May 24, 2021 - How can you say, ‘We are wise, ... and priests alike all practice deceit. They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. ‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace.’ · This is exactly Micah’s charge. The nature of the false teaching was, as it always is, to take the sting, the fear, the darkness out of the message and to make it all sunshine and light. Heresy always proceeds ...

January 5, 2015 - But their spirituality was based on sin and heresy – not on truth and the Bible. There was only one way to know whether or not the religion of Herod’s priests was genuine – compare what they believed and practiced to the law and the testimony. It wasn’t enough that they knew what Micah ...

…parts: (1) the story of Micah, the repentant Ephraimite, a Levite priest who deserted him to be priest of the tribe of Dan, and the establishment of a shrine at the conquered city of Laish (renamed Dan) with the cult object taken from the ...

October 29, 2024 - Micah was an Ephraimite who was the founder of the idolatry and false priesthood of the Tribe of Dan. Micah lived during a period of time where there was no King, nor Judge over Israel to keep the people in line with God's commands.

Micah wanted a proper Levitical priest to justify his rebellion. The priest wanted to live out his role according to his own desires. Both Micah and the Levite were shifting their lives, even their convictions, to do what was most comfortable for themselves.

March 11, 2019 - Formerly the right of the priesthood belonged to such (Lapide, Serarius, Tostatus). But this account does not convince; for that right of the firstborn was annulled by the Aaronic priesthood, and Micah was able to employ any one of his sons ...

Micah ordained the Levite, and the young man became his priest and lived in his house.

June 14, 2025 - The five scouts then went into Micah's house, and stole the idol, ephod, teraphim, and carved image, and took them out of the house, while the 600 warriors were standing at the gate. The priest asked them what they were doing, but was persuaded to go with them as then he could be the priest of a whole tribe rather than just a house.

ESV And Micah ordained the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

Micah knows enough of God’s law to know that Levites are God’s chosen priests, but he doesn’t care that he has broken God’s first commandment to not make idols.

March 4, 2014 - The closing verses of this account leave us with these words: “The Danites set up for themselves the idol, and Jonathan son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests for the tribe of Dan until the time of the captivity of the land.

Finally, Micah's family ignored ... (Numbers 3:10). He is ordaining one of his own sons, to serve as a false priest, in his own false shrine, with his own false self-selection of gods and sacred objects....

December 18, 2023 - In Jud 17:1-13, we see the idols and priest of Micah. Micah making these idols and consecrating this priest shows what's wrong with Catholicism doing this.

February 28, 2025 - Yet we could say that the Levite was guiltier than Micah was. We can say this because the Levite was at least supposed to know the word of God. b. Now I know that the LORD will be good to me, since I have a Levite as priest: Micah’s confidence was just as false as his consecration was.

October 8, 2025 - He is considered one of the Twelve Minor Prophets of the Hebrew Bible and is depicted as a contemporary of the prophets Isaiah, Amos and Hosea. Micah is described as having been from Moresheth-Gath, in southwest Judah and prophesying during the reigns of kings Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah of the southern Kingdom of Judah in the 8th century BC.

Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and ordained one of his sons as his priest.

February 22, 2019 - The first part consists of chapters Micheas begins by announcing the impending destruction of Samaria as a punishment for its sins, and Jerusalem also is threatened. In chapter ii the prophet develops his threats against the Kingdom of Juda and gives his reasons for them. In chapter iii he utters his reproaches with greater distinctness against the chief culprits: the prophets, the priests, the princes, and the judges.

August 14, 2024 - Micah rebuked the people for their vices, and rebuked the false prophets who prophesied of wine and of strong drink (Micah 2:11). He foretold the destruction of Samaria. He also foretold the destruction of Jerusalem, which would come because its leaders accepted bribes, its priests taught for hire, and its prophets told fortunes for money.

Unlike Isaiah, who was a native of the holy city, Micah was an outsider from the countryside and must have been a controversial figure. He would have been unpopular with the leaders whom he condemned (3:1–4) and the wealthy whom he criticized (2:1–5). He was quick to separate himself from priests and other prophets, whom he considered to be corrupt (3:5–8).

February 28, 2024 - The proud (see 2:3b) and powerful ... way, they sin against God. The LORD gave the stolen fields as a perpetual inheritance to the families of his kingdom of priests to sustain them in their worship....