Micah 2:9

The women of my people. — They spared not even the widows and fatherless, the objects of God’s tender care.

Related Commentaries of 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 probabl...
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...
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 add...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

for ever: i.e. not to be restored for the rest of their lives.
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...
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...
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 th...
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...
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 p...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

My glory ] i.e. their inheritance in the holy land. The prophet implies that women and children are being sold into foreign captivity.
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 vill...
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 agai...
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, an...
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 hi...
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...
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...
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....
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Expostulation with the House of Jacob; The Sin and Punishment of Oppression. B. C. 740...
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 wive...
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 dep...
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 o...
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 n...
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 Ah...
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 Th...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Expulsion of the Leaders and Restoration Of The Lord's People
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The women of My people, the unprotected widows, have ye cast out from their pleasant houses, the houses of their delight, to which they were attach...
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 ;...
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, Ex...

⁹ The womend of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.

Related Commentaries of Micah 2:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Micah 2:9