Micah 2:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 2

⁸Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.

Micah 2:8 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 120:6-7
My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace. …
2 Samuel 20:19
I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?
Isaiah 9:21
Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
2 Chronicles 28:5-8
Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter. …
Psalms 55:20
He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-11)

Here are two sins charged upon the people of Israel, and judgments denounced against them for each, such judgments as exactly answer the sin—persecuting God’s prophets and oppressing God’s poor. I. Persecuting God’s prophets, suppressing and silencing them, is a sin that provokes God as much as anything, for it not only spits in the face of his authority over us, but spurns at the bowels of his me…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. Your ways are not such that I can deal with you as I would with the upright. Even of late--literally, “yesterday,” “long ago.” So “of old.” Hebrew, “yesterday” (Is 30:33); “heretofore,” Hebrew, “since yesterday” (Jos 3:4). my people is risen up as an enemy--that is, has rebelled against My precepts; also has become an enemy to the unoffending passers-by. robe with the garment--Not content with…