But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
Almost identical with Isaiah 2:2-4, which is derived from Micah, not vice versa. In Micah the prophecy stands in closest connection with the context. He had said, "The mountains of the house shall be as the high places of the forest" (Micah 3:12). Here he foretells the reversal of the sentence in the last days. He had said, "Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps." Now he declares, "The law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem." In Isaiah the prophecy is not so connected with the preceding context, which proves that Micah's introduction of it is the original.
The mountain of the house of the Lord - which just before (Micah 3:12) had been doomed to be a wild forest-height. Under Messiah its elevation is to be, not that of situation, but of moral dignity, as the seat of God's universal empire.
Shall be established in the top of the mountains. The Hebrew х naakown (H3559)] means, shall be abidingly established.
And people shall flow unto it. In Isaiah it is "all nations:" a more universal, as being the later prophecy.
Verse 3. And he shall judge among, many people, and rebuke - convict of sin (John 16:8-9, "And when he (the Spirit, the Comforter) is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment; of sin, because they believe not on me"); and subdue with judgments (Psalms 2:5; Psalms 2:9; Psalms 110:5-6; Revelation 2:27; Revelation 12:5, "She brought forth a man-child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron").
He shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks. This implies the reversal of the sentence to be executed by the enemy upon the people of God, "Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears." Christ's kingdom of peace shall supersede the wars wherewith Judah and Israel have been visited for their sins. In Isaiah 2:4 it is, "the nations ... many people.