Micah
God raised up certain "prophets" who were His mouthpieces.
They would speak out against their sin and idolatry and would
continually warn of God's judgment. Some of the prophets spoke
out in the North and some in the South, but God was faithfully
warning them of certain catastrophe if they would not turn to
him....
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Micah of Moresheth (most likely the same city as Moresheth-
Gath, mentioned in Micah) prophesied during the days of King
Hezekiah of Judah. This paraphrase of Jeremiah 26:18 contains
practically everything we know of the Prophet himself.
Moresheth-Gath was most likely a small town in southwestern
Judah, though this has yet to be confirmed. Some...
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4. Contents of the Prophecies:
Micah combats in his discourses, as does Isaiah, the
heathenish abuses which had found their way into the cult,
not only in Samaria, but also in Judah and Jerusalem, and
which the reformation of Hezekiah could counteract only in
part and not at all permanently (compare Mic 1:5-7; 5:11-13;
6:7,16). Further, he reb...
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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. 1:2-4, and the sentence pronou...
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(who is like God?), the same name as Micaiah. [MICAIAH]
1. 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, terap...
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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 dea...
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a shortened form of Micaiah, who is like Jehovah? (1.) A man
of
Mount Ephraim, whose history so far is introduced in
Judg. 17,
apparently for the purpose of leading to an account
of the
settlement of the tribe of Dan in Northern Israel,
and for
the purpose also of illustrating the lawlessness of
the times in
which he lived (Judg. 18; 19:1...
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1. Of Mount Ephraim. (See JONATHAN.) The date of the event
is implied as before Samson, for the origin of the name
Mahaneh Dan occurs in this narrative (Judges 18:12) and it
is mentioned as already so named in Samson's childhood
(Judges 13:25, margin). Josephus places the synchronous
narrative of the Levite and his concubine at the beginning
...
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