Micah
Israelite / Jew Hebrew; the Morasthite (Judah) · Divided Kingdom · Old Testament
- Name means
- Who is like the LORD?
- Role
- Prophet of Judah
- When
- 8th century BC (reigns of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah)
What they did
Warned Samaria and Jerusalem of judgment and called God's people to do justly, love mercy and walk humbly with God. He foretold that the ruler of Israel would come from Bethlehem.
Why it matters: the purpose of their role
His prophecy of Bethlehem was fulfilled in Christ's birth, and he saw many nations coming to learn the ways of the LORD (Micah 4:2).
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 (KJV)
Bible references
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. Micah 1:1 (KJV)
And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. Micah 4:2 (KJV)
But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. Micah 5:2 (KJV)
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 (KJV)
Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest. Jeremiah 26:18 (KJV)
Family
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