Micah 2:8-9 KJV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Micah 2:6-11

Here are two sins charged upon the people of Israel, and judgments denounced against them for each, such judgments as exactly answer the sin?persecuting God's prophets and oppressing God's poor. I. Persecuting God's prophets, suppressing and silencing them, is a sin that provokes God as much as anything, for it not only spits in the face of his authority over us, but spurns at the bowels of his mercy to us; for his sending prophets to us is a sure and valuable token of his goodwill. Now... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 2:8

Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy ,.... Or "yesterday" F15 אתמול "heri", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Burkius. ; 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 their brethren, those of the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin; as they did in the times of Pekah... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 2:9

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 to, the people of Israel carried captive of their brethren two hundred thousand women, and brought them to Samaria, 2 Chronicles 28:8 . Some understand this of divorce, which those men were... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 2:8

My people is risen up as an enemy - Ye are not only opposed to me, but ye are enemies to each other. Ye rob and spoil each other. Ye plunder the peaceable passenger; depriving him both of his upper and under garment; ye pull off the robe from those who, far from being spoilers themselves, are averse from war. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 2:9

The women of my people - Ye are the cause of the women and their children being carried into captivity - separated from their pleasant habitations, and from my temple and ordinances - and from the blessings of the covenant, which it is my glory to give, and theirs to receive. These two verses may probably relate to the war made on Ahaz by Rezin, king of Syria, and Pekah, king of Israel. They fell suddenly upon the Jews; killed in one day one hundred and twenty thousand, and took two hundred... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 2:8

Verse 8 As the words of the Prophet are concise, they contain some obscurity. Hence interpreters differ. First, as to the word אתמיל, atmul, some think it to be one word, others divide it into את, at and מול, mul, which means, over against, opposite; and they regard it of the same import with ממול, which immediately follows. But as the repetition would be frigid, the Prophet no doubt intended that it should be taken here in its proper sense, and its meaning is yesterday. But this time is not... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 2:9

Verse 9 He proceeds with the same subject, that they refrained from no acts of injustice. It was indeed a proof of extreme barbarity not to spare women and children, for they are both weak and helpless. Their sex exempts women from violence, and their age, children. (88) Even in wars, women, and also children, escape in safety. We hence see that the Prophet, by stating a part for the whole, proves here that the people had addicted themselves to cruelty really barbarous; they were not restrained... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 2:1-11

Delineations of deep transgression, righteous retribution, and Divine equity. We have in these verses three pictures, drawn by a master hand, and very suggestive of practical teaching. I. A PICTURE OF DEEP TRANSGRESSION . ( Micah 2:1 , Micah 2:2 , Micah 2:8 , Micah 2:9 .) Observe delineated in it: 1 . The abuse of privilege . ( Micah 2:1 .) What a boon is night! "The season of repose; the blessed barrier betwixt day and day," when the hum and bustle, the anxiety... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 2:6-11

§ 7. The threat announced in Micah 2:3 is further vindicated and applied to individual sinners, with a glance at the false prophets who taught the people to love lies. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 2:8

Even of late; but of late; literally, yesterday , implying an action recent and repeated. Septuagint, ἔμπροσθεν , "before;" Vulgate, e contrario. The prophet exemplifies the iniquity which has led God to punish. They are not old offences which the Lord is visiting, but sins of recent and daily occurrence. My people is risen up as an enemy. A reading, varying by a letter or two, is rendered, "But against my people one setteth himself." But them is no valid reason for altering the... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Micah 2:6-11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 2:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 2:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 2:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 2:9

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 2:8

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 2:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 2:1-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 2:6-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 2:8

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