Micah 2:10 Cross References

Micah 2:10

10: Up! Begone! This is no longer your land and home, for you have filled it with sin and ruined it completely.

They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters. By sacrificing them to the idols of Canaan, they polluted the land with murder.

The few who survived were taken away to Babylon, and they became servants to the king and his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to power.
So the message of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah was fulfilled. The land finally enjoyed its Sabbath rest, lying desolate for seventy years, just as the prophet had said.

I will cause my people to walk on you once again, and you will be their inheritance. You will never again devour their children.
"This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Now the other nations taunt you, saying, `Israel is a land that devours her own people!'
But you will never again devour your people or bereave your nation, says the Sovereign LORD.

Finally, in the ninth year of King Hoshea's reign, Samaria fell, and the people of Israel were exiled to Assyria. They were settled in colonies in Halah, along the banks of the Habor River in Gozan, and among the cities of the Medes.

During his reign, King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria attacked Israel again, and he captured the towns of Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, and Hazor. He also conquered the regions of Gilead, Galilee, and Naphtali, and he took the people to Assyria as captives.

says the LORD. "For suddenly, I will fling you from this land and pour great troubles upon you. At last you will feel my anger."

But as surely as the LORD your God has given you the good things he promised, he will also bring disaster on you if you disobey him. He will completely wipe you out from this good land he has given you.
If you break the covenant of the LORD your God by worshiping and serving other gods, his anger will burn against you, and you will quickly be wiped out from the good land he has given you."

Hear the people of Jerusalem crying in despair, `We are ruined! Disaster has come upon us! We must leave our land, because our homes have been torn down.'"

then I will uproot the people of Israel from this land I have given them. I will reject this Temple that I have set apart to honor my name. I will make Israel an object of mockery and ridicule among the nations.

"You must carefully obey all my laws and regulations; otherwise the land to which I am bringing you will vomit you out.
Do not live by the customs of the people whom I will expel before you. It is because they do these terrible things that I detest them so much.
But I have promised that you will inherit their land, a land flowing with milk and honey. I, the LORD, am your God, who has set you apart from all other people.
"You must therefore make a distinction between ceremonially clean and unclean animals, and between clean and unclean birds. You must not defile yourselves by eating any animal or bird or creeping creature that I have forbidden.
You must be holy because I, the LORD, am holy. I have set you apart from all other people to be my very own.

then I will uproot the people of Israel from this land of mine that I have given them. I will reject this Temple that I have set apart to honor my name. I will make it a spectacle of contempt among the nations.

then I warn you now that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live a long, good life in the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy.

God's promise of entering his place of rest still stands, so we ought to tremble with fear that some of you might fail to get there.
For this Good News--that God has prepared a place of rest--has been announced to us just as it was to them. But it did them no good because they didn't believe what God told them.
For only we who believe can enter his place of rest. As for those who didn't believe, God said, "In my anger I made a vow: 'They will never enter my place of rest,'" even though his place of rest has been ready since he made the world.
We know it is ready because the Scriptures mention the seventh day, saying, "On the seventh day God rested from all his work."
But in the other passage God said, "They will never enter my place of rest."

"Today I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you. If you disobey me, you will quickly disappear from the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy. You will live there only a short time; then you will be utterly destroyed.

"Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the people I am expelling from the Promised Land have defiled themselves.
As a result, the entire land has become defiled. That is why I am punishing the people who live there, and the land will soon vomit them out.
You must strictly obey all of my laws and regulations, and you must not do any of these detestable things. This applies both to you who are Israelites by birth and to the foreigners living among you.
"All these detestable activities are practiced by the people of the land where I am taking you, and the land has become defiled.
Do not give the land a reason to vomit you out for defiling it, as it will vomit out the people who live there now.

"Look all around you. Is there anywhere in the entire land where you have not been defiled by your adulteries? You sit like a prostitute beside the road waiting for a client. You sit alone like a nomad in the desert. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

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