Micah 1:12 BSB — MannaFest

Micah 1:12

For the dwellers of Maroth pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.

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ASV

For the inhabitant of Maroth waiteth anxiously for good, because evil is come down from Jehovah unto the gate of Jerusalem.

KJV

For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the Lord unto the gate of Jerusalem.

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Commentary

4 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 Century3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

For the inhabitant of Maroth - (bitterness) waited carefully for good She waited carefully for the good which God gives, not for the Good which God is. She looked, longed for, good, as men do; but therewith her longing ended. She longed for it, amid her own evil, which brought God’s judgments upon her. Maroth is mentioned here only in Holy Scripture, and has not been identified. It too was probably selected for its meaning.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 3184: “Maroth—or, the Disappointed” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1910)

The village of the bitter spring, for that is probably the meaning of this name, Maroth, experienced a bitter disappointment. At the time when the Assyrians invaded the land, the inhabitants expected that deliverance would come to them from some quarter or other. From the context, I judge that they placed some sort of reliance upon the Philistines. They possibly had some hope that the king of Egypt would come up to attack Sennacherib.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

This accords with the meaning of Maroth, "bitterness," to which allusion is made in "is grieved." But the antithesis favors English Version, "waited carefully (that is, anxiously) for good, but evil came down." from the Lord--not from chance. unto the gate of Jerusalem--after the other cities of Judah have been taken.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
חָ֥לָֽה	Cha.lah	she is in anguish	H2342 →
לְט֖וֹב	le.Tov	for good	H2896 →
יוֹשֶׁ֣בֶת	yo.She.vet	[the] inhabitant[s] of	H3427 →
מָר֑וֹת	ma.Rot	Maroth	H4796 →
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
יָ֤רַד	Ya.rad	it has come down	H3381 →
רָע֙	ra'	calamity	H7451 →
מֵאֵ֣ת	me.'Et	from with	H854 →
יְהוָ֔ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
לְשַׁ֖עַר	le.Sha.'ar	to [the] gate of	H8179 →
יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃	ye.ru.sha.Lim	Jerusalem	H3389 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H8179leshaarto [the] gate of374×

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Job 30:26
But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.
leads to
- Jeremiah 8:15
  We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Amos 3:6
If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?
leads to
- Isaiah 45:7
  I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
- Zephaniah 1:16
  a day of horn blast and battle cry against the fortified cities, and against the high corner towers.
- Isaiah 14:24–27
  The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.
- 2 Corinthians 5:11
  Therefore, since we know what it means to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is clear to God, and I hope it is clear to your conscience as well.
- Genesis 50:20
  As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.
Through
Jeremiah 8:15
We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
leads to
- Jeremiah 14:19
  Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Jeremiah 14:19
Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of…
leads to
- 1 Thessalonians 5:3
  While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.

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