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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).
Matthew 2:6 is the sixth verse of the second chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. The magi have informed King Herod that they had seen portents showing the birth of the King of the Jews. Herod has asked the leading Jewish religious figures about how to find out where Jesus was to be born.
This verse mainly serves as a lead into the next one, which is a quote from Micah chapter 5 , and Micah is thus the prophet mentioned here. It is notable that Matthew does not use his usual introduction to a quote from the Old Testament. Normally Matthew introduces a quote with the phrase "so it might be fulfilled," while in this verse he ...
Micah prophesied during the reigns of kings Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah of Judah. [4] [5] Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah from 742 to 735 BC, and was succeeded by his own son Ahaz, who reigned over Judah from 735 to 715 BC. Ahaz's son Hezekiah ruled from 715 to 696 BC. [6] Micah was a contemporary of the prophets Isaiah, Amos, and ...
Since the mid-16th century, editors have further subdivided each chapter into verses – each consisting of a few short lines or of one or more sentences. Sometimes a sentence spans more than one verse, as in the case of Ephesians 2:8–9, and sometimes there is more than one sentence in a single verse, as in the case of Genesis 1:2.
Matthew 10:21 is a verse in the tenth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. ... This prophecy of family strife is based upon Micah 7:6, which was ...
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Micah 2 is the second chapter of the Book of Micah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Micah , and is a part of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets .