Micah 7:6

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Summary

For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.

Son

A man's

John 13:18

General references

Bible References

Son

Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers who were outside.

You are destructive like water and will not excel, for you got on your father's bed, then you defiled it -- he got on my couch!

Then Absalom sent spies through all the tribes of Israel who said, "When you hear the sound of the horn, you may assume that Absalom rules in Hebron."

Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, "My own son, my very own flesh and blood, is trying to take my life. So also now this Benjaminite! Leave him alone so that he can curse, for the Lord has spoken to him.

There is a generation who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

They have treated father and mother with contempt within you; they have oppressed the foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow within you.

"Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."

You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and they will have some of you put to death.

For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

A man's

Even my close friend whom I trusted, he who shared meals with me, has turned against me.

Indeed, it is not an enemy who insults me, or else I could bear it; it is not one who hates me who arrogantly taunts me, or else I could hide from him.

As a matter of fact, even your own brothers and the members of your own family have betrayed you too. Even they have plotted to do away with you. So do not trust them even when they say kind things to you.

I hear many whispering words of intrigue against me. Those who would cause me terror are everywhere! They are saying, "Come on, let's publicly denounce him!" All my so-called friends are just watching for something that would lead to my downfall. They say, "Perhaps he can be enticed into slipping up, so we can prevail over him and get our revenge on him.

All your allies will force you from your homeland! Your treaty partners will deceive you and overpower you. Your trusted friends will set an ambush for you that will take you by surprise!

He answered, "The one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with me will betray me.

"What I am saying does not refer to all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture, 'The one who eats my bread has turned against me.'

General references

It is better to take shelter in the Lord than to trust in people.

and a man's enemies will be the members of his household.

Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

For from now on there will be five in one household divided, three against two and two against three.

"But look, the hand of the one who betrays me is with me on the table.

(For not even his own brothers believed in him.)