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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Micah 1:7 - 1:7
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all the hires - the wealth which Israel boasted of receiving from her idols as the “rewards” or “hire” for worshipping them (Hos 2:5, Hos 2:12).
idols ... will I ... desolate - that is, give them up to the foe to strip off the silver and gold with which they are overlaid.
she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot - Israel gathered (made for herself) her idols from the gold and silver received from false gods, as she thought, the “hire” of her worshipping them; and they shall again become what they had been before, the hire of spiritual harlotry, that is, the prosperity of the foe, who also being worshippers of idols will ascribe the acquisition to their idols [Maurer]. Grotius explains it, The offerings sent to Israel’s temple by the Assyrians, whose idolatry Israel adopted, shall go back to the Assyrians, her teachers in idolatry, as the hire or fee for having taught it. The image of a harlot’s hire for the supposed temporal reward of spiritual fornication, is more common in Scripture (Hos 9:1).