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The Book of Micah is the sixth of the twelve minor prophets in the Hebrew Bible. [1] [a] Ostensibly, it records the sayings of Micah, whose name is Mikayahu (Hebrew: מִיכָיָ֫הוּ), meaning "Who is like Yahweh?", [3] an 8th-century BCE prophet from the village of Moresheth in Judah (Hebrew name from the opening verse: מיכה המרשתי).
Micah was a contemporary of the prophets Isaiah, Amos, and Hosea. [7] Jeremiah, who prophesied about thirty years after Micah, recognized Micah as a prophet from Moresheth who prophesied during the reign of Hezekiah, [8] quoting text found in Micah 3:12. [9]
The Twelve Minor Prophets (Hebrew: שנים עשר, Shneim Asar; Imperial Aramaic: תרי עשר, Trei Asar, "Twelve") (Ancient Greek: δωδεκαπρόφητον, "the Twelve Prophets"), or the Book of the Twelve, is a collection of prophetic books, written between about the 8th and 4th centuries BCE, which are in both the Jewish Tanakh and Christian Old Testament.
The events leading up to the appearance of Micaiah are illustrated in 1 Kings 22:1–12. In 1 Kings 22:1–4, Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah goes to visit the King of Israel (identified later, in 1 Kings 22:20, as Ahab), and asks if he will go with him to take over Ramoth-gilead which was under the rule of the king of Aram.
Micah, an Ephraimite, whose narrative features in Judges 17 and Judges 18; Micah son of Mephibosheth son of Jonathan son of Saul, the first king of Israel (1 Chronicles 9:40) Micah (prophet), eponymous prophet of the Book of Micah in the Old Testament; Micaiah, a prophet and the son of Imlah, who gave a negative prophecy to Ahab on his request
Pages in category "Book of Micah" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Judges 17 is the seventeenth chapter of the Book of Judges in the Old Testament or the Hebrew Bible. [1] According to Jewish tradition the book was attributed to the prophet Samuel, [2] [3] but modern scholars view it as part of the Deuteronomistic History, which spans in the books of Deuteronomy to 2 Kings, attributed to nationalistic and devotedly Yahwistic writers during the time of the ...
Micah and the Danites. Woodcut by Johann Christoph Weigel, 1695. The narrative of Micah's Idol, recounted in Judges (chapters 17 and 18) concerns the Tribe of Dan, their conquest of Laish, and the sanctuary that was subsequently created there. [1] Micah makes a teraphim and other objects of piety, which are later installed at the founding of ...