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Micah 2:10 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 10. 10Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
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Quick Meaning
This verse commands departure because polluted land can no longer function as rest and brings severe destruction.
Read It With
- Micah 2:6-11
Read Micah 2:10 with 2:6-11. This verse commands departure because polluted land can no longer function as rest and brings severe destruction. The complete unit establishes this movement: People suppress hard prophecy by appealing to inherited assurances while their conduct strips peaceful travelers and drives women and children from home; the preferred preacher promises abundance without confronting harm.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The dispute shows how theology becomes cover for exploitation when hearers accept only messages of security and plenty. Within that movement, this verse commands departure because polluted land can no longer function as rest and brings severe destruction.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“rest”
In plain language: settled place of security, not mere relaxation
commands departure because polluted land can no longer function as rest and brings severe destruction. A promised place is not safe when it is made morally unclean by dispossession.
Why it matters: The wording identifies this verse's distinct contribution to the complete unit.
How certain? strongWhat Remains True
A promised place is not safe when it is made morally unclean by dispossession.
How It Can Shape Life
- Do not call an institution a place of rest while people are being expelled or exploited.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Micah 2:6-11 — Comfort-Only Prophecy Protects DispossessionSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing Scripture wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Micah 2:6-11, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Micah
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording, morphology, clause relationships, wordplays, names, and the base text behind translation discussion.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Mic.xml, 2:6-11
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Micah with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, textual, literary, historical, and uncertainty notes.
Exact location: NET Bible Micah PDF, printed pp. 1743, translation and notes on 2:6-11
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