver. 5. O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted,.... What a scheme he had laid; what contrivances he had formed; what consultations he had with a soothsayer or diviner he sent for to curse Israel; how he sought to get the God of Israel on his side, and to set him against them, that he mig…
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.