Micah 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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In The King James Version

Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.

In Context

5All 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

7All her carved figures will be broken to pieces, 1 and all her gifts that she received will be burned with fire, 1 and I will destroy all her idols. 1 Since she gathered her gifts from the wages of prostitutes, 1 they will become the wages of prostitutes again.” 1

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Cross References

2 Kings 18:9In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it.

2 Kings 19:25Have you not heard how I 2 determined it long ago, 1 and worked it out in ancient times? 2 Now I am bringing it to pass. 1 You are here to reduce impregnable cities 2 into heaps of ruins. 1

Isaiah 25:12Your high fortress walls he will bring down to the ground, to the dust.

Jeremiah 51:25See, I am against you, mountain of destruction—this is Yahweh's declaration—which destroys the whole earth. 1 I will stretch out my hand against you, and roll you down from the cliffs, 1 and make you a burned-out mountain. 1

Lamentations 4:1The gold has become tarnished; how the purest gold has changed! 1 The holy stones are scattered at the corner of every street. 1

Hosea 13:16Samaria will be guilty, 1 for she has rebelled against her God. 1 They will fall by the sword; 1 their young children will be dashed to pieces, 1 and their pregnant women will be ripped open.

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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