The Women and Children Evil Affected Micah 2:9

The evil activity within Samaria and Jerusalem was so flagrant that Micah the prophet compared it to that of an enemy. These wicked ones took advantage of their own people and would “pull off the robe and the garment” of their neighbors just because they were walking down the street. In chapter two and verse nine, Micah told how their wickedness affected the women and the children among them where we read:

The women of my people have you cast out from their pleasant houses;

from their children have you taken away my glory for ever.

The verse begins, “The women of my people have you cast out from their pleasant houses;” As though robbing men who passed by them wasn't enough, Micah included, “The women of my people” or “the widows and females within the nation or tribe” “have you cast out” which means “to drive out, expel, drive away, divorce, put away, thrust away, trouble, and cast up” “from their pleasant” which means “daintiness, luxury, exquisite delight, pleasantness, delight, and comfort “houses” or “dwelling places”. In other words, these evil workers took advantage of widows by throwing them out of their pleasant houses and casting them into the streets.

The verse goes on to say, “from their children have you taken away my glory for ever.” Not only were the women and widows affected by these evil ones, “from their children” who were “infants, orphans and toddlers” “have you taken away” or “got, fetched, laid hold of, seized, received, acquired, bought, brought or snatched” “my glory” which means “ornament, splendor, honor and majesty” “for ever” or “everlasting, evermore and perpetual”. Rather than playing freely these children were to be used as slaves in captivity, and the enemy's design was for them to be servants forever.

In chapter one and verse twenty-seven in the book of James in the Bible it reads:

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Obviously this was not the behavior of the wicked who were scattered throughout Samaria and Jerusalem. Not only did they take advantage of their fellow-countrymen, but they disregarded the widows and orphans who were among them as well. Their wickedness promoted the destruction and desecration of their women and children, and they seemed to care little about it. While we meditate upon these words of Micah, let us think about those who take advantage of widows and orphans today. Do these evil doers really believe they will get away with it? Perhaps they do, however they are forgetting that the LORD God Almighty was the one who inspired Micah to write these words, and by His Spirit, we know this wickedness will not be forgotten. Jesus Christ came to die for those who will repent of these evils, however if they do not turn from them, Woe be unto their rejecting hearts.

Next time Micah tells them to arise and depart, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

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