It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth and kill him, for they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar from the people.”And while he was at Bethany in the houseContinue reading “Mark 14: 1-9…..How much is Jesus worth?”
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Micah 3: 9-12……A plain and damning declaration.
Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacoband rulers of the house of Israel,who detest justiceand make crooked all that is straight,who build Zion with bloodand Jerusalem with iniquity.Its heads give judgment for a bribe;its priests teach for a price;its prophets practice divination for money;yet they lean on the LORD and say,“Is not theContinue reading “Micah 3: 9-12……A plain and damning declaration.”
Micah 3: 5-8…..Leaders yesterday, advisers today!
Thus says the LORD concerning the prophetswho lead my people astray,who cry “Peace”when they have something to eat,but declare war against himwho puts nothing into their mouths.Therefore it shall be night to you, without vision,and darkness to you, without divination.The sun shall go down on the prophets,and the day shall be black over them;the seersContinue reading “Micah 3: 5-8…..Leaders yesterday, advisers today!”
Micah 3: 1-4……Pretty Gruesome!
And I said:Hear, you heads of Jacoband rulers of the house of Israel!Is it not for you to know justice?—you who hate the good and love the evil,who tear the skin from off my peopleand their flesh from off their bones,who eat the flesh of my people,and flay their skin from off them,and break theirContinue reading “Micah 3: 1-4……Pretty Gruesome!”
Micah 2: 12&13…..I notice those who are true to me!
I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob;I will gather the remnant of Israel;I will set them togetherlike sheep in a fold,like a flock in its pasture,a noisy multitude of men.He who opens the breach goes up before them;they break through and pass the gate,going out by it.Their king passes on before them,the LORDContinue reading “Micah 2: 12&13…..I notice those who are true to me!”
Micah 2: 6-11…..A resumé.
6. “Do not preach”—thus they preach—“one should not preach of such things;disgrace will not overtake us.”7. Should this be said, O house of Jacob?Has the LORD grown impatient?Are these his deeds?Do not my words do goodto him who walks uprightly?8. But lately my people have risen up as an enemy;you strip the rich robe fromContinue reading “Micah 2: 6-11…..A resumé.”
Micah 2: 1-5…..Why is God taking action?
* Woe to those who devise wickednessand work evil on their beds!When the morning dawns, they perform it,because it is in the power of their hand.** They covet fields and seize them,and houses, and take them away;they oppress a man and his house,a man and his inheritance.*** Therefore thus says the LORD:behold, against this familyContinue reading “Micah 2: 1-5…..Why is God taking action?”
Micah 1: 10-16…..Listen, all of you!
Tell it not in Gath;weep not at all;in Beth-le-aphrahroll yourselves in the dust.Pass on your way,inhabitants of Shaphir,in nakedness and shame;the inhabitants of Zaanando not come out;the lamentation of Beth-ezelshall take away from you its standing place.For the inhabitants of Marothwait anxiously for good,because disaster has come down from the LORDto the gate of Jerusalem.HarnessContinue reading “Micah 1: 10-16…..Listen, all of you!”
Micah 1: 6-9…..For ‘she/her’ read Samaria.
Therefore I will make Samaria a heap in the open country,a place for planting vineyards,and I will pour down her stones into the valleyand uncover her foundations.All her carved images shall be beaten to pieces,all her wages shall be burned with fire,and all her idols I will lay waste,for from the fee of a prostituteContinue reading “Micah 1: 6-9…..For ‘she/her’ read Samaria.”
Micah 1: 1-5…..Setting the scene.
The word of the LORD that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.The Coming DestructionHear, you peoples, all of you;pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it,and let the Lord GOD be a witness against you,the LordContinue reading “Micah 1: 1-5…..Setting the scene.”
As I read it! 