The Meaning of Micah 1:15 Explained

Micah 1:15

KJV: Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.

YLT: Yet the possessor I do bring in to thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah, To Adullam come in doth the honour of Israel.

Darby: I will yet bring unto thee an heir, O inhabitress of Mareshah; the glory of Israel shall come even unto Adullam.

ASV: I will yet bring unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah, him that shall possess thee: the glory of Israel shall come even unto Adullam.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Yet will I bring  an heir  unto thee, O inhabitant  of Mareshah:  he shall come  unto Adullam  the glory  of Israel. 

What does Micah 1:15 Mean?

Verse Meaning

The Lord would bring on the inhabitants of Mareshah ("possessor") one who would take possession of them. The glory of Israel, probably her leaders, would flee ashamedly for safety to Adullam, as David had done earlier ( 1 Samuel 22:1). [1]

Context Summary

Micah 1:1-16 - God's Witness Against His Chosen
Micah was contemporary with Isaiah and Hosea. Jeremiah quotes from him. Compare Micah 3:12 and Jeremiah 26:18.
In Micah 1:1-4 the prophet summons the nations to behold the just punishment which Jehovah would mete out to His faithless people. Micah 1:5-6 portray the desolation of Samaria. Destruction would settle on the homes and fields of men, and the prospect of this so affected the prophet that he divested himself of outer garment and sandals, that his disheveled condition might depict the calamities that he announced. Micah 1:10-16 make clear that Judah also would suffer similar chastisements. Aphrah and Shaphir would be hurried into captivity. So universal would be the calamity that Zaanan would not come to bewail with the neighboring city of Bethezel.
The prophets were true patriots and they felt that all good citizens should lament with them, Micah 1:16, in the hope of averting impending judgments. Are we feeling the sins and sorrows of our time, as Jesus felt those of Jerusalem, when He wept over the city? [source]

Chapter Summary: Micah 1

1  The time when Micah prophesied
2  He shows the wrath of God against Jacob for idolatry
10  He exhorts to mourning

What do the individual words in Micah 1:15 mean?

Yet an heir I will bring to you inhabitant of Mareshah To Adullam shall come the glory of Israel
עֹ֗ד הַיֹּרֵשׁ֙ אָ֣בִי לָ֔ךְ יוֹשֶׁ֖בֶת מָֽרֵשָׁ֑ה עַד־ עֲדֻּלָּ֥ם‪‬‪‬ יָב֖וֹא כְּב֥וֹד יִשְׂרָאֵֽל

עֹ֗ד  Yet 
Parse: Adverb
Root: עֹוד  
Sense: a going round, continuance adv.
הַיֹּרֵשׁ֙  an  heir 
Parse: Article, Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine singular
Root: יָרַשׁ  
Sense: to seize, dispossess, take possession off, inherit, disinherit, occupy, impoverish, be an heir.
אָ֣בִי  I  will  bring 
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Imperfect, first person common singular
Root: בֹּוא 
Sense: to go in, enter, come, go, come in.
לָ֔ךְ  to  you 
Parse: Preposition, second person feminine singular
יוֹשֶׁ֖בֶת  inhabitant 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Participle, feminine singular construct
Root: יָשַׁב 
Sense: to dwell, remain, sit, abide.
מָֽרֵשָׁ֑ה  of  Mareshah 
Parse: Proper Noun, feminine singular
Root: מָרֵשָׁה 
Sense: one of the cities in the lowlands of Judah.
עֲדֻּלָּ֥ם‪‬‪‬  Adullam 
Parse: Proper Noun, feminine singular
Root: עֲדֻלָּם  
Sense: a town of the Canaanites allotted to Judah and lying in the lowlands; site of the cave where David hid.
יָב֖וֹא  shall  come 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: בֹּוא 
Sense: to go in, enter, come, go, come in.
כְּב֥וֹד  the  glory 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: כָּבֹוד  
Sense: glory, honour, glorious, abundance.
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל  of  Israel 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יִשְׂרָאֵל  
Sense: the second name for Jacob given to him by God after his wrestling with the angel at Peniel.