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Micah 1 Summary
The Lord's Coming Judgment on Israel
Micah reveals the word of the LORD against Samaria and Jerusalem during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. The LORD comes forth from his holy temple to judge; the mountains will melt and valleys split under his feet like wax before fire, all because of Jacob's transgression and Israel's sins. Samaria shall be destroyed—its stones scattered, its idols broken and burned, for they were gathered from harlots' wages. Micah mourns this destruction as an incurable wound spreading to Judah and Jerusalem, calling its cities to lament their coming captivity.
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Key verses
Micah 1:1
“The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.”
Micah 1:3-4
“For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.”
Micah 1:6-7
“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. 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.”
Micah 1:9
“For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.”
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