“Restoring The Kingdom” Lesson Text: Micah 3 – 5: Series: The Justice And Love Of God: SS Summer Quarter, 2006 June, July, August.

Key Verse: Micah 4:3:

King James Translation: “And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off, and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”

Interlinear Translation: “And he shall judge among peoples many and will decide for nations strong far distant. And they shall hammer their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning knives. Not shall a nation uplift a against nation a sword and not shall they learn war anymore.”

Strong’s Concordance Translation: ‘AND HE SHALL JUDGE = pronounce sentence, by implication to punish or vindicate, to govern, passive to litigate, avenge, condemn, contend, defend, execute, plead, reason. AMONG = a distinction, asunder, within. MANY = abundant in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality, abound, abundance, enough, increase. PEOPLE = a people as a congregated unit, specially a tribe, troops or attendants, figuratively a flock. AND REBUKE = to be right, i.e. correct, argue, decide, justify or convict, chasten, convince, dispute, plead, reason, reprove. STRONG = powerful, numerous, great, mighty, must. NATIONS = massing, a foreign nation hence gentile, heathen, peoples. AFAR OFF = remote, long ago, of old, space, great while to come. AND THEY SHALL BEAT = to bruise or violently strike, beat down, beat to pieces, break in pieces, crushed, destroy, discomfit, smite, stamp. SWORDS = drought, also a cutting instrument from its destructive effect, tool. INTO PLOWSHARES = a hoe or other digging instrument, coulter. AND THEIR SPEARS = a lance for thrusting like pitching a tent, javelin. INTO PRUNING HOOKS = to trim a vine, prune. NATION SHALL NOT LIFT UP A SWORD AGAINST NATION = accept, advance, arise, contain, forgive, honorable, pardon. NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN = to not goad, to not teach, the rod not being an oriental incentive, not accustom, not teach. WAR ANY MORE = no more fighting a battle, i.e. no more engagement, not more warfare, no more battle, no more fight.

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