Micah 5:13

Translations

Modern

I will also cut off the carved images and sacred pillars from among you, so that you will no longer bow down to the work of your own hands.

Traditional

Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.

Literal

And I will cut off your carved images and your sacred pillars from among you, and you will not bow down anymore to the work of your hands.

Latin

…et perire faciam sculptilia tua et statuas tuas de medio tui, et non adorabis ultra opera manuum tuarum:

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Hebrew

English

I will also cut off the carved images and sacred pillars from among you, so that you will no longer bow down to the work of your own hands.

Notes

Micah 5:13–14

sacred pillars … Asherah poles: Stones and trees were used for worship. They could symbolize pagan gods. The Asherah poles were green poles or trees representing the goddess Asherah and her fertility powers. The stones and trees might have had sexual meanings—one male, the other female. People viewed Asherah as the mother of gods and the partner of El or Baal.

Micah 5:10–14

The Lord’s actions, both for and against his people, cleanse them. He removed practices and objects that Israel had taken from the pagan cultures of Mesopotamia and Canaan.

Micah 5:7–15

God did not aim to create just another nation (Exodus 19:4–6; Numbers 23:9; Jeremiah 7:23). He wanted his own people to follow his ways and be holy like him (Leviticus 11:45). In that time (Micah 5:10), God will lead a redeemed and purified people, free from violence and the damage of war.

Micah 5:1–15

This section urges Israel to prepare for the fierce attack by Assyria, Israel's enemy (Micah 5:5b–6). This terrifying siege will not destroy Israel, because God will provide a leader (Micah 5:2–5a) to guide the people back from exile. God will preserve and purify the remaining people (Micah 5:7–14), completing their restoration as God's victorious people.

Micah 3:1–5:15

This message accuses the evil leaders who harmed God's people. It contrasts them with a vision of God's kingdom and a righteous king's rule. After facing judgment and exile, a purified Israel would return and receive God's blessings.

Events

Prophecies of Micahc. 754 BC

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Ezekiel 6:9
Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.
Ezekiel 36:25
I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
Hosea 14:8
O Ephraim, what have I to do anymore with idols? It is I who answer and watch over him. I am like a flourishing cypress; your fruit comes from Me.
Isaiah 17:7–8
In that day men will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 2:8
Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.
Hosea 14:3
Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”
Zechariah 13:2
And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will also remove the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.
Hosea 2:16–17
In that day,” declares the LORD, “you will call Me ‘my Husband,’ and no longer call Me ‘my Master.’
Ezekiel 37:23
They will no longer defile themselves with their idols or detestable images, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all their apostasies by which they sinned, and I will cleanse them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.

Micah 5:13

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