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Micah Chapter 1

Micah
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Micah

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In this chapter the prophet Micah declares that God has become angry with Jerusalem because of its wickedness. He tells the people to turn from their evil ways and seek the Lord, promising that He will judge them. The chapter sets the tone for God's judgment and the call to repentance.

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(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.
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Micah 1:14Micah 1:15Jeremiah 26:18II Chronicles 27:1II Chronicles 27:2II Chronicles 27:3II Chronicles 27:4II Chronicles 27:5II Chronicles 27:6II Chronicles 27:7II Chronicles 27:8II Chronicles 27:9

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Isaiah 1:1Jeremiah 16:3Jeremiah 27:19Hosea 1:1Jeremiah 26:18

(2) Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
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Micah 6:1Micah 6:2Deuteronomy 32:1Psalms 49:1Psalms 49:2Psalms 50:1Isaiah 1:2Jeremiah 22:29Mark 7:14Mark 7:15Mark 7:16Revelation 2:7

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Revelation 10:6Revelation 21:22I Samuel 12:5I John 5:9II Kings 11:11II Chronicles 23:10

(3) For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
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Isaiah 26:21Isaiah 64:1Isaiah 64:2Ezekiel 3:12Hosea 5:14Hosea 5:15Psalms 115:3Job 40:12Isaiah 2:10Isaiah 2:11Isaiah 2:12Isaiah 2:13

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Proverbs 1:27

(4) 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.
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Judges 5:4Psalms 97:5Isaiah 64:1Isaiah 64:2Isaiah 64:3Amos 9:5Nahum 1:5Habakkuk 3:6Habakkuk 3:10II Peter 3:10II Peter 3:11II Peter 3:12

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Genesis 1:6Joshua 3:13Ezekiel 47:4Joshua 11:21Ezekiel 6:3Ezekiel 36:4

(5) For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?
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II Kings 17:7II Kings 17:8II Kings 17:9II Kings 17:10II Kings 17:11II Kings 17:12II Kings 17:13II Kings 17:14II Kings 17:15II Kings 17:16II Kings 17:17II Kings 17:18

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Job 13:23Psalms 19:13Isaiah 58:1Daniel 9:24

(6) 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.
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Micah 3:12II Kings 19:25Isaiah 25:2Isaiah 25:12Jeremiah 9:11Jeremiah 51:37Hosea 13:16Jeremiah 51:25Lamentations 4:1Ezekiel 13:14Habakkuk 3:13Matthew 24:2

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Exodus 22:5I Chronicles 29:2Genesis 31:46I Kings 7:10Genesis 23:17Exodus 9:25

(7) 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.
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Leviticus 26:30II Kings 23:14II Kings 23:15II Chronicles 31:1II Chronicles 34:6II Chronicles 34:7Isaiah 27:9Hosea 8:6Hosea 10:5Hosea 10:6Jeremiah 44:17Jeremiah 44:18

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Song of Solomon 6:13Jeremiah 3:1II Chronicles 34:4Jeremiah 50:2Ezekiel 16:31Ezekiel 16:41

(8) Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
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Isaiah 16:9Isaiah 21:3Isaiah 22:4Jeremiah 4:19Jeremiah 9:1Jeremiah 9:10Jeremiah 9:19Jeremiah 48:36Jeremiah 48:37Jeremiah 48:38Jeremiah 48:39Isaiah 20:2

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Amos 5:16

(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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Isaiah 1:5Isaiah 1:6Jeremiah 15:18Jeremiah 30:11Jeremiah 30:12Jeremiah 30:13Jeremiah 30:14Jeremiah 30:15II Kings 18:9II Kings 18:10II Kings 18:11II Kings 18:12

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Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9Ezekiel 40:23Ezekiel 46:2Ezekiel 40:6Ezekiel 40:27

(10) Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
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II Samuel 1:20Amos 5:13Amos 6:10Joshua 18:23Job 2:8Jeremiah 6:26Lamentations 3:29

(11) Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Bethezel; he shall receive of you his standing.
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Isaiah 16:2Jeremiah 48:6Jeremiah 48:9Micah 1:8Isaiah 20:4Isaiah 47:2Isaiah 47:3Jeremiah 13:22Ezekiel 16:37Nahum 3:5

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Exodus 32:25

(12) For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
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Ruth 1:20I Samuel 4:13Job 30:26Isaiah 59:9Isaiah 59:10Isaiah 59:11Jeremiah 8:15Jeremiah 14:19Micah 1:9Isaiah 45:7Amos 3:6

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Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9Ezekiel 40:23Ezekiel 46:2Ezekiel 40:6Ezekiel 40:27

(13) O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
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Joshua 15:39II Kings 18:13II Kings 18:14II Kings 18:17II Chronicles 11:9II Chronicles 32:9Isaiah 37:8Genesis 19:17Isaiah 10:31Jeremiah 4:29Exodus 32:21I Kings 13:33

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Revelation 4:7Luke 12:53Leviticus 24:18Jeremiah 33:10Revelation 13:4Revelation 13:15

(14) Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moreshethgath: the houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.
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II Samuel 8:2II Kings 16:8II Kings 18:14II Kings 18:15II Kings 18:16II Chronicles 16:1II Chronicles 16:2II Chronicles 16:3Isaiah 30:6Psalms 62:9Psalms 118:8Psalms 118:9

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Exodus 10:6Jeremiah 19:13

(15) Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.
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Isaiah 7:17Isaiah 7:18Isaiah 7:19Isaiah 7:20Isaiah 7:21Isaiah 7:22Isaiah 7:23Isaiah 7:24Isaiah 7:25Isaiah 10:5Isaiah 10:6Jeremiah 49:1

(16) Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
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Job 1:20Isaiah 15:2Isaiah 22:12Jeremiah 6:26Jeremiah 7:29Jeremiah 16:6Amos 8:10Deuteronomy 28:56Deuteronomy 28:57Isaiah 3:16Isaiah 3:17Isaiah 3:18

Related verses (shared words)

Leviticus 13:42Ezekiel 16:53

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