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The overrun of the country by the Assyrians in 721 BCE had erased the ten tribes of northern Israel from history — a national calamity still very much on the minds of Jeremiah and his compatriots when, in 605 BCE, Babylonia, another empire from the north, arose and vanquished its rival to the south, Egypt, in the epic battle of Carchemish.
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Jeremiah turns to God in prayer, asking God to make good on...
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Nov 12, 2024 · God regretted the creation of humans because of evil on the earth. Several cultures had similar stories: the Egyptian sun god Ra attempted to eradicate humans; the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh has the gods sending a flood because of the clamor and noise of humans; Greek mythology had the story of the flood survivor, Deucalion. The story of ...
- Quoted in Gerhard von Rad, Old Testament Theology, vol. 2 (New York: Harper & Row, 1965), 33n1.
- See Anthony J. Petrotta, Lexis Ludens: Wordplay and the Book of Micah (New York: Peter Lang, 1991), 5–8 for a comprehensive discussion of the definitions of “wordplay,” “pun,” and “paronomasia,” with the latter primarily concerned with phonology.
- Philip J. King, Amos, Hosea, Micah–An Archaeological Commentary (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1988), 27–28.
- Hans Walter Wolff, Micah the Prophet, trans. R. Gehrke (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1981), 4; but Francis I. Anderson and David Noel Freedman, Micah: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, The Anchor Bible 24E (New York: Doubleday, 2000), 109–10 see no support from the biblical language or overall message of Micah to support Wolff’s suggestion.
Calamity in Israel and Judah. 1 The word of [a]Yahweh which came toMicah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, andHezekiah, kings of Judah, which he beheld concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. The Lord from His holy temple. 3 For behold, Yahweh is going forth from His place. He will come down and tread on the high places of the [c]earth.
v. t. e. The history of ancient Israel and Judah spans from the early appearance of the Israelites in Canaan 's hill country during the late second millennium BCE, to the establishment and subsequent downfall of the two Israelite kingdoms in the mid-first millennium BCE. This history unfolds within the Southern Levant during the Iron Age.
Feb 25, 2015 · The Bible contains the stories of the people of God when they lost all of that. People torn away from their land, torn up as a people, and torn down by humiliating loss. This is the meaning of the exile in the last sections of the Old Testament in which Israel in the north is destroyed by the Assyrian empire, and Judah in the south is taken ...
44 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews dwelling in the land of Egypt—at Migdol, at Tahpanhes, at Noph, and in the region of Pathros[a], saying, 2 thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Israel: “You have seen all the calamity that I brought on Jerusalem and on all the cities of Judah. Behold, today they are a ruin, and no ...
