Micah 1:7

All 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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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

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

8For this reason I will lament and wail; 1 I will go barefoot and naked; 1 I will wail like the jackals 1 and mourn like owls. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:30I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and throw your corpses on the corpses of your idols, and I myself will abhor you.

Deuteronomy 23:18You must not bring the wages of a prostitute or the wages of a dog into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow; for both these are abominations to Yahweh your God.

2 Chronicles 31:1Now when all this was finished, all the people of Israel who were there went out to the cities of Judah and broke to pieces the stone pillars and they cut down the Asherah poles, and they broke down the high places and the altars in all of Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the people of Israel returned, every one to his own possession and his own city.

Isaiah 27:9So in this way, the iniquity of Jacob will be atoned for, for this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: 1 when he will make all the altar stones as chalk and crushed to pieces, 1 and no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing. 1

Ezekiel 6:6Everywhere you live, cities will be laid waste and the high places ruined, so that your altars will be laid waste and made desolate. Then they will be broken and disappear, your pillars will be cut down and your works will be wiped away.

Hosea 2:12“I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, 1 of which she has said, 1 'These are the wages that my lovers gave me.' 1 I will make them a forest, 1 and the animals of the field will eat them. 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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