"Hear, you peoples, all of you; listen, O earth, and all that is in it; and let God be a witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple." (v. 2)So you sit there, in the courtroom, the accused. The trial has been a toss up so far and the jury isn't convinced either way as the prosecution makes its case. They call their next witness. "Your Honor, for our next witness, the prosecution would like to present, God." Yeah, ok, its over. You might as well change your plea to guilty.
I guess jumping into the middle of history, its hard to know what Micah is yelling about. I do know that Assyrian Empire is taking over (722ish BC) and wiping out many of these cities in Israel and Judah, but what are people doing in these cities that has Micah proclaiming that they are being punished by God? Samaria is one of the first places to be called out, so I checked it out a little more. My Bible on references it in the index once before Micah and thats in 1 Kings 16:24-34. Samaria was a hill that kill Omri bought for two talents of silver and then built a city on it (870ish BC?). Verses 25-26 say this about Omri:
"Omri did what was evil in the sight of the Lord; he did more evil than all who were before him. For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and in the sins that he caused Israel to commit, provoking the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger by their idols."Well, 150 years have passed since Omri, but I guess these places are still with their false gods. Whether it be golden images or money and power. Micah is shouting from the crumbling mountain tops to cut it out!
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