Micah 4:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion. ”

Micah 4:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Now also - (And now.) The prophet had already spoken of the future before them, with this word Now. Then, he distinctly prophesied the captivity to Babylon. Twice more he begins anew; as Holy Scr...
Micah 4:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Micah 4:6 to Micah 5:1 . Exile and Restoration: Israel's Victory over the Nations. The reference to the Babylonian exile ( Micah 4:10 ) shows that the passage is not earlier than the sixth centu...
Micah 4:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Now . Meanwhile: as in Micah 4:10 ; Micah 5:1 . Referring to the then immediately impending hostility. many nations. Compare Isaiah 33:3 . Lamentations 2:16 ; Obadiah 1:11-13 . eye. So som...
Micah 4:11 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet’s object here is to give some alleviation to the faithful lest they should succumb under their calamities; for, as we have stated, there were most grievous evils approaching, suffic...
Micah 4:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion. Many nations are gathered against thee - The Chaldeans, who were composed of many nation...
Micah 4:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Let her be defiled— Thou art defiled, and our eye shall behold Sion as a spectacle; that is to say, of scorn.
Micah 4:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion. Now also many nations are gathered against thee - the subject peoples composing B...
Micah 4:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Bright Visions of the Future Micah's view of Israel's future, especially in relation to the nations. He believes that God chose Israel to maintain and teach true religion, and that in this lies Is...
Micah 4:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Let her be defiled. — The seventy-fourth Psalm records the calamity foreseen by the prophet: “They have cast fire into Thy sanctuary, they have defiled ( by casting down ) the dwelling-place of Thy...
Micah 4:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE KING TO COME Micah 4:8 - Micah 5:1-15 WHEN a people has to be purged of long injustice, when some high aim of liberty or of order has to be won, it is remarkable how often the drama of re...
Micah 4:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Promise of Peace Micah 4:1-13 It is not improbable that Isaiah, Micah 2:1-4 , and Micah quoted an older prophecy, which in its fullness, is yet to be fulfilled. In the millennial age Israe...
Micah 4:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

From this scene of a corrupt people governed by corrupt rulers, the prophet lifts his eyes, and looking into the future sees the day when under true government deliverance will be wrought and the div...
Micah 4:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The Church is and ever must be, upon earth, the envy of the carnal world. But, Reader, what a sweet thought it is for you, for me, for all, that when the enemies of Christ and his redeemed seem to tr...
Micah 4:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Now also many nations are gathered against thee ,.... Which is to be understood, not of Sennacherib's army invading Judea, and besieging Jerusalem, in Hezekiah's time; for that was not threshed, as...
Micah 4:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion. Ver. 11. Now also many nations are gathered, &c. ] That is, they shall lie once g...
Micah 4:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Now also The time is at hand; many nations are gathered against thee This may be understood of the Chaldeans and their associates, who pleased themselves with the thoughts of profaning the temple...
Micah 4:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judgments and Mercies. B. C. 726. 8 And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of...
Micah 4:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Now, i.e. ere long, the time is near at hand. Many nations; many for number and great for name, mighty in power, all that were at that time confederate with or feudatory to Sennacherib king of Assy...
Micah 4:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Micah Describes The Coming Tribulations of Judah But Gives the Final Assurance That In The End YHWH Will Triumph ( Micah 4:9-13 ). The near future is seen as bleak. Judah and Jerusalem are seen as...
Micah 4:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES. Micah 4:9 .] Zion will lose her king, wander into captivity, but will be redeemed from her enemies. King ] Loss of royal government, the cause of lamentation, more painful to Isr...
Micah 4:11 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Micah 4:1 . But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and peo...
Micah 4:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Micah 4:1 . In the last days it shall come to pass. In the new times, as in Isaiah 4 ., which Micah had read, and now repeats by the Spirit. In the gospel age the new-testament church, built abov...
Micah 4:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

The Lord shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies The moral regeneration of the world I. The state of mankind requires it. “Is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished?” It was m...
Micah 4:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Micah 4:1-33 § 4. The prophet suddenly announces the future glory of the temple mountain and the ideal happiness of the people Micah 4:1 But . There is no adversative pa...
Micah 4:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Zion Established Throughout the Earth
Micah 4:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 5:25-30 ; Isaiah 8:7 ; Isaiah 8:8 ; Jeremiah 52:4 ; Joel 3:2-15 ; Lamentations 2:15 ; Lamentations 2:16 ; Micah 7:10 ; Obadiah 1:12
Micah 4:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Now — The time is at hand. Defiled — Let her be polluted with blood, and let us enter, sack and destroy her temple and palaces. Look — With delight on her destruction.

Micah 4:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Micah 4:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Micah 4:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Micah 4:11 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Micah 4:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Micah 4:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Micah 4:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Micah 4:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Micah 4:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Micah 4:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Micah 4:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Micah 4:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Micah 4:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Micah 4:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Micah 4:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Micah 4:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Micah 4:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Micah 4:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Micah 4:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Micah 4:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Micah 4:11 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Micah 4:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Micah 4:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

Micah 4:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Micah 4:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Micah 4:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Micah 4:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes