Micah 2:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly? ”

Micah 2:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O thou that art named the house of Jacob - As Isaiah says, “Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel - which make mention of the God of Israel, not in truth, nor in...
Micah 2:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

O [thou that art] named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? (f) [are] these his doings? do not my words do good to him (g) that walketh uprightly? (f) Are these your works acco...
Micah 2:7 - 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 2:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Jacob. See notes on Genesis 32:28 ; Genesis 43:6 ; Genesis 45:26 ; Genesis 45:28 . is the Spirit, &c. ? Reference to Pentateuch ( Numbers 11:23 , the same word). App-92. Spirit. Hebre...
Micah 2:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet now reproves the Israelites with greater severity, because they attempted to impose a law on God and on his prophets and would not endure the free course of instruction. He told us...
Micah 2:7 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1204 BENEFITS ARISING FROM THE WORD OF GOD Micah 2:7 . Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly? GREAT and bitter prejudices are often entertained against the word of G...
Micah 2:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly? Is the Spirit of the Lord straitened?...
Micah 2:7 - 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 2:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly? O thou that art named The house of...
Micah 2:7 - 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 2:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Is the spirit of the Lord straitened? — In this verse the prophet expostulates with the people who are the people of the Lord, the house of Jacob, in name only. The Spirit of the Lord, who changeth...
Micah 2:7 - 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 2:7 - 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 2:7 - 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 2:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Do not forget, Reader, nor overlook the sweet feature of grace here appearing. Though unworthy, degenerate, and fallen, still Jacob is reminded of his name, and called upon to recollect, that Him wit...
Micah 2:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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,...
Micah 2:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

O [thou that art] named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? [are] these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly? Ver. 7. O thou that art named the h...
Micah 2:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

O thou that art named The house of Jacob But dost not act suitably to the piety of thy father Jacob, and therefore, though thou art in name, yet not in truth the genuine seed of Jacob. Is the Spir...
Micah 2:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Expostulation with the House of Jacob; The Sin and Punishment of Oppression. B. C. 740. 6 Pr...
Micah 2:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Named; you are in name, not in truth, you call yourselves, and would be called by others, the seed and posterity of Jacob. The house of Jacob; you glory in Jacob, whom God blessed, guided, and pr...
Micah 2:7 - 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 2:7 - 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 2:7 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Micah 2:7 I. Consider the promise of the Pentecost. There was (i) the promise of a Divine Spirit by symbols which express some, at all events, of the characteristics and wonderfulness of His work....
Micah 2:7 - 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 2:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the Spirit of the Lord straitened? The criminality and folly of limiting the Holy Spirit 1. Amongst the numerous instances in which Christians condu...
Micah 2:7 - 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 2:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

O thou that art named the house of Jacob, the people who still considered themselves the covenant nation, is the Spirit of the Lord straitened, impatient? Did He not exercise patience and long-suff...
Micah 2:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 6:12 ; 2 Timothy 3:5 ; Hosea 14:9 ; Isaiah 48:1 ; Isaiah 48:2 ; Isaiah 50:2 ; Isaiah 58:1 ; Isaiah 59:1 ; Isaiah 59:2 ; Jeremiah 15:16 ; Jeremiah 2:4 ; John 8:39 ; Micah 3:...
Micah 2:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

That art named — You are in name, not in truth, the seed of Jacob. Straitened — The power, wisdom, and kindness of God is not less now than formerly. Are these — Are these severe proceedings the do...

Micah 2:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Micah 2:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Micah 2:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Micah 2:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Micah 2:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Micah 2:7 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Micah 2:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Micah 2:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Micah 2:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Micah 2:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Micah 2:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Micah 2:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Micah 2:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Micah 2:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Micah 2:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Micah 2:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Micah 2:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Micah 2:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Micah 2:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Micah 2:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Micah 2:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Micah 2:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Micah 2:7 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Micah 2:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Micah 2:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

Micah 2:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Micah 2:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Micah 2:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Micah 2:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes