Richard Challoner

Reformation and later · AD 1500 onward

799 passages across 38 books of the Bible · Who was this?

On Micah

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  1. Micah 5:1
    Daughter of the robber: Some understand this of Babylon; which robbed and pillaged the temple of God: others understand it of Jerusalem; by reason of the many rapines and oppressions committed there.

  2. Micah 5:2
    His going forth: That is, he who as man shall be born in thee, as God was born of his Father from all eternity.

  3. Micah 5:5
    The Assyrian: That is, the persecutors of the church: who are here called Assyrians by the prophet: because the Assyrians were at that time the chief enemies and persecutors of the people of God.-- Ibid.

  4. Micah 5:5
    Seven shepherds: Viz., the pastors of God's church, and the defenders of the faith. The number seven in scripture is taken to signify many: and when eight is joined with it, we are to understand that the number will be very great.

  5. Micah 5:6
    They shall feed: They shall make spiritual conquests in the lands of their persecutors, with the word of the spirit, which is the word of God. Eph. 6. 17.

  6. Micah 5:7
    The remnant of Jacob: Viz., the apostles, and the first preachers of the Jewish nation; whose doctrine, like dew, shall make the plants of the converted Gentiles grow up, without waiting for any man to cultivate them by human learning.

  7. Micah 5:8
    As a lion: This denotes the fortitude of these first preachers; and their success in their spiritual enterprises.

  8. Micah 5:10
    I will take away thy horses: Some understand this, and all that follows to the end of the chapter, as addressed to the enemies of the church. But it may as well be understood of the converts to the church: who should no longer put their trust in any of these things.

  9. Micah 6:1
    The mountains: That is, the great ones, the princes of the people.

  10. Micah 6:5
    From Setim to Galgal: He puts them in mind of the favour he did them, in not suffering them to be quite destroyed by the evil purpose of Balach, and the wicked counsel of Balaam: and then gives them a hint of the wonders he wrought, in order to bring them into the land of Promise, by stopping the course of the Jordan, in their march from Setim to Galgal.

  11. Micah 6:6
    What shall I offer: This is spoken in the person of the people, desiring to be informed what they are to do to please God.

  12. Micah 6:10
    Full of wrath: That is, highly provoking in the sight of God.

  13. Micah 6:16
    The statutes of Amri: The wicked ways of Amri and Achab, idolatrous kings.

  14. Micah 7:10
    She shall be covered: Viz., Babylon my enemy.

  15. Micah 7:11
    The law: Viz., of thy enemies, who have tyrannized over thee.

  16. Micah 7:13
    The land: Viz., of Babylon.

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