The Book of Micah

MICAH - The Prophet Micah was a younger contemporary of Isaiah and spoke at a time when conditions in Judah paralleled those in the northern kingdom of Israel during Amos’ day. Micah’s messages are strikingly similar to those of Amos: many of the same sins are denounced and the same rugged, direct, indignant, and convincing language is used. While announcing God’s certain judgment upon sin, he also spoke of a sure deliverance to come through the Messiah whose place of birth he predicts.

Author: Prophet Micah

kjv@Judges:17	Micah:'s Idols
kjv@Micah:1:1-2	Introduction
kjv@Micah:1:3-7	Judgment Against Samaria and Jersalem
kjv@Micah:1:8-16	Weeping and Mourning
kjv@Micah:2:1-5	Man's Plans and God's
kjv@Micah:2:6-11	False Prophets
kjv@Micah:2:12-13	Deliverance Promised
kjv@Micah:3	Leaders and Prophets Rebuked
kjv@Micah:4:1-5	The Mountain of the LORD
kjv@Micah:4:6-13	The LORD'S Plan
kjv@Micah:5:1-5	A Promised Ruler From Bethlehem
kjv@Micah:5:6-15	Deliverance and Destruction
kjv@Micah:6:1-8	The LORD'S Case Against Israel
kjv@Micah:6:9-16	Israel's Guilt and Punishment
kjv@Micah:7:1-7	Israel's Misery
kjv@Micah:7:8-13	Israel Will Rise
kjv@Micah:7:14-20	Prayer and Praise

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Micah, Book of @ the sixth in order of the so-called minor prophets. The superscription to this book states that the prophet exercised his office in the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. If we reckon from the beginning of Jotham's reign to the end of Hezekiah's (B.C. 759-698), then he ministered for about fifty-nine years; but if we reckon from the death of Jotham to the accession of Hezekiah (B.C. 743-726), his ministry lasted only sixteen years. It has been noticed as remarkable that this book commences with the last words of another prophet, "Micaiah the son of Imlah" (kjvKings:22:28): "Hearken, O people, every one of you." The book consists of three sections, each commencing with a rebuke, "Hear ye," etc., and closing with a promise,

(1) ch. 1; 2;

(2) ch. 3-5, especially addressed to the princes and heads of the people;

(3) ch. 6-7, in which Jehovah is represented as holding a controversy with his people: the whole concluding with a song of triumph at the great deliverance which the Lord will achieve for his people. The closing verse is quoted in the song of Zacharias kjv@Luke:1:72-73). The prediction regarding the place "where Christ should be born," one of the most remarkable Messianic prophecies kjv@Micah:5:2), is quoted in kjv@Matthew:2:6. There are the following references to this book in the New Testament: 5:2, with kjv@Matthew:2:6; kjv@John:7:42. 7:6, with kjv@Matthew:10:21-35-36. 7:20, with kjv@Luke:1:72-73.

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