Micah 5:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.

Micah 5:14 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 34:13
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:

Topics

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-15)

Glorious things are here spoken of the remnant of Jacob, that remnant which was raised of her that halted (Mic. 4:7), and it seems to be that remnant which the Lord our God shall call (Joel 2:32), on whom the Spirit shall be poured out, the remnant that shall be saved, Rom. 9:27. Note, God’s people are but a remnant, a small number in comparison with the many that are left to perish, a little floc…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 14)

14. groves ... cities--The “groves” are the idolatrous symbol of Astarte (De 16:21; 2Ki 21:7). “Cities” being parallel to “groves,” must mean cities in or near which such idolatrous groves existed. Compare “city of the house of Baal” (2Ki 10:25), that is, a portion of the city sacred to Baal.