Micah 5:13
I will smash down the idols and stone pillars that stand among you: you shall not bow down and worship idols that you make with your own hands any more.
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In Context
12I will stop the witchcraft you practice; there will be no more fortune-tellers for you.
14I will pull up the Asherah poles that you have and destroy your pagan places.
Cross References
Isaiah 2:8Their country is full of idols; they bow down and worship what they have made themselves—produced by their own hands!
Isaiah 27:9Through this experience Jacob's guilt will be forgiven. The removal of their sins will come to fruition when they take all the pagan altar stones and crush them to pieces like chalk—no Asherah poles or altars of incense will be left standing.
Ezekiel 16:41They will burn down your houses and punish you while many women watch. I will stop your prostitution, and you won't ever pay your lovers again.
Ezekiel 37:23They won't make themselves unclean anymore with their idols or disgusting images, or with any of their rebellious sins. I will save them from all their sins when they abandoned me, and I will make them clean. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
Hosea 14:3Assyria can't save us; we will not ride our warhorses; we will never again say, ‘You are our gods’ to the idols we have made. For in you orphans find mercy.”
Zechariah 13:2On that day, declares the Lord Almighty, I will wipe out idol worship from the land—the idols will not be remembered any longer. I will remove the false prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.
Matthew Henry on Micah 5:8-15
The Increase of the Church; Encouraging Predictions. ( b. c. 720.) 7 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the Lord , as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men. 8 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver. 9 Thine hand… Read the whole commentary →