Study 2 From The Book of Micah is: Micah
3:1-4:7
1. The nation’s prophets and
priest come under scathing denunciation.
Why? And with what result (see ‘then’, 3:4,’therefore’, 3:6 and 12)? The
priests remembered God’s promises (3:11; cf. Ps.132:13, 14) but not His
stipulations (cf. Ps. 132:12). May our confidence be similarly false?
2. Notice especially the contrast
between the true prophet (3:8; cf. 2:7) and the false (3:5, 11; cf. 2:6, 11).
How may we recognize the Spirit of the Lord?
3. 4:1-7. A new kingdom of peace
(4:3, 4) and wholeness (4:6, 7) is to be established. What will characterize the King, and what His
subjects?
Notes:
- 3:1 ‘Know’ here means ‘care
for’; the verb is used in this pregnant sense in, e.g, 6:5; Ps. 144:3
(av); Pr. 12:10; Ho. 8:4.
- 3:2, 3. God’s ideal (Am.)
5:15) had been turned on its head.
The judiciary, like ravenous wild beasts, while preying on the
people.
- 3:7 ‘Cover their lips’: a sign
of shame (Lv. 13:45) or mourning Ezk. 24:17).
- 3:10 Jerusalem was being
adorned with fine buildings at the cost of the lives of the people.
- Chapter 4. Zion will be the
pre-eminent place of God’s revelation (verse 2) and His rule (verses 3:7).
- 4:5. A parenthesis: at present
men do not all give their allegiance to the Lord; this is yet to come. ‘In
that day’ (4:6).
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