Micah 1:12

1 Samuel 4:13; Amos 3:6; Isaiah 45:7; Isaiah 59:9-11; Jeremiah 14:19; Jeremiah 8:15; Job 30:26; Micah 1:9; Ruth 1:20

Related Commentaries of Micah 1:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the inhabitant of Maroth - (bitterness) waited carefully for good She waited carefully for the good which God gives, not for the Good which G...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the (m) gate of Jerusalem. (m) For Rabshakeh had shut...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Maroth waited carefully. The inhabitress of Bitter town bitterly grieved for her goods [taken from her]. evil . calamity. Hebrew. ra'a'. App-44...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet joins here another city even Maroth, and others also in the following verses. But in this verse he says, that Maroth would be in so...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem. The inhabitant of Maroth - There...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For the inhabitant of Maroth waited, &c.— For she who dwelleth in Maroth is sick even to death; because evil came down, &c. See 2 Kings...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem. For the inhabitant of Ma...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

For the inhabitant , etc.] RM 'for the inhabitant of Maroth is in travail (labour) for good, because evil is come down.' This fresh bitterness gives...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Waited carefully. — There are various ways of arriving at the interpretation of the words, but the result is the same. The people of Maroth were in...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good ,.... Or, "though [they] waited for good" r; expected to have it, yet the reverse befell them...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem. Ver. 12. For the inhabitant o...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judgments Predicted. B. C. 743. 8 Th...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

For; yet, or certainly, as the Hebrew particle is often to be rendered. The inhabitant; one put for all, because all should fare alike. Maroth:...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Verse 1:1-2:13 Part I. THREATENINGS AND JUDGMENTS ON ISRAEL AND JUDAH , WITH PREDICTION OF EVENTUAL DELIVERA...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Lamentation Over Judah's Chastisement
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

For the inhabitants of Maroth (bitterness). waited carefully for good, being anxiously and bitterly concerned about it, writhing in grief and pain...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Maroth — A town in Judea. But evil — The flood of affliction by the Assyrian, swallowed up other cities, and swelled even to the head city, Jerusal...

¹² For the inhabitantc of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.

Related Commentaries of Micah 1:12

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

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole 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 Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Micah 1:12