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    Micah · 13 verses

    Micah 2

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    The people who forbid preaching turn out to have a very particular taste in preachers: anyone promising wine and strong drink will do nicely.

    The sermon they would rather hearvv. 1–11

    The chapter opens with men plotting evil in bed and carrying it out at dawn, because power is in their hands. Fields, houses, homes, and inheritances are taken; then the LORD announces a disaster that will bend their proud walk and leave their portion allotted to traitors. Even the rebuke is resisted in sermon form: “Do not preach,” they preach. Yet the most deliciously crooked detail comes at the end of this movement: a false preacher of wine and strong drink would be exactly the preacher this people wanted. Meanwhile, women are driven from pleasant homes, children lose blessing, and the land is told to be abandoned because it has become no place of rest.

    The flock breaks outvv. 12–13

    Then the scene turns sharply. The LORD will gather Jacob and collect Israel’s remnant, not into a tidy little company but into a noisy throng, sheep packed in a pen and flocked in pasture. One breaks open the way; the people follow through the gate, and their King passes before them, with the LORD as their leader. After all that plotting in bedrooms and all those stolen boundaries, the chapter ends with a breach.

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    1. Mic 2:1Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.

    2. Mic 2:2They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.

    3. Mic 2:3Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I am planning against this nation a disaster from which you cannot free your necks. Then you will not walk so proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.

    4. Mic 2:4In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ‘We are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.’”

    5. Mic 2:5Therefore, you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by lot.

    6. Mic 2:6“Do not preach,” they preach. “Do not preach these things; disgrace will not overtake us.”

    7. Mic 2:7Should it be said, O house of Jacob, “Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these the things He does?” Do not My words bring good to him who walks uprightly?

    8. Mic 2:8But of late My people have risen up like an enemy: You strip off the splendid robe from unsuspecting passersby like men returning from battle.

    9. Mic 2:9You drive the women of My people from their pleasant homes. You take away My blessing from their children forever.

    10. Mic 2:10Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction—a grievous destruction!

    11. Mic 2:11If a man of wind were to come and say falsely, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be just the preacher for this people!

    12. Mic 2:12I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the midst of its pasture—a noisy throng.

    13. Mic 2:13One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate, and go out by it. Their King will pass through before them, the LORD as their leader.

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    Where this is echoed

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    • 13Isaiah 52:12For you will not leave in a hurry nor flee in haste, for the LORD goes before you, and the God of Israel is your rear guard.
    • 1Psalms 36:4Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.
    • 1Isaiah 32:7The weapons of the scoundrel are destructive; he hatches plots to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.
    • 10Deuteronomy 12:9For you have not yet come to the resting place and the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you.
    • 1Psalms 7:14–16Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.
    • 1Hosea 7:6–7For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
    • 1Nahum 1:11From you, O Nineveh, comes forth a plotter of evil against the LORD, a counselor of wickedness.
    • 1Proverbs 6:12–19A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,
    • 10Psalms 106:38They shed innocent blood—the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.
    • 13Zechariah 9:14–15Then the LORD will appear over them, and His arrow will go forth like lightning. The Lord GOD will sound the ram’s horn and advance in the whirlwinds of the south.
    • 13Isaiah 45:1–2This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut:
    • 1Romans 1:30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.
    • 6Amos 2:12“But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.
    • 13Revelation 7:17For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. ‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’ and ‘God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”
    • 13John 10:27–30My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.
    • 13Hebrews 2:14–15Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,

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