Passage Research
Micah 2 — Sermon Preparation
God indicts those who scheme evil in their beds and seize fields by force, and amid the warnings promises to gather a remnant with a shepherd-leader. Below is a research summary for Micah 2, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 13
- verses
- 176 / 122
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 23
- classic sermon excerpts
- 5
- preachers & commentators
Micah 2 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| נָטַף | nâṭaph | H5197 | 5 | ooze, distil gradually |
| עַם | ʻam | H5971 | 4 | people, tribe |
| מוּשׁ | mûwsh | H4185 | 2 | withdraw |
| עָבַר | ʻâbar | H5674 | 3 | cross, transition |
| רַע | raʻ | H7451 | 3 | bad, evil |
| פָּרַץ | pârats | H6555 | 2 | break |
| שָׁדַד | shâdad | H7703 | 2 | be burly, powerful |
How preachers through history handled this text
23 public-domain excerpts on Micah 2, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“These verses may refer to the captivity of Israel and Judah. But the passage is also a prophecy of the conversion of the Jews to Christ. The Lord would not only bring them from captivity, and multiply them, but the Lord Jesus would open their way to God, by taking upon him the nature of man, and by the work of his Spirit in their hearts, breaking the fetters of Satan. Thus he has gone before, and the people follow, breaking, in his strength, through the enemies that would stop their way to heaven.”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Micah 2:12–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Bozrah 1— Mic 2:12
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