Micah 1:1 Cross References - CLV

¹ The word of Yahweh which came to Micah the Morashite in the days of Jotham and Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he perceived concerning Samaria and Jerusalem:"

¹ A son of twenty and five years [is] Jotham in his reigning, and sixteen years he has reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Jerushah daughter of Zadok. ² And he does that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that Uzziah his father did; only, he has not come in unto the temple of Yahweh; and again are the people doing corruptly. ³ He has built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh, and in the wall of Ophel he has built abundantly;" ⁴ and cities he has built in the hill-country of Judah, and in the forests he has built palaces and towers. ⁵ And he has fought with the king of the sons of Ammon, and prevails over them, and the sons of Ammon give to him in that year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand cors of wheat, and of barley ten thousand; this have the sons of Ammon returned to him both in the second year, and in the third. ⁶ And Jotham does strengthen himself, for he has prepared his ways before Yahweh his Elohim. ⁷ And the rest of the matters of Jotham, and all his battles, and his ways, lo, they are written on the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. ⁸ A son of twenty and five years was he in his reigning, and sixteen years he has reigned in Jerusalem;" ⁹ and Jotham lies with his fathers, and they bury him in the city of David, and reign does Ahaz his son in his stead.

¹ The vision which was perceived by Isaiah, son of Amoz, which he perceives concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, and Jotham, and Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah."

⁹ And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If you are not believing, then you are not being faithful."

¹⁸ `Micah the Morashtite has been prophesying in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and he said unto all the people of Judah, saying:Thus said Yahweh of Hosts:Zion is a plowed field, and Jerusalem is heaps, And the mountain of the house is for high places of a forest."

¹ The word of Yahweh, which came to Hosea, son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah and Jotham and Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, son of Joash, king of Israel."

¹⁵ If you, Israel, are committing prostitution, let not Judah be guilty, and you must not be entering Gilgal, and you must not be going up to Beth-aven, and you must not be swearing, as Yahweh is living."

⁵ The pomp of Israel answers to his face, and Israel and Ephraim are being stumbled in their depravity; moreover, Judah stumbles with them." ⁶ With their flock and with their herd they shall go to seek Yahweh, and they shall not find Him; He liberates Himself from them." ⁷ They are treacherous against Yahweh, for they generate alien sons. Now the beetle shall devour them with their portions." ⁸ Blow a trumpet in Gibeah! A bugle in Ramah! Shout in Beth-aven:Look behind you, Benjamin!" ⁹ Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of correction; among the tribes of Israel I make known what is faithful. ¹⁰ The chiefs of Judah become as the movers of a boundary:I will pour out on them My rage, as water." ¹¹ Ephraim shall be extorted and bruised in judgment, for he is disposed to go after futilities." ¹² And I will be as a moth to Ephraim, and as rottenness to the house of Judah." ¹³ And Ephraim is seeing his illness, and Judah his malady; and Ephraim is going to Assyria, and he is sending messengers to king Jareb, yet he will not be able to heal you, nor will he cure you of your malady;" ¹⁴ for I will be as a black lion to Ephraim, and as a sheltered lion to the house of Judah. I, I, will tear to pieces and go and carry off, and there is no rescuing."

¹⁰ in the house of Israel. I see a horrible thing there:The prostitution of Ephraim; Israel is defiled. ¹¹ Moreover, Judah, a harvest is set for you. In My reversal of the captivity of My people,

¹⁴ Israel is forgetting his Maker, and he is building temples. And Judah increases defended cities. Yet I will send fire into his cities, and it shall devour their citadels."

¹ Ephraim is grazing on wind and is pursuing the east wind. The entire day he is increasing lying and futility, and they are contracting a covenant with Assyria, and oil is being fetched to Egypt." ² Yet Yahweh has a contention with Judah, and is to check over Jacob according to his ways, and according to his actions he will recompense him."

¹ The words of Amos, who came to be among the herdsmen from Tekoa, which he perceives concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake."

⁴ Thus says Yahweh, Due to three transgressions of Judah, and due to four, I will not turn it back, due to their rejecting the law of Yahweh. His statutes they do not keep. And their lies are leading them astray, lies after which their forefathers went." ⁵ I will send a fire into Judah, and it shall devour the citadels of Jerusalem." ⁶ Thus says Yahweh, Due to three transgressions of Israel, and due to four, I will not turn it back, due to their selling the righteous for silver, and the needy for the sake of a pair of sandals." ⁷ They are gasping to have the soil of the earth on the head of the poor, and the way of the humble are they turning aside, yet a man and his father are going to the same maiden, that they may violate the holy name of their Elohim." ⁸ On pledged garments are they stretching out beside every altar, and the wine of those fined are they drinking in the house of their elohim."

¹ Hear this word which Yahweh speaks against you, house of Israel, against the entire family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying:" ² But you do I know of all the families of the ground, therefore will I visit on you all your depravities."

¹ Woe to the tranquil in Zion and those trusting in the mountain of Samaria!--The specified men of the first of the nations, and to them to whom the house of Israel comes."

⁵ All this comes for the transgression of Jacob, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the sin of the house of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?

¹⁴ Wherefore you shall give dismissing notices to the tenants of Gath; the houses of Achzib are for a lie to the kings of Israel. ¹⁵ Still I will bring a tenant to you, dweller of Mareshah. Unto Adullam shall come the glory of the daughter of Israel."

¹ The load which Habakkuk the prophet perceived.