Micah 1:5

Because of the peysha (transgression) of Ya'akov is all this, 1 and because of the chattot Bais Yisroel. 1 What is the peysha of Ya'akov? 1 Is it not Shomron? 1 And what are the high places of Yehudah? 1 Are they not Yerushalayim? 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?

In Context

4And the mountains shall melt under Him, 1 and the valleys shall be split apart, 1 like wax before the eish, 1 and like mayim that are poured down a steep place. 1

6Therefore I will make Shomron like a rubble heap of the sadeh, 1 and like a place for planting a kerem (vineyard); 1 and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, 1 and I will lay bare her foundations. 1

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Cross References

1 Kings 13:32For the davar which he cried by the Devar Hashem against the mizbe'ach in Beit-El, and against all the batim of the high places which are in the cities of Shomron, shall surely come to pass.

2 Kings 16:3But he walked in the derech of the Melachim of Yisroel, and even made bno to pass through the eish, according to the to'avot of the Goyim, whom Hashem cast out from before the Bnei Yisroel.

2 Kings 17:7For so it was, that the Bnei Yisroel had sinned against Hashem Eloheihem Who had brought them up out of Eretz Mitzrayim, from under the yad of Pharaoh Melech Mitzrayim, had feared elohim acherim,

2 Chronicles 28:2For he walked in the ways of the melachim of Yisroel, and made also massekhot for Ba'alim.

2 Chronicles 28:23For he sacrificed unto the elohei Damascus, which defeated him, and he said, Because the elohim of the melachim of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of kol Yisroel.

Isaiah 50:1Thus saith Hashem: 1 Where is the Sefer Keritut (Bill of Divorce) 1 by which I sent your Em (Mother) away? 1 Or which Nosheh (Creditor) of Mine is it 1 to whom I have sold you [into slavery]? 1 Behold, for your avonot (iniquities) have ye been sold, 1 and for your peysha'im (rebellions) was your Em sent away. 1

Matthew Henry on Micah 1:2-8

Micah We shall have some account of this prophet in the first verse of the book of his prophecy; and therefore shall here only observe that, being contemporary with the prophet Isaiah (only that he began to prophesy a little after him), there is a near resemblance between that prophet's prophecy and this; and there is a prediction of the advancement and establishment of the gospel-church, which both of them have, almost in the same words, that out of the mouth of two such witnesses so great a word might be… Read the whole commentary →

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