Prophets Exam Unit 3 Micah

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Micah's audience

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Southern Kingdom

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Date of Micah

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Bullock 740-687 BC

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Kings during Micah

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1) Azariah (2Kg 14.21= Uzziah 2Chr 26.1) - 767-740 - good - 2 Kg 15.3
2) Jotham - 740-732 - good - 2Kg 15.32-37
3) Ahaz - 732-715 - BAD - 2Kg 16.1-11
4) Hezekiah - 715-687 - good - 2Kg 18.1-8
5) Manasseh - 687-642 - BAD - 2Kg 21.1-9

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Major Conflicts - Syro-Ephraimite War

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1) Recorded in 2 Kg 16.5-6
2) ca. 732 BC
3) Pekah of Israel and Rezin of
Damascus tried to force Judah to join an anti-Assyrian alliance. Background
of Isa 7ff
4) impact - heavy drain on exchequer, century of vassalage, became a weakened target for Philistines and Edomites

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Major Conflicts - Fall of Samaria

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(722) to Sargon II

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Major Conflicts - Egyptian agitation

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Egyptian agitation to revolt against Assyria (before death of Sargon, 705): cf. Isa 20.

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Major Conflicts - Sennacherib’s invasion

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(701)
Isa 36-37 = 2Kg 18.13-19.37

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Internal conditions - Jotham

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740-732
2 Kg 15.34-35
Did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, the high places not removed & the people were worshiping there, upper gate of the house of the Lord was built.

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Internal conditions - Ahaz

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732-715
2Kg 16.2-4; cf. Isa 2.6ff 8.16ff
Did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walked as the kings of Israel, burned son as offering, sacrificed & offered on high places and on the hills and under every green tree

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Internal conditions - Hezekiah

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715-687
2Kg 18.3-6
Did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, the high places were removed, broke the pillars, cut down Asherah, broke bronze serpent of Moses. Trusted in the Lord - none like him among the Kings of Judah after him - or before!

Collins notes that the popular religion was not as pure as Hezekiah's.

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Internal conditions - Manasseh

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687-642
2Kg 21.2ff
Did what was evil in the sight of the Lord according to the despicable practice of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel, rebuilt high places, erected altars for Baal, made Asherah as Ahab, worshiped host of heaven and served them... burned his son as an offering... fortune telling, omens, mediums, necromancers...

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Major difficulty with Micah

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Micah spans a long time (Jotham-Hezekiah), and conditions changed over time. Therefore: where do we locate a particular oracle (sometimes it says, sometimes you can only guess)? Does it always matter (i.e. how does it function in the present shape of the book?)?

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Micah Outline

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I. (chs. 1-2) Judgment and deliverance
II. (chs 3-5) False leaders denounced
III. (chs. 6-7) Hope in darkness

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Micah Structure

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Edited Sermons

Waltke, 144, on overall view: “Micah’s prophecy contains once-independent
announcements of judgment, oracles of salvation, controversy sayings, lawsuit speeches, instructions, laments, prayer, hymn, and a proclamation of the Lord’s epiphany. One could think of it almost as a preacher’s file of sermons delivered on different occasions in the life of the capital. But unlike a drawer of sermon files, the careful student will discern that the messages have been skillfully fitted together like pieces of a mosaic by means of catchwords and logical particles.”

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Micah Thematic Passage (1 of 2)
Micah 6:6-8

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Micah 6:6–8.
(6) With what shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? (7) Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?” (8) He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness,and to walk humbly with your God

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Micah Thematic Passage (2 of 2)
Micah 7:18-20

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Micah 7:18-20
(18) Who is a God like thee, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever because he delights in steadfast love. (19) He will again have compassion upon us, he will tread our iniquities under foot. Thou wilt cast all our sins into the depths of the sea. (20) Thou wilt show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as thou hast sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

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Micah Theological emphasis

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Do not simply engage the covenant externally. Embrace the covenant from the heart, doing justice, loving kindness, and walking humbly with your God. (Micah 6.8)

There is blessing in the world to come, but something needs to happen between now and then... namely the purification of the people of God.

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General Review Unit 1-3
Who were the prophets to the North?

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Jonah, Amos (from the South), Hosea

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General Review Unit 1-3
Who were the prophets to the South?

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Micah