Micah 1:7

And all the pesilim thereof shall be beaten to pieces, 1 and all the etnan (temple proceeds of cult prostitution) shall be burned with the eish, 1 and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate; 1 for she + 1:7 i.e., Shomron gathered of the etnan (wage) of a zonah, 1 and they shall revert to the etnan (wage) of a zonah. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.

In Context

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

8Therefore I will weep and wail, 1 I will go barefoot and arom (half-naked); 1 I will wail like the jackals, 1 and mourn like the ostriches. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:30And I will destroy your high places, and cut down chammaneichem (your pillars for worshiping the sun), and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and My Nefesh shall abhor you.

Deuteronomy 23:18There shall be no kedeshah (ritual prostitute) of the banot Yisroel, nor a kadesh (sodomite ritual prostitute) of the bnei Yisroel.

2 Chronicles 31:1Now when all this was completed, kol Yisroel that were present went out to the towns of Yehudah, and smashed the matzevot, and cut down the Asherim, and threw down the high places and the mizbechot throughout kol Yehudah and Binyamin, in Ephrayim also and Menasheh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the Bnei Yisroel returned, every ish to his achuzzah, into their own towns.

Isaiah 27:9By this therefore shall kapporah be made for the avon Ya'akov; 1 and this is full fruitage to take away + 27:9 Yehudahʼs chattat; 1 when He maketh all the stones of the [heathen] mizbe'ach 1 like chalk stones crushed to pieces, 1 the Asherim poles and pagan incense altars 1 shall arise no more. 1

Ezekiel 6:6In all your moshevot (dwellings) the towns shall be laid waste, and the + 6:6 idolatrous high places shall be desolate; that your mizbechot will be laid waste and made desolate, and your gillulim (idols) will be broken and cease, and your incense altars will be cut down, and your ma'asim will be abolished.

Hosea 2:12And now will I expose her navlut (lewdness) 1 in the sight of her lovers, 1 and none shall deliver her out of Mine hand. 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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