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- After three years of subjection to Babylon, Jehoiakim rebelled, and the rest of his reign was marked by continual decline as he fought the Chaldeans (Babylonians) and many others (2 Kings 24:1–7). As the Lord had promised, He was bringing disaster upon Jerusalem and Judah to punish the people’s evil (21:10–15).
www.ligonier.org/learn/devotionals/beginning-of-end-for-judahThe Beginning of the End for Judah | Reformed Bible Studies ...
Jeremiah 19:3 and say, Hear the word of Yahweh, kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears shall tingle.
11 1-3 Then the Lord spoke to Jeremiah once again and said: Remind the men of Judah and all the people of Jerusalem that I made a contract with their fathers—and cursed is the man who does not heed it! 4 For I told them at the time I brought them out of slavery in Egypt that if they would obey me and do whatever I commanded them, then they and all their children would be mine and I would be ...
Calamity in Israel and Judah - The word of Yahweh which came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he beheld concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. Hear, O ...
Israel and Judah have both broken the covenant I made with their ancestors. 11 Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I am going to bring calamity upon them, and they will not escape. Though they beg for mercy, I will not listen to their cries. 12 Then the people of Judah and Jerusalem will pray to their idols and burn incense before them.
Israel and Judah have both broken the covenant I made with their ancestors. 11 Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I am going to bring calamity upon them, and they will not escape. Though they beg for mercy, I will not listen to their cries.
To Jeremiah and the classical prophets, no one could be shielded from the harsh reality of God’s judgment, but neither would anyone be denied the consolation of God’s ultimate love — nor the hope that comes from that knowledge.
Thus, Micah’s lament is not providing a promise of hope but a declaration of judgment as God would bring a conqueror (yôrēš) to Mareshah (mārēšâ). In the second half of this verse, the “glory of Israel” is prophesied to come to Adullam, and Micah again evokes the Davidic past.
