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**The word of the LORD.** The only occurrence of this expression in this book: bidding us to receive it from Jehovah, not Micah, and to note Micah's pen but Jehovah's words.
**the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 .
**Micah** = Who is like Jehovah? An abbreviated form of *Micaiah* ([2 Chronicles 18:7](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/18/7) , &c.); it is used in [Jeremiah 26:18](../../../kjv/jeremiah/26/18) (in the Heb). Compare [Micah 7:18](../../../kjv/micah/7/18) .
**Morasthite:** Mareshah ([Micah 1:15](../../../kjv/micah/1/15) ) or Moresheth-gath ([Micah 1:14](../../../kjv/micah/1/14) ); now *Tel Sandahanna,* in the Shephelah, or plain, between Judea and Philistia. In the excavations at Sandahanna the ancient name is seen as *Marissa. Marissa* was a Sidonian colony (cent. 3 B. C), and was afterward used as the capital of' Idumea by the Edomites during the captivity of Judah (see *Records of the Past,* vol. iv, part x, pp. 291-306).
**which he saw.** Compare [Isaiah 1:1](../../../kjv/isaiah/1/1) .[Obadiah 1:1](../../../kjv/obadiah/1/1) .[Nahum 1:1](../../../kjv/nahum/1/1) .
**concerning, &c.** This furnishes the subject.

**Hear, all ye people.** Micah begins by taking up the concluding words of the other Micah or Micaiah ([1 Kings 22:28](../../../kjv/1-kings/22/28) ), and recurs to them in [Micah 3:1](../../../kjv/micah/3/1) , [Micah 3:9](../../../kjv/micah/3/9) ; [Micah 6:1](../../../kjv/micah/6/1) , [Micah 6:2](../../../kjv/micah/6/2) . Five times, not three, as some say; and forms no part of the Structure of the whole book. Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 32:1](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/1) ). App-92 .
**all ye** = ye peoples, all of them.
**people** = peoples. Including ourselves.
**all that therein is** = her fullness.
**let the Lord GOD be witness.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Genesis 31:50](../../../kjv/genesis/31/50) ).
**the Lord.** Hebrew Adonai. App-4 .
**GOD** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 .
**the LORD*.** One of the 134 places where the *Sopherim* say they altered "Jehovah" of the primitive text to "Adonai". See App-32 .
**from His holy temple.** Compare [Psalms 11:4](../../../kjv/psalms/11/4) .[Jonah 2:7](../../../kjv/jonah/2/7) . [Habakkuk 2:20](../../../kjv/habakkuk/2/20) .
**holy.** See note on [Exodus 3:5](../../../kjv/exodus/3/5) .

**behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos.* App-6 .
**tread upon, &c.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 32:13](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/13) ; [Deuteronomy 33:29](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/33/29) ). App-92 . Compare [Amos 4:13](../../../kjv/amos/4/13) .

**the mountains, &c.** This verse foretells the calamities of [2 Kings 17](../../../kjv/2-kings/17) and 25.

**transgression** = rebellion. Hebrew. *pasha'.* App-44 .
**sins.** Hebrew. *chata'.* App-44 . Aram, and Syriac read singular.
**What** = Whose.
**is it not Samaria?** = is it not Samaria's [idolatry]? Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 .
**high places.** Compare [1 Kings 12:31](../../../kjv/1-kings/12/31) ; [1 Kings 14:23](../../../kjv/1-kings/14/23) .[Ezekiel 6:6](../../../kjv/ezekiel/6/6) . These existed in Jerusalem ([Jeremiah 32:35](../../../kjv/jeremiah/32/35) ); hence the mention of them in the further question. Figure of speech *Erotesis.* Compare [2 Kings 16:4](../../../kjv/2-kings/16/4) .
**are they not Jerusalem?** = is it not Jerusalem's [idol altars]?

**discover, &c.** This has now recently (1911) been done in the unearthing of Ahab's wine-cellars.

**graven images.** Hebrew. *pesilim.* Reference to Pentateuch ([Exodus 20:4](../../../kjv/exodus/20/4) ). App-92 .
**hires.** The technical Pentateuchal word for a harlot's hire, to which idolatry is compared. Compare [Hosea 8:9](../../../kjv/hosea/8/9) , [Hosea 8:10](../../../kjv/hosea/8/10) ; [Hosea 9:1](../../../kjv/hosea/9/1) . Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 23:18](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/23/18) ). App-92 .
**they shall return, &c.:** i.e. the wealth gained by idolatry shall be taken away by the Assyrian idolaters.

