--- title: "Micah 1 - Study King James Bible with pooles english annotations on the holy bible" description: "Read Micah 1 with pooles english annotations on the holy bible commentary. 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 Je" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/pooles-english-annotations-on-the-holy-bible/micah/1" --- [ Read](/kjv/micah/1)[ Commentary](/study/micah/1)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/micah/1) Audio 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. 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.** 3 For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. 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.* 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? 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. 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. 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.* 9 For her wound *is* incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, *even* to Jerusalem.* 10 ΒΆ Declare ye *it* not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.* 11 Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Beth-ezel; he shall receive of you his standing.**** 12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.** 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.* 14 Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moresheth-gath: the houses of Achzib *shall be* a lie to the kings of Israel.** 15 Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.** 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. [Jonah 4](/study/jonah/4) [Micah 2](/study/micah/2) ## Commentary To verse 1 The word of the Lord that came: thus Hosea begins his prophecy, [Hosea 1:1](/kjv/hosea/1/1), and [Joel 1:1](/kjv/joel/1/1), and [Jonah 1:0](/kjv/jonah/1/0):, and [Zephaniah 1:1](/kjv/zephaniah/1/1), which see. Micah: though Hierom, Epiphanius, and Dorotheus are said to report this Micah to be the same with the son of Imlah, [1 Kings 22:8](/kjv/1-kings/22/8), yet R. Sol. Jarchi's reason why this could not be is satisfactory, for one generation and almost a half intervened between Ahab and Jotham; Ahab died about A.M. 3046, Jotham began to reign about A.M. 3190, by which it appears there were one hundred and forty-four years between Micaiah the son of Imlah and Micah our prophet. The Morasthite: whether Mareshah, rebuilt by Rehoboam [2 Chronicles 11:8](/kjv/2-chronicles/11/8), (called also Beth-gebarim in after-time,) of which [2 Chronicles 11:14](/kjv/2-chronicles/11/14) of this chapter, or whether Moresheth, of which [2 Chronicles 11:15](/kjv/2-chronicles/11/15), gave him this surname, and whether because Micah was born there or else did dwell there, is not easily resolved, nor material if it were resolved. In the days of Jotham: it is not said what year of Jotham this prophet begun, it is probable it was about the beginning of Jotham's reign, A.M. 3190, of which we have this character, [2 Kings 15:34](/kjv/2-kings/15/34),[2 Kings 15:35](/kjv/2-kings/15/35), He did right, &c., yet the high places were not removed. Religion was not wholly corrupted as in Israel, yet was it exceedingly abased with their own mixtures. Ahaz; the very worst of all Judah's kings, all things considered; he brought the Baalitical idolatry into Judah. Hezekiah; the best son of the worst father, who reformed Judah. How long Micah prophesied during his reign we can but conjecture, possibly till the fourteenth year of Hezekiah. So this prophet may be supposed to have prophesied sixteen years in Jotham's time, as many under Ahaz, and fourteen under Hezekiah, in all forty-six years, and survived the captivity of Israel ten years, which he lamented as well as foretold. Kings of Judah; Judah only named, but Benjamin is included. Which he saw: see [Amos 1:1](/kjv/amos/1/1). Concerning Samaria; the metropolis of the kingdom of the ten tribes, and by a well-known figure put for the whole kingdom, as Jerusalem, chief city of Judah, is, by the same figure, put for the whole kingdom. 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