Micah 7:14 BSB — MannaFest

Micah 7:14

Shepherd with Your staff Your people, the flock of Your inheritance. They live alone in a woodland, surrounded by pastures. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

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ASV

Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy heritage, which dwell solitarily, in the forest in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

KJV

Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

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Commentary

3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Feed thy people with thy rod - בשבטך beshibtecha, “with thy crook.” The shepherd’s crook is most certainly designed, as the word flock immediately following shows. No rod of correction or affliction is here intended; nor does the word mean such. Solitarily - They have been long without a shepherd or spiritual governor. In the midst of Carmel - Very fruitful in vines. Bashan and Gilead - Proverbially fruitful in pasturages.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Feed - So Christ directs his officers. With thy rod - In allusion to the custom of shepherds who guided their sheep by a pastoral staff. In the wood - Protect and guide those that in their present captive state are solitary, compassed with dangers.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Feed thy people--Prayer of the prophet, in the name of his people to God, which, as God fulfils believing prayer, is prophetical of what God would do. When God is about to deliver His people, He stirs up their friends to pray for them.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
רְעֵ֧ה	re.'Eh	shepherd	H7462 →
עַמְּךָ֣	'a.me.Kha	people your	H5971 →
בְשִׁבְטֶ֗ךָ	ve.shiv.Te.kha	with rod your	H7626 →
צֹ֚אן	tzon	[the] flock of	H6629 →
נַֽחֲלָתֶ֔ךָ	na.cha.la.Te.kha	inheritance your	H5159 →
שֹׁכְנִ֣י	sho.khe.Ni	[who] dwell	H7931 →
לְבָדָ֔ד	le.va.Dad	<of> alone	H910 →
יַ֖עַר	Ya.'ar	a forest	H3293 →
בְּת֣וֹךְ	be.Tokh	in [the] midst of	H8432 →
כַּרְמֶ֑ל	kar.Mel	a garden-land	H3759 →
יִרְע֥וּ	yir.'U	let them graze	H7462 →
בָשָׁ֛ן	va.Shan	Bashan	H1316 →
וְגִלְעָ֖ד	ve.gil.'Ad	and Gilead	H1568 →
כִּימֵ֥י	ki.Mei	like [the] days of	H3117 →
עוֹלָֽם׃	o.Lam	antiquity	H5769 →

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

The walk

The walk8

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
Psalms 100:3
Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
leads to
- Psalms 95:6–7
  O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.
- Psalms 46:10
  “Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted over the earth.”
- Psalms 119:73
  Your hands have made me and fashioned me; give me understanding to learn Your commandments.
- John 17:3
  Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
- Ephesians 2:10
  For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
Through
Isaiah 40:11
He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.
leads to
- Ezekiel 34:23
  I will appoint over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them. He will feed them and be their shepherd.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Revelation 7:17
  For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. ‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’ and ‘God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”
- Psalms 23:1–6
  The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About Micah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

Related verses

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About Micah