Mic.6.16

Micah 6:16

KJV GOD

¶ For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

The Punishment of Israel

Cross References

1 Kings 16:25

KJV

¶ But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the Lord, and did worse than all that were before him.

Omri Reigns in Israel

1 Kings 16:26

KJV

For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger with their vanities.

Omri Reigns in Israel

1 Kings 16:29

KJV

¶ And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.

Ahab Reigns in Israel, Marries Jezebel

Psalm 44:13

KJV

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

Redeem Us, O God

For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.

Jeremiah 7:24

KJV GOD

But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

Judah’s Idolatry Persists

Jeremiah 18:16

KJV GOD

To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.

The Potter and the Clay

Jeremiah 19:8

KJV GOD

And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

The Broken Jar

Jeremiah 25:9

KJV GOD

Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

Seventy Years of Captivity

Prophecy of the Captivity

Jeremiah 25:18

KJV

To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;

The Cup of God’s Wrath

Jeremiah 29:18

KJV GOD

And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:

Jeremiah’s Letter to the Exiles

Jeremiah 51:51

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We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the Lord’S house.

Babylon’s Punishment

Hosea 5:11

KJV GOD

Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.

Judgment on Israel and Judah

Hosea 12:14

KJV

Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.

A Reproof of Ephraim, Judah, and Jacob

Micah 2:6

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Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.

Reproof of False Prophets

Micah 6:13

KJV GOD

Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.