Micah 1:1 Cross References - MLV

¹ The word of Jehovah that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

¹ Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.
² And he did what was right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that his father Uzziah had done. However he did not enter into the temple of Jehovah. And the people still did corruptly. ³ He built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah and on the wall of Ophel he built much. ⁴ Moreover he built cities in the hill-country of Judah and in the forests he built castles and towers.
⁵ Also he fought with the king of the sons of Ammon and prevailed against them. And the sons of Ammon gave him the same year a hundred talants of silver and ten thousand measures of wheat and ten thousand of barley. So much did the sons of Ammon render to him, in the second year also and in the third. ⁶ So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before Jehovah his God.
⁷ Now the rest of the acts of Jotham and all his wars and his ways, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. ⁸ He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. ⁹ And Jotham slept with his fathers and they buried him in the city of David. And Ahaz his son reigned instead of him.

¹ The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, 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* will not believe, surely you* will not be established.

¹⁸ Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Jehovah of hosts says thus: Zion will be plowed as a field and Jerusalem will become heaps and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

¹ The word of Jehovah that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, King of Israel.

¹⁵ Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, yet do not let Judah offend and do not come to Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-aven, nor swear, As Jehovah lives.

⁵ And the pride of Israel testifies to his face.
Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them. ⁶ They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Jehovah, but they will not find him. He has withdrawn himself from them. ⁷ They have dealt treacherously against Jehovah, for they have borne strange sons. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.
⁸ Blow you* the cornet in Gibeah and the trumpet in Ramah. Shout an alarm at Beth-aven, behind you, O Benjamin. ⁹ Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. I have made known what will surely be among the tribes of Israel.
¹⁰ The rulers of Judah are like those who remove the landmark. I will pour out my wrath upon them like water. ¹¹ Ephraim is oppressed. He is crushed in judgment, because he was content to walk after man's command.
¹² Therefore I am to Ephraim as a moth and to the house of Judah as rottenness. ¹³ When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah saw his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to King Jareb. But he is not able to heal you*, nor will he cure you* of your* wound.
¹⁴ For I will be to Ephraim as a lion and as a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear and go away, I will carry off and there will be none to deliver.

¹⁰ I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel. Prostitution is there in Ephraim; Israel is defiled. ¹¹ Also, O Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you when I bring back the captivity of my people.

¹⁴ For Israel has forgotten his maker and built palaces. And Judah has multiplied fortified cities. But I will send a fire upon his cities and it will devour the castles of it.

¹ Ephraim feeds on wind and follows after the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. And they make a covenant with Assyria and oil is carried into Egypt.
² Jehovah has also a controversy with Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways. He will recompense him according to his practices.

¹ The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash King of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

⁴ Jehovah says thus: For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have rejected the law of Jehovah and have not kept his statutes and their lies have made them go-astray, according to which their fathers walked. ⁵ But I will send a fire upon Judah and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
⁶ Jehovah says thus: For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have sold a righteous man for silver and a needy man for a pair of shoes– ⁷ those who pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor and turn aside the way of the meek. And a man and his father go to the same maiden, to profane my holy name. ⁸ And they lay themselves down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge. And in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined.

¹ Hear this word that Jehovah has spoken against you*, O sons of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying, ² You* only I have known of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will visit upon you* all your* iniquities.

¹ Woe to those who are at ease in Zion and to those who are secure in the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!

⁵ All this is 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 are the high places of Judah? Are they not Jerusalem?

¹⁴ Therefore you will give a parting gift to Moresheth-gath. The houses of Achzib will be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.
¹⁵ I will yet bring to you, O inhabitant of Mareshah, he who will possess you. The glory of Israel will come even to Adullam.

¹ The burden which Habakkuk the prophet saw.