Dict: smith - MICAH

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MICAH - M>@ - (who is like God?), the same name as Micaiah. MICAIAH An Israelite whose familiar story is preserved in the 17th and 18th chapters of Judges. Micah is evidently a devout believers in Jehovah, and yet so completely ignorant is he of the law of Jehovah that the mode which he adopts of honoring him is to make a molten and graven image, teraphim or images of domestic gods, and to set up an unauthorized priesthood, first in his own family, kjv@Judges:17:5) and then in the person of a Levite not of the priestly line. ver. kjv@Judges:17:12) A body of 600 Danites break in upon and steal his idols from him. The sixth in order of the minor prophets. He is called the Morasthite, that is, a native of Moresheth, a small village near Eleutheropolis to the east, where formerly the prophet’s tomb was shown, though in the days of Jerome it had been succeeded by a church. Micah exercised the prophetical office during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, giving thus a maximum limit of 59 years, B.C. 756-697, from the accession of Jotham to the death of Hezekiah, and a minimum limit of 16 years, B.C. 742-726, from the death of Jotham to the accession of Hezekiah. He was contemporary with Hosea and Amos during the part of their ministry in Israel, and with Isaiah in Judah. A descendant of Joel the Reubenite. ( kjv@1Chronicles:5:5) The son of Meribbaal or Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan. ( kjv@1Chronicles:8:34-35 kjv@1Chronicles:9:40-41) A Kohathite levite, the eldest son of Uzziel the brother of Amram. ( kjv@1Chronicles:23:30) The father of Abdon, a man of high station in the reign of Josiah. ( kjv@2Chronicles:34:20)

MICAH, THE BOOK OF - M>@ - Three sections of this work represent three natural divisions of the prophecy
1, 2; 3-5; 6-7
each commencing with rebukes and threatening and closing with a promise. The first section opens with a magnificent description of the coming of Jehovah to judgment for the sins and idolatries of Israel and Judah, ch. kjv@1:2-4, and the sentence pronounced upon Samaria, vs. 5-9, by the Judge himself. The sentence of captivity is passed upon them. kjv@Micah:2:10) but is followed instantly by a promise of restoration and triumphant return. ch. kjv@Micah:2:12-13) The second section is addressed especially to the princes and heads of the people: their avarice and rapacity are rebuked in strong terms; but the threatening is again succeeded by a promise of restoration. In the last section, chs. 6-7, Jehovah, by a bold poetical figure, is represented as holding a controversy with his people, pleading with them in justification of his conduct toward them and the reasonableness of his requirements. The whole concludes with a triumphal song of joy at the great deliverance, like that from Egypt, which jehovah will achieve, and a full acknowledgment of his mercy and faithfulness of his promises. vs. 16-20. The last verse is reproduced in the song of Zacharias. kjv@Luke:1:72-73) Micah’s prophecies are distinct and clear. He it is who says that the Ruler shall spring from Bethlehem. ch. kjv@Luke:5:2) His style has been compared with that of Hosea and Isaiah. His diction is vigorous and forcible, sometimes obscure from the abruptness of its transitions, but varied and rich.