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UMika 1:1
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Micah: Micah 1:14, Micah 1:15, Jeremiah 26:18
Jotham: 2 Chronicles 27:1 - 2 Chronicles 32:33, Isaiah 1:1, Hosea 1:1
which: Amos 1:1, Habakkuk 1:1
concerning: Micah 1:5, Hosea 4:15, Hosea 5:5-14, Hosea 6:10, Hosea 6:11, Hosea 8:14, Hosea 12:1, Hosea 12:2, Amos 2:4-8, Amos 3:1, Amos 3:2, Amos 6:1
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 16:1 - Ahaz 2 Kings 16:20 - Hezekiah 2 Chronicles 28:1 - Ahaz 2 Chronicles 29:1 - Hezekiah Proverbs 25:1 - which Isaiah 2:1 - saw Isaiah 9:8 - sent a word Jeremiah 1:2 - the word Jeremiah 26:17 - Then rose Ezekiel 46:18 - thrust Luke 3:2 - the word
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The word of the Lord that came to Micah the Morasthite,.... So called, either from Mareshah, mentioned Micah 1:15; and was a city in the tribe of Judah, Joshua 15:44; as the Targum, Jarchi, Kimchi, and Zacutus i; or rather from Moresheth, from which Moreshethgath, Micah 1:14; is distinguished; which Jerom k says was in his time a small village in the land of Palestine, near Eleutheropolis. Some think these two cities to be one and the same; but they appear to be different from the account of Jerom l elsewhere. The Arabic version reads it, Micah the son of Morathi; so Cyril, in his commentary on this place, mentions it as the sense of some, that Morathi was the father of the prophet; which can by no means be assented to:
in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah; by which it appears that he was contemporary with Isaiah, Hoses, and Amos, though they began to prophesy somewhat sooner than he, even in the days of Uzziah; very probably he conversed with these prophets, especially Isaiah, with whom he agrees in many things; his style is like his, and sometimes uses the same phrases: he, being of the tribe of Judah, only mentions the kings of that nation most known to him; though he prophesied against Israel, and in the days of Zachariah, Shallum, Menahem, Pekahiah, Pekah, and Hoshea:
which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem; in the vision of prophecy; Samaria was the metropolis of the ten tribes of Israel, and is put for them all; as Jerusalem was of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and is put for them Samaria is mentioned first, because it was the head of the greatest body of people; and as it was the first in transgression, it was the first in punishment.
i Juchashin, fol. 12. 1. k Prolog. in Mic. l Epitaph. Paulae, ut supra. (tom. 1. operum, fol. 60. A. B.)
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The word of the Lord that came to Micah ... which he saw - No two of the prophets authenticate their prophecy in exactly the same way. They, one and all, have the same simple statement to make, that this which they say is from God, and through them. A later hand, had it added the titles, would have formed all upon one model. The title was an essential part of the prophetic book, as indicating to the people afterward, that it was not written after the event. It was a witness, not to the prophet whose name it bears, but to God. The prophet bare witness to God, that what he delivered came from Him. The event bare witness to the prophet, that he said this truly, in that he knew what God alone could know - futurity. Micah blends in one the facts, that he related in words given him by God, what he had seen spread before him in prophetic vision. His prophecy was, in one, “the word of the Lord which came to him,” and “a sight which he saw.”
Micah omits all mention of his father. His great predecessor was known as Micaiah son of Imlah. Micah, a villager, would be known only by the name of his native village. So Nahum names himself “the Elkoshite;” Jonah is related to be a native “of Gath-hepher;” Elijah, the Tishbite, a sojourner in the despised Gilead 1 Kings 17:1; Elisha, of Abelmeholah; Jeremiah, of Anathoth; forerunners of Him, and taught by His Spirit who willed to be born at Bethlehem, and, since this, although too little to be counted “among the thousands of Judah,” was yet a royal city and was to be the birthplace of the Christ, was known only as Jesus of Nazareth, “the Nazarene.” No prophet speaks of himself, or is spoken of, as born at Jerusalem, “the holy city.” They speak of themselves with titles of lowliness, not of greatness.
Micah dates his prophetic office from kings of Judah only, as the only kings of the line appointed by God. Kings of Israel are mentioned in addition, only by prophets of Israel. He names Samaria first, because, its iniquity being most nearly full, its punishment was the nearest.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET MICAH
Chronological Notes relative to this Book
-Year from the Creation, according to Archbishop Usher, 3254.
-Year of the Julian Period, 3964.
-Year since the Flood, 1598.
-Year from the vocation of Abram, 1171.
-Year since the first celebration of the Olympic games in Elis by the Idaei Dactyli, 704.
-Year from the destruction of Troy, according to the general computation of chronologers, 434.
-Year since the commencement of the kingdom of Israel, by the Divine appointment of Saul to the regal dignity, 346.
-Year from the foundation of Solomon's temple, 262.
-Year since the division of Solomon's monarchy into the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, 226.
-Year since the restoration of the Olympic games at Elis by Lycurgus, Iphitus, and Cleosthenes, 135.
-Year from the foundation of the kingdom of Macedon by Caranus, 65.
-Year from the foundation of the kingdom of Lydia by Ardysus, 49.
-All before this reign concerning Lydia is entirely fabulous.
-Year since the conquest of Coroebus at Olympia, usually called the first Olympiad, 27.
-Third year of the seventh Olympiad.
-Year before the building of Rome, according to the Varronian computation, 4.
-Year from the building of Rome, according to Cato and the Fasti Consulares, 3.
-Year from the building of Rome, according to Polybius the historian, 2.
-Year before the building of Rome, according to Fabius Pictor, 2.
-Year before the commencement of the era of Nabonassar, 2.
-Year before the birth of Christ, 746.
-Year before the vulgar era of Christ's nativity, 750.
-Cycle of the Sun, 16.
-Cycle of the Moon, 12.
-Twenty-first year of Theopompus, king of Lacedaemon, of the family of the Proclidae.
-Twenty seventh year of Polydorus, king of Lacedaemon, of the family of the Eurysthenidae.
-Twelfth year of Alyattes, king of Lydia.
-Fifth year of Charops, the first decennial archon of the Athenians.
-Fourth year of Romulus, the first king of the Romans.
-Tenth year of Pekah, king of Israel.
-Ninth year of Jothan, king of Judah.
CHAPTER I
The prophet begins with calling the attention of all people to
the awful descent of Jehovah, coming to execute his judgments
against the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, 1-5;
first against Samaria, whose fate the prophet laments on the
dress of mourners, and with the doleful cries of the fox or
ostrich, 6-8;
and then against Jerusalem, which is threatened with the
invasion of Sennacherib. Other cities of Judah are likewise
threatened; and their danger represented to be so great as to
oblige them to have recourse for protection even to their
enemies the Philistines, from whom they desired at first to
conceal their situation. But all resources are declared to be
vain; Israel and Judah must go into captivity, 9-16.
NOTES ON CHAP. I
Verse Micah 1:1. The word of the Lord that came to Micah the Morasthite — For all authentic particulars relative to this prophet, see the preface.
In the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah — These three kings reigned about threescore years; and Micah is supposed to have prophesied about forty or fifty years; but no more of his prophecies have reached posterity than what are contained in this book, nor is there any evidence that any more was written. His time appears to have been spent chiefly in preaching and exhorting; and he was directed to write those parts only that were calculated to profit succeeding generations.
