Micah 4:3

He will arbitrate between many peoples, and render decisions for numerous nations, They will beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, they will learn war no more.

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In The King James Version

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 pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

In Context

2and many peoples will go and say, “Come, let us go up to the Lord’s mount, to the house of the God of Jacob, so that he may instruct us in his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.” For from Zion proceeds instruction and the Lord’s word from Jerusalem.

4They will live each under his vine, and under his fig tree, with none to terrify them. For the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.

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Cross References

Psalms 2:5Then he speaks to them in his wrath, and in his hot anger confounds them.

Psalms 46:10“Refrain; and know surely that I am God, high over the nations, high over the world.”

Psalms 72:7In his days may justice flourish, and welfare abound, till the moon be no more.

Psalms 96:13before the Lord: for he comes, he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with justice and the nations with faithfulness.

Psalms 110:1This said the Lord concerning my lord, “Sit at my right hand, till I set your foot on the neck of your foes.”

Matthew Henry on Micah 4:2-8

The Prosperity of the Church Predicted. ( b. c. 726.) 1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. 2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord , and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the… Read the whole commentary →

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