Teks -- Micah 5:12 (NET)

5:12 I will remove the sorcery that you practice, and you will no longer have omen readers living among you.

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Wesley: Mic 5:12 - I will cut off

God will in mercy to his people take away these occasions of sin.

JFB: Mic 5:12 - witchcrafts out of thine hand

That is, which thou now usest.

Clarke: Mic 5:12 - I will cut off witchcrafts

I will cut off witchcrafts - Thou shalt seek help only in Jehovah thy God. They have had neither soothsayers, images, groves, nor high places, from the captivity to the present day.

Calvin: Mic 5:12 - I will cut off,

I will cut off, he says, the sorcerers, כשפים , cashephim ¹⁵⁵ Some render the word jugglers, and others, augurs or diviners. We cannot know of a certainty what kind of superstition it was, nor the other which immediately follows: ¹⁵⁶ for the Prophet mentions here two words which mean nearly the same thing. There is no doubt but that some, in that age, were called augurs or diviners, and others called jugglers or astrologers who are now called fortune-tellers. But on this subject there is no necessity of much labor; for the Prophet simply shows here that the people could not be preserved by Gods unless they were cleansed from these defilements. These superstitions, we know, were forbidden and condemned by God’s Law: but the Law was not able to restrain the wickedness of that people; for they continually turned aside to these evils. God then here shows, that until they had purged the Church, it could not continue safe. Now, in these words, the Prophet reminds the Jews, and also the Israelites, for their benefit, that it was, and had been, through their own fault, that they labored under constant miseries and were not helped by the hand of God. — How so? Because there was no room, as God shows here, for the exercise of his favor; for they were full of auguries and divinations, and of other diabolical arts. “How,” he says, “can I help you, for I have no agreement with Satan? As you are wholly given to wicked superstitions, my favor is rejected by you.” ¹⁵⁷

One thing is, that the Prophet intended to humble the people, so that every one might know that it had been through their fault, that God had not brought them help as they wished: but there is another thing, — God promises a cleansing, which would open a way for his favor, — I will take away, he says, all the diviners Let us then know, that it ought to be deemed the greatest benefit when God takes away from us our superstitions and other vices. For since a diminution, however hard and grievous it may be at first, is useful to us, as we see, when we willfully and openly drive away God from us; is it not a singular favor in God when he suffers us not to be thus separated from him, but prepares a way for himself to be connected with us, and has ever his hand extended to bring us help? Thus much as to these two kinds of impediments.

TSK: Mic 5:12

Isa 2:6-8, Isa 2:18, Isa 2:20, Isa 8:19, Isa 8:20, Isa 27:9; Zec 13:2-4; Rev 19:20, Rev 22:15

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Poole: Mic 5:12 - Thou shalt have no more soothsayers

In this verse the Lord foretells the downfall of all unlawful arts which had been in use, though forbidden by the law of God, Lev 20:27 . Though Israel should have consulted with God alone, yet they did consult with sorcerers. So did Manasseh, and before him, 2Ki 17:17 .

Thou shalt have no more soothsayers the very art shall be out of use, and none shall openly, as formerly, consult with them, or they make profession of foretelling events, or what a lucky day or hour to set upon an enterprise, or to curse, as Balaam would have done, an enemy to make way for victory; no more of these; the oracles ceased when Christ was born: much to this purpose Zec 13:2 Mal 3:5 . God will, in mercy to his people, take away these stumbling-blocks, these occasions of sin.

Gill: Mic 5:12 - And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand // and thou shalt have no more soothsayers

And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand,.... Such as were formerly practised among the Jews, though forbidden them, and in mystical Babylon, or the antichristian church, whose sorceries are mentioned, Rev 9:21; but nothing of this kind will be found in the Christian church, consisting of Jews and Gentiles, in the latter day; all unlawful arts, cheating and juggling in religious matters, will cease, and be no more:

and thou shalt have no more soothsayers; or diviners, that cast a mist over people's eyes, and deceived them with false appearances of things; that pretended to know times and seasons, when it was or was not a good day to go abroad, or to make merchandise; that judged by the clouds, and by the position of the heavens, what would come to pass hereafter; and though such sort of men were formerly indulged, connived at, and caressed among the Jews, they should be so no more; nor should they apply to such persons for advice and counsel; nor would they need it, nor should they use it; see Deu 18:10.