Michah HaNavi
c. 765 BCE–c. 695 BCE · Biblical era · Moreshet-Gat (probable site)
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Michah of Moreshet (Micah) was a Judean prophet of the late 8th century BCE, a contemporary of Isaiah, active under Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah (Micah 1:1). He spoke against both capitals, Samaria and Jerusalem, and he foretold in stark terms that Jerusalem itself would fall: 'Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins' (Micah 3:12). A century later, when Jeremiah was on trial for a similar prophecy, elders cited Micah's words as a precedent (Jeremiah 26:18). His book also holds one of the Bible's best-known visions of peace, of swords beaten into plowshares (Micah 4:3), which also appears almost word for word in Isaiah 2:4, and the summary of what God asks: 'to do justice, to love goodness, and to walk modestly with your God' (Micah 6:8). The Talmud says Micah gathered the 613 commandments into those three principles (Makkot 24a).
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Moreshet-Gat (probable site)Judean Shephelah (near Beit Guvrin)
What they did here
He is called 'Micah the Morashtite' (Micah 1:1; Jeremiah 26:18), generally taken to mean a man of Moresheth-gath, a town he names in Micah 1:14. The site is only tentatively identified, probably in the Judean lowlands near Beit Guvrin.
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