Micah 5:11
I will cut off the cities of thy land - So God promised by Zechariah, “Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls; for I will be unto he...
The Purging of Israel. Some modern commentators, e.g. Wellhausen and Nowack, refer this to Micah; if so, it would anticipate the Deuteronomic den...
pluck up . root up, or tear down. thy groves . thine 'Asherahs. App-42. Reference to Pentateuch ( Exodus 34:13 . Deuteronomy 7:5 ; Deuteronomy...
He afterwards subjoins, I will take away thy groves. The groves, we know, formed a part of their idolatry: they are therefore mentioned here...
And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.
And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities. And I will pluck up thy groves ... so will I destroy t...
The Birth of the Messiah 1-5a. Jerusalem is besieged, its ruler insulted by the invader ( Micah 5:1 ). Micah proclaims not only deliverance, but a...
Groves] RV 'asherim': cp. Jdg 317: emblems of idol-worship.
I will pluck up thy groves — i.e. , either the statues, pillars, or trees connected with the worship of Baal and Astarte. Some such statue was pla...
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...
the Deliverer from Bethlehem Micah 5:1-15 This name for Bethlehem recalls Genesis 48:7 . Though insignificant in size she would outshine her c...
Having thus described the coming deliverance, Micah utters the wonderful prophecy concerning the Deliverer and the deliverance under His administrati...
I include all these verses under one reading. They all, according to my view, proclaim the same doctrine, namely, the Lord's promise that the remnant...
And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee ,.... Planted for idolatrous worship, and which the Jews in the reigns of some of their king...
And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities. Ver. 14. And I will pluck up thy groves, &c. ] Wherein...
And I will cut off witchcrafts , &c. Here is foretold the downfall of all unlawful arts and devices, which had been used by the Jews in former a...
The Increase of the Church; Encouraging Predictions. B. C. 720....
I will pluck up thy groves: the groves where some of them abused in downright idolatrous worship, others of them used superstitiously, thus beside...
The Reason Why God Allows The Exile Of His People And Will Yet Cause More Exiles Until The Land Is Empty ( Micah 5:10-15 ). In another oracle (‘sa...
CRITICAL NOTES. Micah 5:10 . Horses] All human resources on which to depend ( Isaiah 2:6-8 ; Psalms 20:7 ). “The Church will never be safe till...
Micah 5:1 . Oh daughter of troops. Of thieves, that is, the Chaldeans, who having robbed all the nations of Asia, came to Jerusalem, and robbed th...
I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee God’s depriving dispensation towards men Here the Almighty is represented as taking away fr...
EXPOSITION Micah 5:1-33 § 8 . After Zion ' s degradation Messiah shall be born, and shall bring the world into subjection. Micah 5:1...
The Person and the Rule of Messiah. Having described the conditions and circumstances under which the period of Messianic glory would be establish...
And I will pluck up thy groves, those devoted to idolatrous purposes, out of the midst of thee; so will I destroy thy cities, namely, as fortresses...
Thy groves — The groves which they abused by idolatrous worship.
14 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.f