Micah

Micah 1:3–7 (LSB) Context  Micah prophesies during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah (ca. 750–690 BC), addressing both the northern kingdom (Israel/Samaria) and the southern kingdom (Judah/Jerusalem). Chapter 1 opens with a theophany of judgment: Yahweh Himself is coming to judge His own covenant people for their idolatry and covenant unfaithfulness. The passage moves from cosmic imagery of divine descent to the specific sins of the capitals (Samaria and Jerusalem) and

Micah 1:1–2 (LSB) Context and Authorship (v. 1) “The word of Yahweh which came to Micah of Moresheth”  The book opens with the classic prophetic superscription formula (“the word of Yahweh that came to…”), emphasizing that Micah’s message is not human opinion but direct divine revelation. Micah (Heb. מִיכָה, Mîkāh = “Who is like Yahweh?”) is from Moresheth (probably Moresheth-gath, a town southwest of Jerusalem in the Shephelah, near the Philistine border; cf. Mic 1:14). His

Micah 2:1–5 (LSB) Context  Micah prophesies during the late 8th century BC (ca. 735–700 BC) to both Samaria (Northern Kingdom) and Jerusalem (Southern Kingdom), though the immediate audience in ch. 2 is the wealthy land-owning elite of Judah (especially Jerusalem). The oracle in 2:1–5 is the first of three woe-oracles (2:1–5, 6–11; 3:1–12) that condemn social injustice, particularly the violent dispossession of small farmers by the powerful. This practice violated the heart o