**wail** = lament. Compare the Structure above; and note weight of the prophetic "burden".
**dragons** = jackals.
**owls.** Hebrew daughters of a doleful cry.

**wound** = stroke. Hebrew. *makkah* (feminine)
**it.** Aramaean and Syriac read "she". Referring to her stroke, which is feminine.
**he** = he, referring to some unnamed foe. Aram, and Syriac read "she", referring to the "stroke" of judgment.
**the gate.** Compare [Obadiah 1:11](../../../kjv/obadiah/1/11) , [Obadiah 1:13](../../../kjv/obadiah/1/13) .

**Declare ye it not at Gath.** Compare [2 Samuel 1:20](../../../kjv/2-samuel/1/20) .
**Gath.** Now *Tell es Safi* ([Joshua 11:22](../../../kjv/joshua/11/22) , &c).
**at all.** Hebrew. *bakko,* written *defectively* for *beakko.* Note the Figure of speech *Paronomasia* ( App-6 ). Hebrew. *bakko 'al tibku* "[in] Weep-town *weep* not".
**in . . . Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.** Note the Figure of speech *Paronomasia* ( App-6 ). Hebrew in *'aphrah . . . 'aphar,* English, "in *Dust-house* roll thyself in *dust,* "

**Pass ye away:** i.e. go into exile.
**Saphir, having thy shame, &c.** Here we have contrast. Saphir = Beautytown, with beauty shamed; now *es Suafir.*
**inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth.** Hebrew not gone forth hath . . . Zaanan. Hebrew Figure of speech *Paronomasia* ( App-6 ): *lo yatz'ah .* . . *tz'anan =* not gone out [to weep] hath the inhabitant of Outhouse.
**in the mourning . . . his standing.** Commence a fresh sentence here; thus: "The trouble of Beth-ezel (Neighbour-town) shall be a useless neighbour". Or, "the Bystander's house will, from you, get its standing-room".
**he shall receive, &c. :** or, he will take from you its support.

**Maroth waited carefully.** The inhabitress of Bitter town bitterly grieved for her goods [taken from her].
**evil** = calamity. Hebrew. *ra'a'.* App-44 .
**the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 . Not by chance.
**the gate of Jerusalem.** In Taylor's Cylinder, Sennacherib mentions his breaking of this gate (col. iii, lines 22:23).

**inhabitant** = inhabitress.
**Lachish . . . swift beast.** Note the Figure of speech *Paronomasia* ( App-6 ). Hebrew. *larekesh . . . lakish* = [bind the chariot] to the horse, O inhabitress of Horse-town,
**Lachish.** Now *Ummtum Lakis,* or *Tell el Hesy.* See notes on [2 Kings 14:19](../../../kjv/2-kings/14/19) ; [2 Kings 19:8](../../../kjv/2-kings/19/8) .
**she.** Evidently Samaria. Compare verses: [Micah 5:9](../../../kjv/micah/5/9) ; [Micah 6:16](../../../kjv/micah/6/16) .

**give presents to** = give up possessions at.
**Achzib . . . a lie.** Note the Figure of speech *Paronomasia,* = the houses of False-town ( *'Akzib)* shall prove false ( *iakzab).*
**Achzib.** Now *es Zib* ([Joshua 15:44](../../../kjv/joshua/15/44) ; [Joshua 19:29](../../../kjv/joshua/19/29) . [Judges 1:31](../../../kjv/judges/1/31) ).

**an heir . . . Mareshah.** Hebrew the possessor ( *hayyoresh)* . . . O Possession ( *Mareshah)* . The possessor whom Jehovah would bring was Assyria.
**he shall come, &c.** The glory: i.e. the nobility ([Isaiah 5:13](../../../kjv/isaiah/5/13) ) of Israel shall go (or flee) unto [the cave] Adullam; as David had done ([1 Samuel 22:1](../../../kjv/1-samuel/22/1) ).

**Make thee bald, &c.** The signs of mourning. Compare [Job 1:20](../../../kjv/job/1/20) . [Isaiah 15:2](../../../kjv/isaiah/15/2) ; [Isaiah 22:12](../../../kjv/isaiah/22/12) .[Jeremiah 7:29](../../../kjv/jeremiah/7/29) ; [Jeremiah 16:6](../../../kjv/jeremiah/16/6) ; [Jeremiah 47:5](../../../kjv/jeremiah/47/5) ; [Jeremiah 48:37](../../../kjv/jeremiah/48/37) ). This is addressed to Judah. It was forbidden under the law ([Deuteronomy 14:1](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/14/1) ). Judah had become as the heathen: let them mourn as the heathen.
**children** = sons.

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