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Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
Micah 2:10 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB Arise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.
  • BSB Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction—a grievous destruction!
  • NKJV “Arise and depart, For this is not your rest; Because it is defiled, it shall destroy, Yes, with utter destruction.
  • NASB “Arise and go, For this is no place of rest Because of the uncleanness that brings on destruction, A painful destruction.
  • NLT Up! Begone! This is no longer your land and home, for you have filled it with sin and ruined it completely.

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Quick answer

Because they have defiled the land, the oppressors are told to arise and leave, for it is no longer their resting place. It pronounces exile as the consequence of their sin.

Overview

The promised land was meant to be a place of rest, but their 'uncleanness' has made it unfit to hold them. The command to 'depart' foreshadows the coming exile that would drive Judah from the land. Sin pollutes God's gifts and forfeits the rest He intends for His people.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 18

  • Deut 12:9For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you.
  • Ps 106:38And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
  • 2 Kgs 17:6In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
  • Heb 4:1–9Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
  • 2 Kgs 15:29In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
  • Ezek 36:12–14Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men.
  • Jer 9:19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
  • 2 Chr 7:20Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.
  • 1 Kgs 9:7Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
  • Deut 30:18I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
  • Josh 23:15–16Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
  • Lev 20:22–26Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.
  • Deut 4:26I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
  • Jer 10:18For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.
  • 2 Chr 36:20–21And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:
  • Ps 95:11Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
  • Lev 18:24–28Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
  • Jer 3:2Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

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Christ at the center

Micah names the town — 'But you, Bethlehem... from you shall come forth one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origins are from of old' — the birthplace of the eternal King.

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