Micah 1:1-8

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1 The word of the Lord that came to Micah ^(A)of Moresheth ^(B)in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw ^(C)concerning ^(D)Samaria and Jerusalem.

The Coming Destruction

²^(E)Hear, you peoples, all of you;^[a]
    ^(F)pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it,
and ^(G)let the Lord God be a witness against you,
    ^(H)the Lord from his holy temple.
³For behold, ^(I)the Lord is coming out of ^(J)his place,
    and will come down and ^(K)tread upon the high places of the earth.
⁴And ^(L)the mountains will melt under him,
    and the valleys will split open,
like wax before the fire,
    like waters poured down a steep place.
⁵All this is for ^(M)the transgression of Jacob
    and for the sins of the house of Israel.
^(N)What is the transgression of Jacob?
    Is it not ^(O)Samaria?
And what is ^(P)the high place of Judah?
    Is it not Jerusalem?
⁶Therefore I will make ^(Q)Samaria ^(R)a heap in the open country,
    a place for planting vineyards,
and I will pour down her stones ^(S)into the valley
    and ^(T)uncover her foundations.
⁷All ^(U)her carved images shall be beaten to pieces,
    ^(V)all her wages shall be burned with fire,
    and all her idols I will lay waste,
for from ^(W)the fee of a prostitute she gathered them,
    and to the fee of a prostitute they shall return.

⁸^(X)For this I will lament and wail;
I will go ^(Y)stripped and naked;
I will make lamentation ^(Z)like the jackals,
and mourning ^(AA)like the ostriches.

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Micah 1:2 Hebrew all of them

2 Kings 17:3-23

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³^(A)Against him came up ^(B)Shalmaneser king of Assyria. And Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute. ⁴But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison. ⁵Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Samaria, and for three years he besieged it.

The Fall of Israel

⁶In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria ^(C)captured Samaria, ^(D)and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria ^(E)and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of ^(F)Gozan, and in the cities of ^(G)the Medes.

Exile Because of Idolatry

⁷And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, ^(H)who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods ⁸^(I)and walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel, ^(J)and in the customs that the kings of Israel had practiced. ⁹And the people of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places in all their towns, ^(K)from watchtower to fortified city. ¹⁰They set up for themselves ^(L)pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree, ¹¹and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the Lord carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the Lord to anger, ¹²and they served idols, ^(M)of which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this.” ¹³Yet the Lord ^(N)warned Israel and Judah ^(O)by every prophet ^(P)and every seer, saying, ^(Q)“Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”

¹⁴But they would not listen, ^(R)but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God. ¹⁵They despised his statutes ^(S)and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after ^(T)false idols ^(U)and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the ^(V)Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them. ¹⁶And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves metal images of ^(W)two calves; and they ^(X)made an Asherah and ^(Y)worshiped all the host of heaven and served ^(Z)Baal. ¹⁷^(AA)And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings^[a] and used ^(AB)divination and ^(AC)omens and ^(AD)sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. ¹⁸Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but ^(AE)the tribe of Judah only.

¹⁹^(AF)Judah also did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced. ²⁰And the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them ^(AG)and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.

²¹^(AH)When he had torn Israel from the house of David, ^(AI)they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. And Jeroboam drove Israel from following the Lord ^(AJ)and made them commit great sin. ²²The people of Israel walked in all the sins that Jeroboam did. They did not depart from them, ²³until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, ^(AK)as he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. ^(AL)So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.

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2 Kings 17:17 Or made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire

2 Kings 18:7-12

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⁷^(A)And the Lord was with him; wherever he went out, ^(B)he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and would not serve him. ⁸^(C)He struck down the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, ^(D)from watchtower to fortified city.

⁹In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, ^(E)Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it, ¹⁰and at the end of three years he took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. ¹¹The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria and put them in ^(F)Halah, and on the ^(G)Habor, ^(H)the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, ¹²because they did not obey the voice of the Lord their God but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded. They neither listened nor obeyed.

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2 Kings 17:24-41

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Assyria Resettles Samaria

²⁴^(A)And the king of Assyria brought people from ^(B)Babylon, Cuthah, ^(C)Avva, ^(D)Hamath, and ^(E)Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the people of Israel. And they took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities. ²⁵And at the beginning of their dwelling there, they did not fear the Lord. Therefore the Lord sent lions among them, which killed some of them. ²⁶So the king of Assyria was told, “The nations that you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they are killing them, because they do not know the law of the god of the land.” ²⁷Then the king of Assyria commanded, “Send there one of the priests whom you carried away from there, and let him^[a] go and dwell there and teach them the law of the god of the land.” ²⁸So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in ^(F)Bethel and taught them how they should fear the Lord.

