Micah 5:14

And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Purging of Israel. Some modern commentators, e.g. Wellhausen and Nowack, refer this to Micah; if so, it would anticipate the Deuteronomic den...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

pluck up . root up, or tear down. thy groves . thine 'Asherahs. App-42. Reference to Pentateuch ( Exodus 34:13 . Deuteronomy 7:5 ; Deuteronomy...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

He afterwards subjoins, I will take away thy groves. The groves, we know, formed a part of their idolatry: they are therefore mentioned here...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Groves] RV 'asherim': cp. Jdg 317: emblems of idol-worship.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Having thus described the coming deliverance, Micah utters the wonderful prophecy concerning the Deliverer and the deliverance under His administrati...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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

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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Increase of the Church; Encouraging Predictions. B. C. 720....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I will pluck up thy groves: the groves where some of them abused in downright idolatrous worship, others of them used superstitiously, thus beside...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

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...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Person and the Rule of Messiah. Having described the conditions and circumstances under which the period of Messianic glory would be establish...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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

Related Commentaries of Micah 5:14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the 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 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 5:14