Micah 1:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.

Bind

Genesis 19:17

Isaiah 10:31

Jeremiah 4:29

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For

General references

Job 39:10

Bible References

Bind

Run for your lives! The angels warned. Do not stop and do not look behind you! Escape to the mountains, or you will die.

Madmenah has fled; the people of Gebim take cover.

All the people in the city will flee at the sound of riders and archers. They will go off into the thickets and climb among the rocks. The entire city will be abandoned. No one will live in it.

She

Moses asked Aaron: What did these people do to harm you? Why did you make them sin in this terrible way?

King Jeroboam of Israel still did not turn from his evil ways. He continued to choose priests from ordinary families to serve at the altars he had built. He ordained as priest anyone who wanted to be one.

Jehovah will abandon Israel because Jeroboam sinned and led the people of Israel into sin.

It was as if he copied the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat. He took as his wife Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of Zidon, and became a servant and worshipper of Baal.

I have a few things against you: you have people there who hold to the teachings of Balaam, who taught Balak to present a snare to the sons of Israel, to eat of idol sacrifices and commit fornication.

After these things I saw another angel come down from heaven. He had great authority. The earth was illuminated with his glory.

For

His wife was Ahab's daughter. Like the family of Ahab he followed the evil ways of the kings of Israel. He sinned against Jehovah.

He walked in ways of the kings of Israel. He even offered his son to walk through the fire. He copied the disgusting ways of the nations. Jehovah sent the people of the nations out of the land before the children of Israel.

Judah saw that I sent unfaithful Israel away because of her adultery and that I gave Israel her divorce papers. But treacherous Judah, her sister, was not afraid. She also acted like a prostitute.

Now her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lust than she. Her prostitution was more than the fornication of her sister.

General references

Can you bind the wild bull in the furrow with ropes? Or will he plow the valleys behind you?