Micah 2:10

Up! and go; for this is not your rest: because it has been made unclean, the destruction ordered will come on you.

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In The King James Version

Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.

In Context

9The women of my people you have been driving away from their dearly loved children; from their young ones you are taking my glory for ever.

11If a man came with a false spirit of deceit, saying, I will be a prophet to you of wine and strong drink: he would be the sort of prophet for this people.

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Cross References

Leviticus 20:22So then, keep my rules and my decisions and do them, so that the land which I am giving you as your resting-place may not violently send you out again.

Deuteronomy 12:9For you have not come to the rest and the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

Joshua 23:15And you will see that, as all the good things which the Lord your God undertook to do for you, have come to you, so the Lord will send down on you all the evil things till he has made your destruction complete, and you are cut off from the good land which the Lord your God has given you.

2 Kings 15:29In the days of Pekah, king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, came and took Ijon and Abel-beth-maacah and Janoah and Kedesh and Hazor and Gilead and Galilee and all the land of Naphtali; and he took the people away to Assyria.

2 Chronicles 7:20Then I will have this people uprooted out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will put away from before my eyes, and make it an example and a word of shame among all peoples.

Psalms 95:11And I made an oath in my wrath, that they might not come into my place of rest.

Matthew Henry on Micah 2:7-12

Expostulation with the House of Jacob; The Sin and Punishment of Oppression. ( b. c. 740.) 6 Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame. 7 O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the Lord straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly? 8 Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war. 9 The… Read the whole commentary →

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