Micah 2:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame. ”

Micah 2:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy; they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame - The words are very emphatic in Hebrew, from their briefness, “Prophesy not; they...
Micah 2:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(d) Prophesy ye not, [say they to them that] prophesy: (e) they shall not prophesy to them, [that] they shall not take shame. (d) Thus the people warn the prophets that they speak to them no more, f...
Micah 2:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Social Injustice and its Penalty. The prophet denounces those for whom might is right ( Psalms 36:4 ; and work evil seems a thoughtless scribal addition), who acquire property by illegal or inequit...
Micah 2:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Prophesy . Do not sputter. say they to them that prophesy . so they sputter. they shall not prophesy. Not the usual word for prophesy, but Hebrew. nataph. they: i.e. these false prophets....
Micah 2:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Here the conciseness of the expressions has made interpreters to differ in their views. Some read thus, Distill ye not, — they will distill; that is, the Jews speak against the prophets,...
Micah 2:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame. Prophesy ye not - Do not predict any more evils - we have as many as we can bear....
Micah 2:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Prophesy ye not, &c.— Prophesy ye not:—Yet they will prophesy. At least prophesy not these things: The boundaries of the kingdom shall not be removed, Micah 2:7 . For thus saith the house o...
Micah 2:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame. Prophesy ye not, say they - namely, the Israelites say to the true prophets,...
Micah 2:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Sins that Bring Ruin Micah 2:3 , as dealing with the same subject, should be read together. Micah now enumerates the sins which must bring punishment on Judah. He inveighs bitterly against t...
Micah 2:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Prophesy ye not. — The construction of this verse is very confused, but the intention of it is fairly clear. It contains the address of the oppressors to the true prophets, and their reply. The opp...
Micah 2:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE PROPHET OF THE POOR Micah 2:1-13 ; Micah 3:1-12 WE have proved Micah's love for his countryside in the effusion of his heart upon her villages with a grief for their danger greater than hi...
Micah 2:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Harvest of Greed and Injustice Micah 2:1-13 Micah 1:1-16 dealt with sins against the first table of the law; this deals with those against the second . Evil must sooner or later befall...
Micah 2:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Following this the prophet states the cause of the imminent judgment. The sin consists in devising evil at night and practicing it in the morning, and the abuse of authority. Covetousness, expressing...
Micah 2:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

When we consider the Lord's dealings with Israel, we cannot sufficiently lament their depravity. Other nations of the earth, which knew not the Lord, we behold with a different aspect to that of the...
Micah 2:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 spe...
Micah 2:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Prophesy ye not, [say they to them that] prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, [that] they shall not take shame. Ver. 6. Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy ] Prodigious impudence...
Micah 2:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

In that day shall one take up a parable Shall use a figurative speech, against you A parable signifies a speech out of the ordinary way, as the Greek word παροιμια imports, and illustrated with m...
Micah 2:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Expostulation with the House of Jacob; The Sin and Punishment of Oppression. B. C. 740. 6 Pr...
Micah 2:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Prophesy ye not; it is manifest that our version here intends this as an interdict, or prohibition, laid upon the true prophets, whose hearers were so far from amending and turning unto God in comp...
Micah 2:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Sins Which Have Brought Judah's Calamity On It ( Micah 2:1-11 ). These prophecies would have been spoken well before the scenes previously depicted, which from the point of view of this chapte...
Micah 2:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] Micah 2:6 . Prophesy ] Lit. to drip, to cause words to flow, prophesying ( Amos 7:16 ). “The people, the false prophets, the politicians, forbade God and Micah to prophesy. Pr...
Micah 2:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Micah 2:1 . Woe to them that devise iniquity they covet fields, and take them by violence. The jubilee was the happiest law that ever favoured a nation; but the rabbins confess that before the cap...
Micah 2:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Micah 2:1-33 § 6. The prophet justifies his threat by recounting the sins of which the grandees and guilty. Micah 2:1 The prophet, himself one of the people, first inveig...
Micah 2:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Denunciation of the Prevalent Evils
Micah 2:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 2:15 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:16 ; Acts 4:17 ; Acts 5:28 ; Acts 5:40 ; Acts 7:51 ; Amos 2:12 ; Amos 7:13 ; Amos 8:11-13 ; Ezekiel 20:46 ; Ezekiel 21:2 ; Ezekiel 3:26 ; Isaiah...
Micah 2:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

They shall not prophesy — So God doth in his displeasure grant their desire. Take shame — That will not take shame to themselves.

Micah 2:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Micah 2:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Micah 2:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Micah 2:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Micah 2:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Micah 2:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Micah 2:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Micah 2:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Micah 2:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Micah 2:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Micah 2:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Micah 2:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Micah 2:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Micah 2:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Micah 2:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Micah 2:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Micah 2:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Micah 2:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Micah 2:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Micah 2:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Micah 2:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Micah 2:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Micah 2:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Micah 2:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Micah 2:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Micah 2:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes