Micah 2:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Even of latec my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war. ”

Micah 2:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Even of late - (Literally, yesterday.) Jerome: “He imputeth not past sins, but those recent and, as it were, of yesterday.” “My people is risen up vehemently”. God upbraideth them tenderly by the...
Micah 2:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Even (h) of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the (i) robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war. (h) That is, in past times. (i) The poor can ha...
Micah 2:8 - 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 2:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Even of late . Only yesterday, or recently: this highway robbery was. new and recent evil.
Micah 2:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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,...
Micah 2:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war. My people is risen up as an enemy - Ye are not only oppos...
Micah 2:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ye pull off the robe, &c.— Having taken away the garment, you plunder the robe also. They who travel securely are carried away as captives in war. Houbigant.
Micah 2:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war. Even of late - literally yesterday: 'long ago.' S...
Micah 2:8 - 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 2:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ye pull off the robe. — Micah dwells upon the continued rapacity of the people. They robbed the quiet inoffensive traveller of both outer and inner garment; they took away both “cloke” and “coat.”...
Micah 2:8 - 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 2:8 - 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 2:8 - 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 2:8 - 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 2:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
Micah 2:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war. Ver. 8. Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy...
Micah 2:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Of late my people is risen up as an enemy AGAINST ME is to be here understood, namely, against God; for this is still spoken in the person of God. The sense is more evident in the Hebrew than in ou...
Micah 2:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Expostulation with the House of Jacob; The Sin and Punishment of Oppression. B. C. 740. 6 Pr...
Micah 2:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This verse to me seems to be designed as a proof of the perverseness and iniquity of this people, and consequently a justifying of God, and his prophet, threatening severity against them: they flatte...
Micah 2:8 - 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 2:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] Micah 2:8 . Late ] Lit. yesterday = not long since; or again, recently, the people stood up, took an hostile attitude. Pull off ] Not content with the outer garment, they rob...
Micah 2:8 - 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 2:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

My people is risen up as an enemy Sin an antagonist This chapter refers to the character and doings of Israel during the last nine years of Ahaz. A very dark period in Israelitish history was...
Micah 2:8 - 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 2:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Expulsion of the Leaders and Restoration Of The Lord's People
Micah 2:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 28:5-8 ; 2 Chronicles 28:8 ; 2 Samuel 20:19 ; Isaiah 9:21 ; Psalms 120:6 ; Psalms 120:7 ; Psalms 55:20
Micah 2:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Is risen up — They have risen up, Israel against Judah, and Judah against Israel, and of late the tribes have conspired against one another; subjects against their kings, and great ones against the...

Micah 2:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Micah 2:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Micah 2:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Micah 2:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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

Micah 2:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Micah 2:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Micah 2:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Micah 2:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Micah 2:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Micah 2:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Micah 2:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Micah 2:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Micah 2:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Micah 2:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Micah 2:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Micah 2:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Micah 2:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Micah 2:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Micah 2:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Micah 2:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Micah 2:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Micah 2:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Micah 2:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Micah 2:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Micah 2:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Micah 2:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes