Micah 1:5

All this is because of the Jacob's transgression, 1 and because of the sins of the house of Israel. 1 What is Jacob's transgression? 1 Is it not Samaria? 1 What is Judah's high place? 1 Is it not Jerusalem? 1

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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?

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4The mountains will melt under him; 1 the valleys will break apart, 1 like wax before fire, 1 like waters that are poured down a steep place. 1

6“I will make Samaria a heap of ruins in the field, 1 a place for planting vineyards, 1 and I will pour her stones down into the valley 1 and I will uncover her foundations. 1

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Cross References

1 Kings 13:32For the message he declared by the word of Yahweh, against the altar in Bethel and against all the houses on the high places in the cities of Samaria, will certainly happen.”

2 Kings 16:3Instead, he walked in the way of the kings of Israel; indeed, he made his son pass through the fire, following the detestable practices of the nations, which Yahweh had driven out before the people of Israel.

2 Kings 17:7This captivity happened because the people of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who had brought them up from the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. The people had been worshiping other gods

2 Chronicles 28:2Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel; he also made cast metal figures for the Baals.

2 Chronicles 28:23For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, gods that had defeated him. He said, “Because the gods of the kings of Aram helped them, I will sacrifice to them, so that they might help me.” But they were the ruin of him and of all Israel.

Isaiah 50:1This is what Yahweh says, 1 “Where is the certificate of divorce with which I divorced your mother? 1 To which of my creditors did I sell you? 1 Look, you were sold because of your sins, and because of your rebellion, your mother was 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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