Micah 1:10 BSB — MannaFest

Micah 1:10

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

BSB

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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.

KJV

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

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Micah (420)

(Vers. 10 seq.) In Geth, do not announce, do not weep with tears, sprinkle yourselves with dust in the house of dust: pass by, you inhabitants of Saphir (Beautiful), confused with disgrace, she who dwells in Sennan (Exit) has not come out. The lament of the house of Asel (Neighboring) will receive you: she who stood for herself, because she is weakened in good, she who dwells in Maroth (Bitterness): for evil descends from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Declare ye it not at Gath - Do not let this prediction be known among the Philistines, else they will glory over you. House of Aphrah - Or, Beth-aphrah. This place is mentioned Jos 18:23, as in the tribe of Benjamin. There is a paronomasia, or play on words, here: בבית לעפרה עפר bebeith leaphrah aphar, “Roll thyself in the dust in the house of dust.”

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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";

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בְּגַת֙	be.Gat	in Gath	H1661 →
אַל־	'al-	may not	H408 →
תַּגִּ֔ידוּ	ta.Gi.du	you tell	H5046 →
בָּכ֖וֹ	ba.Kho	at all <weep>	H1058 →
אַל־	'al-	may not	H408 →
תִּבְכּ֑וּ	tiv.Ku	you weep	H1058 →
בְּבֵ֣ית	be.Veit	in Beth	H1036 →
לְעַפְרָ֔ה	le.'af.Rah	Leaphrah	H1036 →
עָפָ֖ר	'a.Far	dust	H6083 →
הִתְפַּלָּֽשִׁי׃	hit.pa.la.she.ti	roll yourself	H6428 →

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Job 2:8
And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.
leads to
- Job 42:6
  Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
- Jonah 3:6
  When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
- Ezekiel 27:30
  They will raise their voices for you and cry out bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in ashes.
- Matthew 11:21
  “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Through
Amos 6:10
And when the relative who is to burn the bodies picks them up to remove them from the house, he will call to one inside, “Is anyone else with you?” “None,” that person will…
leads to
- 1 Samuel 31:12
  all their men of valor set out, journeyed all night, and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. When they arrived at Jabesh, they burned the bodies there.
- Amos 8:3
  “In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”
Through
Jeremiah 6:26
O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
leads to
- Jeremiah 4:8
  So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.”
- Zechariah 12:10
  Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They…

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Where the connections lead

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