Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moresheth-gath: the houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.
Micah 1:14 belongs to a message of wrath and warning directed against the great social evils of Israel and Judah in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. Its prophet was a younger contemporary of Isaiah, sent as prophet to Israel and also to Judah. Moresheth-gath is the prophet's own home country, for he was a native of Moresheth on the maritime plain about twenty miles southwest of Jerusalem.
It stands in the first Hear division of the prophecy, chapters 1 and 2, which moves from rebuke and threatening for the guilt of sin to a closing promise of blessing. It means Jehovah comes forth out of His place amid awful convulsions of nature because of the sins of the house of Israel and the transgressions of Jacob. Village after village is therefore destroyed as desolation falls from Samaria down to the very gates of Jerusalem, with Zion to be plowed as a field and Jerusalem to become heaps.
Micah 1:14 belongs to a message of wrath and warning directed against the great social evils of Israel and Judah in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. Its prophet was a younger contemporary of Isaiah, sent as prophet to Israel and also to Judah. Moresheth-gath is the prophet's own home country, for he was a native of Moresheth on the maritime plain about twenty miles southwest of Jerusalem.
It stands in the first Hear division of the prophecy, chapters 1 and 2, which moves from rebuke and threatening for the guilt of sin to a closing promise of blessing. It means Jehovah comes forth out of His place amid awful convulsions of nature because of the sins of the house of Israel and the transgressions of Jacob. Village after village is therefore destroyed as desolation falls from Samaria down to the very gates of Jerusalem, with Zion to be plowed as a field and Jerusalem to become heaps.