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Micah 7:12

The Pulpit Commentary on Micah 7:12

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

He shall come; they shall come. Men shall flock to Zion as the metropolis of the new kingdom (). The countries named are those in which the Jews were dispersed (see ). Micah embraces in one view the restoration of Israel and the conversion of the heathen (comp.

; , ). Assyria. The type of the greatest enemy of God. The fortified cities; rather, the cities of Mazor, the strong land, i.e. Egypt. The usual term for Egypt is Mizraim; but Mazor is found in ; ; .

Cheyne compares the Assyrian name for this country, Mucar. From the fortress; from Mazor; Septuagint, ἀπὸ τύρου, "from Tyre" or Tsor. Even to the river. From Egypt to the Euphrates, which was the river par excellence.

(). From sea to sea. Not necessarily from the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea or to the Persian Gulf (as ), but generally, from one sea to another, from the earth as bounded by the seas; so, from mountain to mountain; i.

e. not from Lebanon to Sinai, or from Hor () to Hor (), which is too limited, but from all lands situated between mountain barriers, which are the bounds of the world (comp. , etc.

).

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