²⁹But every nation still made gods of its own and put them ^(G)in the shrines of the high places that the Samaritans had made, every nation in the cities in which they lived. ³⁰The men of ^(H)Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima, ³¹and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites ^(I)burned their children in the fire to ^(J)Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of ^(K)Sepharvaim. ³²^(L)They also feared the Lord ^(M)and appointed from among themselves all sorts of people as priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of ^(N)the high places. ³³So they feared the Lord but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.

³⁴To this day they do according to the former manner. They do not fear the Lord, and they do not follow the statutes or the rules or the law or the commandment that the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, ^(O)whom he named Israel. ³⁵The Lord made a covenant with them and commanded them, ^(P)“You shall not fear other gods ^(Q)or bow yourselves to them or serve them or sacrifice to them, ³⁶but ^(R)you shall fear the Lord, ^(S)who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power and ^(T)with an outstretched arm. You shall bow yourselves to him, and to him you shall sacrifice. ³⁷And the statutes and the rules and the law and the commandment that he wrote for you, ^(U)you shall always be careful to do. ^(V)You shall not fear other gods, ³⁸and ^(W)you shall not forget the covenant that I have made with you. ^(X)You shall not fear other gods, ³⁹but ^(Y)you shall fear the Lord your God, and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.” ⁴⁰However, they would not listen, but they did according to their former manner.

⁴¹^(Z)So these nations feared the Lord and also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children's children—as their fathers did, so they do to this day.

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2 Kings 17:27 Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew them

Isaiah 5

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The Vineyard of the Lord Destroyed

5 Let me sing for my beloved
    my love song concerning his vineyard:
My beloved had ^(A)a vineyard
    on a very fertile hill.
²He dug it and cleared it of stones,
    and planted it with ^(B)choice vines;
he built a watchtower in the midst of it,
    and hewed out a wine vat in it;
and ^(C)he looked for it to yield grapes,
    but it yielded wild grapes.

³And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem
    and men of Judah,
judge between me and my vineyard.
⁴^(D)What more was there to do for my vineyard,
    that I have not done in it?
^(E)When I looked for it to yield grapes,
    why did it yield wild grapes?

⁵And now I will tell you
    what I will do to my vineyard.
I will remove ^(F)its hedge,
    and it shall be devoured;^[a]
^(G)I will break down its wall,
    and it shall be trampled down.
⁶I will make it a waste;
    it shall not be pruned or hoed,
    and ^(H)briers and thorns shall grow up;
^(I)I will also command the clouds
    that they rain no rain upon it.

⁷^(J)For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts
    is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah
    are his pleasant planting;
and he looked for justice,
    but behold, bloodshed;^[b]
for righteousness,
    but behold, an outcry!^[c]

Woe to the Wicked

⁸Woe to those who ^(K)join house to house,
    who add field to field,
until there is no more room,
    and you are made to dwell alone
    in the midst of the land.
⁹The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing:
^(L)“Surely many houses shall be desolate,
    large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.
¹⁰^(M)For ten acres^[d] of vineyard shall yield but one bath,
    and a ^(N)homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.”^[e]

¹¹Woe to those who ^(O)rise early in the morning,
    that they may run after strong drink,
who tarry late into the evening
    as wine inflames them!
¹²^(P)They have lyre and harp,
    tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts,
^(Q)but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord,
    or see the work of his hands.

¹³Therefore my people go into exile
    ^(R)for lack of knowledge;^[f]
their ^(S)honored men go hungry,^[g]
    and their multitude is parched with thirst.
¹⁴Therefore Sheol has ^(T)enlarged its appetite
    and opened ^(U)its mouth beyond measure,
and the nobility of Jerusalem^[h] and her multitude will go down,
    her revelers and he who ^(V)exults in her.
¹⁵^(W)Man is humbled, and each one is brought low,
    and the eyes of the haughty^[i] are brought low.
¹⁶^(X)But the Lord of hosts is exalted^[j] in justice,
    and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.
¹⁷Then shall the lambs graze ^(Y)as in their pasture,
    and ^(Z)nomads shall eat among the ruins of the rich.

