Micah 1:5 - The Scriptures 1998

⁵ All this is for the transgression of Yaʽ

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ 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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ All this is because of the transgression of Jacob and the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not [the idol worship of] Samaria? And what are the high places [of idolatry] in Judah? Are they not Jerusalem?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ 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?

Common English Bible

⁵ All this is for the crime of Jacob and the sins of the house of Israel. Who is responsible for the crime of Jacob? Isn’t it Samaria? Who is responsible for the shrines of Judah? Isn’t it Jerusalem?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ All this is for the wickedness of Jacob and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the wickedness of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the loftiness of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?

Micah 1:5 Cross References

1 Kings 11:7

Then Shelomoh built a high place for Kemosh the abomination of Mo’aḇ

1 Kings 13:32

“For the word which he cried out, by the word of יהוה, against the altar in Bĕ

1 Kings 16:24

And he bought the hill of Shomeron from Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, Shomeron, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill.

2 Chronicles 34:3

And in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the Elohim of his father Dawiḏ

2 Chronicles 34:4

And they broke down the altars of the Baʽ

Isaiah 7:9

“And the head of Ephrayim is Shomeron, and the head of Shomeron is the son of Remalyahu. If you do not believe, you are not steadfast.” ’ ”

Jeremiah 2:17

“Have you not done this to yourself, by forsaking יהוה  your Elohim when He led you in the way?

Jeremiah 2:19

“Your own evil instructs you, and your backslidings reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is evil and bitter that you have forsaken יהוה  your Elohim, and that My fear is not in you,” declares the Master יהוה  of hosts.

Jeremiah 23:13

“And I have seen folly in the prophets of Shomeron: they prophesied by Baʽ

Jeremiah 23:14

“And among the prophets of Yerushalayim I have seen a horrible matter: committing adultery and walking in falsehood. And they strengthen the hands of evil ones, so that no one turns back from his evil. All of them are like Seḏ

Jeremiah 4:18

“Your ways and your deeds have brought this upon you. This is your evil, because it is bitter, because it has reached into your heart.”

Jeremiah 5:25

‘Your crookednesses have turned these away, and your sins have kept the good from you.

Jeremiah 6:19

“Hear, O earth! See, I am bringing evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to My words, nor My Torah – and they rejected it.

Lamentations 5:16

The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

Ezekiel 16:46

“And your elder sister is Shomeron, she and her daughters, who is dwelling to the north of you. And your younger sister, who is dwelling to the south of you, is Seḏ

Hosea 7:1

“Whenever I would heal Yisra’ĕ

Amos 6:1

Woe to those at ease in Tsiyon, and those trusting in Mount Shomeron, the distinguished ones among the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Yisra’ĕ

Amos 7:9

“And the high places of Yitsḥ

Amos 8:14

those swearing by the guilt of Shomeron, who say, ‘As your mighty one lives, O Dan!’ and, ‘As the way of Be’ĕ

Micah 1:13

O inhabitant of Laḵ