Micah 7:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

he. one. But. special various reading called Sevir (App-34), reads "they": i.e. thine exiles. come. come home; as in 1 Samuel 11:5.Psalms 45:15.Proverbs 2:10, or, into blessing; as in Psalms 69:27. Nothing has "fallen out" of the text!

Assyria. See the "enemy", Micah 7:10.

the fortified cities. the cities of Matzor (i.e. the fortress) put for Egypt. Compare Isaiah 19:6. Isa 19:37.

the river. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Genus), App-6, for the Euphrates. Also the Figure of speech Antonomasia.

Micah 7:12

12 In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.