¹⁸Woe to those who draw iniquity with ^(AA)cords of falsehood,
    who draw sin as with cart ropes,
¹⁹who say: ^(AB)“Let him be quick,
    let him speed his work
    that we may see it;
let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near,
    and let it come, that we may know it!”
²⁰Woe to ^(AC)those who call evil good
    and good evil,
^(AD)who put darkness for light
    and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
    and sweet for bitter!
²¹Woe to those who are ^(AE)wise in their own eyes,
    and shrewd in their own sight!
²²Woe to those who are ^(AF)heroes at drinking wine,
    and valiant men in mixing strong drink,
²³who ^(AG)acquit the guilty for a bribe,
    and deprive the innocent of his right!

²⁴Therefore, ^(AH)as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
    and as dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so ^(AI)their root will be ^(AJ)as rottenness,
    and their blossom go up like dust;
for they have ^(AK)rejected the law of the Lord of hosts,
    and have ^(AL)despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
²⁵Therefore ^(AM)the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people,
    and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them,
    and ^(AN)the mountains quaked;
and their corpses were ^(AO)as refuse
    in the midst of the streets.
^(AP)For all this his anger has not turned away,
    and his hand is stretched out still.

²⁶He will ^(AQ)raise a signal for nations far away,
    and ^(AR)whistle for them ^(AS)from the ends of the earth;
and behold, quickly, speedily they come!
²⁷^(AT)None is weary, none stumbles,
    none slumbers or sleeps,
not a waistband is loose,
    not a sandal strap broken;
²⁸^(AU)their arrows are sharp,
    all their bows bent,
their horses' hoofs seem like flint,
    and their wheels ^(AV)like the whirlwind.
²⁹Their roaring is like a lion,
    like young lions they roar;
they growl and ^(AW)seize their prey;
    they carry it off, and none can rescue.
³⁰They will growl over it on that day,
    like the growling of the sea.
And if one looks to the land,
    behold, ^(AX)darkness and distress;
and the light is darkened by its clouds.

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Isaiah 5:5 Or grazed over; compare Exodus 22:5
Isaiah 5:7 The Hebrew words for justice and bloodshed sound alike
Isaiah 5:7 The Hebrew words for righteous and outcry sound alike
Isaiah 5:10 Hebrew ten yoke, the area ten yoke of oxen can plow in a day
Isaiah 5:10 A bath was about 6 gallons or 22 liters; a homer was about 6 bushels or 220 liters; an ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
Isaiah 5:13 Or without their knowledge
Isaiah 5:13 Or die of hunger
Isaiah 5:14 Hebrew her nobility
Isaiah 5:15 Hebrew high
Isaiah 5:16 Hebrew high

2 Kings 16:19-20

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¹⁹Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz that he did, are they not written ^(A)in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? ²⁰And Ahaz slept with his fathers and ^(B)was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.

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2 Chronicles 28:26-27

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²⁶^(A)Now the rest of his acts and all his ways, from first to last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel. ²⁷And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, for ^(B)they did not bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel. And Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.

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2 Kings 18:1-2

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Hezekiah Reigns in Judah

18 ^(A)In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, ^(B)Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign. ²He was ^(C)twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was ^(D)Abi the daughter of Zechariah.

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2 Chronicles 29:1

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Hezekiah Reigns in Judah

29 ^(A)Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Abijah^[a] the daughter of ^(B)Zechariah.

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2 Chronicles 29:1 Spelled Abi in 2 Kings 18:2

2 Chronicles 29:1 En todas las Inglés

1 Chronicles 4:34-43

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³⁴Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah the son of Amaziah, ³⁵Joel, Jehu the son of Joshibiah, son of Seraiah, son of Asiel, ³⁶Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah, ³⁷Ziza the son of Shiphi, son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah— ³⁸these mentioned by name were princes in their clans, ^(A)and their fathers' houses increased greatly. ³⁹They journeyed to the entrance of ^(B)Gedor, to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks, ⁴⁰where they found rich, good pasture, and the land was very broad, ^(C)quiet, and peaceful, for the former inhabitants there belonged to Ham. ⁴¹^(D)These, registered by name, came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and destroyed their tents and the Meunites who were found there, and marked them for destruction to this day, ^(E)and settled in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks. ⁴²And some of them, five hundred men of the Simeonites, went to ^(F)Mount Seir, having as their leaders Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi. ⁴³And they defeated ^(G)the remnant of the Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.