Micah 1:10 KJV — MannaFest

Micah 1:10

Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.

KJV

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ASV

Tell it not in Gath, weep not at all: at Beth-le-aphrah have I rolled myself in the dust.

WEB

Do not tell it in Gath; do not weep at all. Roll in the dust in Beth-leaphrah.

YLT

In Gath tell ye not--in Acco weep not, In Beth-Aphrah, in dust roll thyself.

DBT

Tell it not in Gath, weep not at all; at Beth-le-aphrah roll thyself in the dust.

About this book

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Micah — A prophet of rural Moresheth — contemporary of Isaiah — preaching judgment on Jerusalem and Samaria. Bethlehem named as Messiah's birthplace. And the Bible's clearest summary of what the LORD requires.

Author: Micah the Morasthite (1:1) — from Moresheth-Gath in the Judean lowlands
Date: c. 740–700 BC, during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah

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10 verses on the floor

2 Samuel 1:20
Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Jeremiah 6:26
O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
Lamentations 3:29
He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
Amos 6:10
And a man’s uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the Lord.
Job 2:8
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.

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): Declare it not in Gath; this is borrowed from David's lamentation for Saul and Jonathan ( 2 Sam. i. 20 ), Tell it not in Gath, for the uncircumcised will triumph in Israel's tears. Note, One would not, if it could be helped, gratify those that make themselves and their companions merry with the sins or with the sorrows of God's Israel.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

4 And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place. 5 For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Acco's inhabitants would, therefore, like Gath's, rejoice at Israel's disaster. Thus the parallelism is best carried out in all the three clauses of the verse, and there is a similar play on sounds in each, in the Hebrew Gath, resembling in sound the Hebrew for "declare";

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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