2 Samuel 1:20; Amos 5:13; Amos 6:10; Jeremiah 6:26; Job 2:8; Joshua 18:23; Lamentations 3:29
Tell it not in Gath - Gath had probably now ceased to be; at least, to be of any account . It shows how David’s elegy lived in the hearts of Juda...
Declare ye [it] not at (h) Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of (i) Aphrah roll thyself in the dust. (h) Lest the Philistines our enemies rejoi...
The Dirge on Israel's Downfall. This is a difficult and corrupt passage, playing on the names of towns and villages which are chosen for their asso...
Declare ye it not at Gath. Compare 2 Samuel 1:20 . Gath. Now Tell es Safi ( Joshua 11:22 , &c). at all. Hebrew. bakko, written defe...
The Prophet seems here to be inconsistent with himself: for he first describes the calamity that was to be evident to all; but now he commands...
Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust. Declare ye it not at Gath - Do not let this predict...
In the house of Aphrah roll, &c.— Roll thyself in dust, in the very house of Aphrah, or dust. The word עפרה aphrah, has here a double sen...
Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust. Declare ye it not at Gath - on the borders of...
Judgment on Samaria and Judah Sargon destroyed Samaria, the capital of North Israel, 722 or 721. Micah, about 720 b.c., declaring ( Micah 1:6 ) th...
At Gath ] cp. 2 Samuel 1:20 . In both cases the meaning is, 'Let us in our defeat be spared the malicious glee of our foes.' There is a word-play i...
Declare ye it not at Gath. — The prophet lets his lament flow after the strain of David’s elegy, “Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the street...
MICAH THE MORASTHITE Micah 1:1-16 SOME time in the reign of Hezekiah, when the kingdom of Judah was still inviolate, but shivering to the shock...
God's Witness against His Chosen Micah 1:1-16 Micah was contemporary with Isaiah and Hosea. Jeremiah quotes from him. Compare Micah 3:12 and...
The first message of Micah consists of a summons, a proclamation of Jehovah, and a prophetic message based on the proclamation. This division ends wi...
I do not trespass on the Reader with observations on what is here said; it is sufficient to remark, that the Prophet is speaking of the low estate of...
Declare ye [it] not at Gath ,.... A city of the Philistines, put for all the rest: the phrase is borrowed from 2 Samuel 1:20 ; where the reason is...
Declare ye [it] not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust. Ver. 10. Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not...
Declare ye it not in Gath Lest the Philistines triumph. The words seem to be taken out of David s lamentation over Saul and Jonathan, 2 Samuel 1:2...
Judgments Predicted. B. C. 743. 8 Th...
Declare ye it not at Gath; do what you can to keep your griefs to yourselves, let them not be public, that the Philistines, your bitter enemies, sh...
A Lament For The Cities of Judah ( Micah 1:10-16 ). These cities lay in the path of Sennacherib as he advanced on Jerusalem after defeating the Eg...
CRITICAL NOTES . Micah 1:10 .] The Prophet thinks now of the malicious joy of heathen neighbours. Ten places are mentioned in Micah 1:10-15 t...
Micah 1:1 . Micah the Morasthite, alluding to a village in the tribe of Judah, near the city of Eleuthera, which distinguishes him from the prophe...
EXPOSITION Verse 1:1-2:13 Part I. THREATENINGS AND JUDGMENTS ON ISRAEL AND JUDAH , WITH PREDICTION OF EVENTUAL DELIVERA...
Lamentation Over Judah's Chastisement
Declare ye it not in Gath, one of the chief cities of the Philistines, weep ye not at all, lest the message cause these enemies to rejoice; in the...
Declare ye it not — Lest the Philistines triumph. Weep ye not — Make no public weeping. Aphrah — This was farther from the Philistines. Roll thysel...
10 Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrahb roll thyself in the dust.