2:8
Micah then continues his rebuke of the nation. If someone listens to and accepts the word of God, including rebukes, then it does them good. But God’s people were now acting like enemies of God, rejecting His word. The fruit of this was that they robbed people of possessions, and in situations where the victims had no reason to expect any danger. Note that here it is rich or comfortable people who are the victims. Usually it is the poor. All theft is wrong, whether or not the victim is rich or poor. Now the poor are much more vulnerable, and a godly person will have concern for the poor, but all theft is theft, regardless of who the victim is.
2:9
This again seems to be about the better off families. “The women of my people you drive out”. How was this so? Well, the only way that Israel could be saved from the coming onslaught was by repenting. So by refusing to preach repentance the false teachers and prophets were doing harm to the women and children. We see the same pattern today. So much of the church will not preach repentance, but without repentance there is no salvation.
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