Micah 2:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The womend of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever. ”

Micah 2:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses - (literally, from her pleasant house,) each from her home. These were probably the widows of those whom they had stripped. Sinc...
Micah 2:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away (k) my glory for ever. (k) That is, their substance and living, which is God's blessing, an...
Micah 2:9 - 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 2:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

for ever: i.e. not to be restored for the rest of their lives.
Micah 2:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Micah 2:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever. The women of my people - Ye are the cause of the women and their children...
Micah 2:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

From their children, &c.— "Because, when ye plunder their houses, ye take away their children, and sell them to strangers and idolaters; and they are no longer esteemed my children, because the...
Micah 2:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever. The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant house...
Micah 2:9 - 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 2:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The women of my people. — They spared not even the widows and fatherless, the objects of God’s tender care.
Micah 2:9 - 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 2:9 - 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 2:9 - 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 2:9 - 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 2:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 th...
Micah 2:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever. Ver. 9. The women of my people ] Or, the wives; once wives, but now wi...
Micah 2:9 - 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 2:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Expostulation with the House of Jacob; The Sin and Punishment of Oppression. B. C. 740. 6 Pr...
Micah 2:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The women; the poor disconsolate widows, whose husbands you had first slain with the sword of war, or unjustly condemned to death; or else the wives of husbands whom you had oppressed, and by perve...
Micah 2:9 - 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 2:9 - 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 2:9 - 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 2:9 - 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 2:9 - 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 2:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Expulsion of the Leaders and Restoration Of The Lord's People
Micah 2:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 26:19 ; 2 Corinthians 3:18 ; 2 Corinthians 4:6 ; Ezekiel 39:21 ; Habakkuk 2:14 ; Joel 3:6 ; Luke 20:47 ; Micah 2:2 ; Mark 12:40 ; Matthew 23:14 ; Psalms 72:19 ; Zechariah 2:5
Micah 2:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The women — The widows. Of my people — Of Israelites, not strangers, that were by peculiar provision from God's law, to be tenderly dealt with, Exodus 22:22 . Cast out — You have turned out of the...

Micah 2:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Micah 2:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Micah 2:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Micah 2:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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

Micah 2:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Micah 2:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Micah 2:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Micah 2:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Micah 2:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Micah 2:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Micah 2:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Micah 2:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Micah 2:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Micah 2:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Micah 2:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Micah 2:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Micah 2:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Micah 2:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Micah 2:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Micah 2:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Micah 2:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Micah 2:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

Micah 2:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Micah 2:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Micah 2:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Micah 2:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes