Bible Commentary

Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls. 8 16. Micah’s Lamentation 8. Therefore I will wail ] Such exuberance of emotion specially characterizes the Jews and the Arabs; it reminds us of the Homeric heroes. The prophets … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Micah 1:8”

And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered [it] of the hire of a harlot, and they shall return to the hire of a harlot. 7. the hires ] … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Micah 1:7”

Therefore I will make Samaria as a heap of the field, [and] as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof. 6. as a heap ] Rather, into a heap (i.e. into ruins). as plantings of a vineyard ] Rather, into … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Micah 1:6”

For the transgression of Jacob [is] all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What [is] the transgression of Jacob? [is it] not Samaria? and what [are] the high places of Judah? [are they] not Jerusalem? 5. The cause of this awful manifestation the sin of Samaria and Jerusalem. Jacob ] A … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Micah 1:5”

And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, [and] as the waters [that are] poured down a steep place. 4. the mountains shall be molten ] The figure is that of a storm, but no ordinary storm. Lightning descends, and dissolves the very mountains, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Micah 1:4”

For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. 3. cometh forth out of his place ] Two persons may use the same expressions in very different senses. Heathen poets imagined that divine beings ‘came forth’ and mingled in the strife … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Micah 1:3”

Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple. 2 7. The Threat of Punishment 2. all ye people ] Rather peoples. God’s judgment upon the world is now in progress (comp. Isa 3:13-14; Isa 34:1-5), and … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Micah 1:2”

The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1. Heading (see Introduction) 1. Micah the Morasthite ] i.e. Micah of Moresheth-gath (see Mic 1:14). which he … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Micah 1:1”

And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and [also] much cattle? 11. that cannot discern &c. ] The idea that the whole population of Nineveh is thus described, the reference being to their moral condition … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jonah 4:11”

Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not labored, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: 10. for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow ] The principle on which the contrast implied by these … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jonah 4:10”