Micah 5:12

Micah 5:12 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:
• New International Version (NIV)I will destroy your witchcraft and you will no longer cast spells.
• English Standard Version (ESV)and I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you shall have no more tellers of fortunes;
• New King James Version (NKJV)I will cut off sorceries from your hand, And you shall have no soothsayers.

Context of Micah 5:12

10And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots. 11And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and overthrow all thy strongholds. And I will cut off sorceries out of thy hand; and thou shalt have no soothsayers. 13Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy statues out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more bow down to the work of thy hands. 14And I will pluck up thine Asherahs out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy cities.

Micah 5:12 word by word

וְהִכְרַתִּ֥י כְשָׁפִ֖ים מִיָּדֶ֑ךָ וּֽמְעוֹנְנִ֖ים לֹ֥א יִֽהְיוּ־לָֽךְ׃Read the interlinear

• cutכָּרַתkârath · to cut: cutH3772
• handיָדyâd · handH3027

Cross-references for Micah 5:12

• Isaiah 2:6For thou hast cast off thy people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled [with what comes] from the east, and use auguries like the Philistines, and ally themselves with the children of foreigners.
• Isaiah 8:19And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto the necromancers and unto the soothsayers, who chirp and who mutter, [say,] Shall not a people seek unto their God? [Will they go] for the living unto the dead?
• Isaiah 27:9By this, therefore, shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit of the taking away of his sin: when he shall make all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are crumbled in pieces, — the Asherahs and the sun-images shall not stand.
• Zechariah 13:2And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, [that] I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered; and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.
• Revelation 19:20And the beast was taken, and the false prophet that [was] with him, who wrought the signs before him by which he deceived them that received the mark of the beast, and those that worship his image. Alive were both cast into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone;
• Revelation 22:15Without [are] the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loves and makes a lie.

Commentaries on Micah 5:12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12I will cut off witchcrafts - Thou shalt seek help only in Jehovah thy God. They have had neither soothsayers, images, groves, nor high places, from the captivity to the present day.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11-15Verses 11-15 I will cut off the cities of thy land - So God promised by Zechariah, “Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls; for I will be unto her a wall of fire round about” Zechariah 2:4-5. The Church shall not need the temptation of human defense; for God shall fence her in on every side. Great cities too, as the abode of luxury and sin, of power and pride, and, mostly, of cruelty, are chiefly denounced as the objects of God‘s anger…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-15Verses 7-15 The remnant of Israel, converted to Christ in the primitive times, were among many nations as the drops of dew, and were made instruments in calling a large increase of spiritual worshippers. But to those who neglected or opposed this salvation, they would, as lions, cause terror, their doctrine condemning them. The Lord also declares that he would cause not only the reformation of the Jews, but the purification of the Christian church. In…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10-14The Lord’s actions, both for and against his people, cleanse them. He removed practices and objects that Israel had taken from the pagan cultures of Mesopotamia and Canaan.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1212. witchcrafts out of thine hand--that is, which thou now usest.Read the comment

Topics related to Micah 5:12

• Church
• Idolatry
• Sorcery

In the dictionaries

• Meonenim
• Soothsayer
• Witchcraft
• Enchantment
• Micah (2)
• Witch; Witchcraft
• Enchantments

Commentaries on Micah 5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings