Micah 1:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?

The transgression of jacob

Is it

Amos 8:14

They

2 Kings 16:3

2 Chronicles 28:2

Bible References

The transgression of jacob

And it happened because the sons of Israel had sinned against Jehovah their God, 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,

Also all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of Jehovah which He had made holy in Jerusalem.

So says Jehovah, Where is your mother's bill of divorce, whom I have put away? Or to which of My creditors have I sold you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother is put away for your sins.

Behold, Jehovah's hand is not shortened so that it cannot save, nor is His ear heavy so that it cannot hear.

Have you not brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Jehovah your God, when He led you by the way?

Your way and your doings have brought these things on you; this is your evil, because it is bitter, because it reaches to your heart.

Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.

Hear, O earth; behold, I will bring evil on this people, the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to My Words, nor to My Law, but have rejected it.

The crown has fallen from our head. Woe now to us! For we have sinned.

who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, also driving us out and they do not please God and being contrary to all men,

Is it

for the saying which he cried by the Word of Jehovah against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.

When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria. For they have worked falsehood. And the thief comes in, the troop of robbers plunders outside.

Your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off. My anger is kindled against them. Until when will they not attain purity?

Woe to those at ease in Zion, and those trusting in the mountain of Samaria, who are noted as leader of the nations. And the house of Israel came to them.

They who swear by the sin of Samaria and say, As your god lives, O Dan; and, As the way of Beer-sheba lives; even they shall fall and never rise up again.

They

But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. Yes, and he made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Jehovah cast out from before the sons of Israel.

For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and also made molded images for Baals.