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Micah 5:12
12I will destroy your witchcraft and you will no longer cast spells.
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:
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)I will put an end to all witchcraft, and there will be no more fortune-tellers.
Context of Micah 5:12
10“In that day,” declares the Lord, “I will destroy your horses from among you and demolish your chariots. 11I will destroy the cities of your land and tear down all your strongholds. I will destroy your witchcraft and you will no longer cast spells. 13I will destroy your idols and your sacred stones from among you; you will no longer bow down to the work of your hands. 14I will uproot from among you your Asherah poles when I demolish your cities.
Read all of Micah 5Micah 5:12 word by word
וְהִכְרַתִּ֥י כְשָׁפִ֖ים מִיָּדֶ֑ךָ וּֽמְעוֹנְנִ֖ים לֹ֥א יִֽהְיוּ־לָֽךְ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Micah 5:12
- Isaiah 2:6You, Lord, have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob. They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and embrace pagan customs.
- Isaiah 8:19When someone tells you to consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?
- Isaiah 27:9By this, then, will Jacob’s guilt be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: When he makes all the altar stones to be like limestone crushed to pieces, no Asherah poles or incense altars will be left standing.
- Zechariah 13:2“On that day, I will banish the names of the idols from the land, and they will be remembered no more,” declares the Lord Almighty. “I will remove both the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.
- Revelation 19:20But the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed the signs on its behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
- Revelation 22:15Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
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
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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
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