Reading for October 10th

Read Micah 3.1-12 Judgment on the ruling elite.
Chapter 3 is composed of three typical judgment speeches, each with an indictment of crimes
and a sentence of punishment for them, directed at political and religious leaders.
The theme introduced in Micah's opening speech, that the corruption of Israel and Judah
stems from the highest levels of power in its capital cities, continues here.
In verses 1-4 the first judgment speech, directed to political officials, includes an indictment
(vv. 1-3), accusing them of devouring their people by their injustices, and a sentence (v. 4),
according to which they are abandoned by God.
In verses 5-8 the second judgment speech, directed to false prophets, indicts them for accepting bribes to give favorable prophecies (v. 5).
The sentence by which they are blocked from receiving further revelations (vv. 6-7)
is contrasted with Micah's own power to preach (v. 8).
In verses 9-12 the third judgment speech indicts Jerusalem's political and religious leaders alike:
its political rulers, its priests, and its prophets (vv. 9-11).
the sentence Micah announces, the fall of Jerusalem (v. 12), sets him off from his contemporary Isaiah, who thought Jerusalem would be threatened but not conquered (Isa 29.1-8).
Jerusalem in fact survived the Assyrian invasion and did not fall during Micah's career.
Nearly a hundred years later, when the prophet Jeremiah also predicted, the fall of Jerusalem
and was about to be sentenced to death for his prediction, Micah's prophecy was recalled in Jeremiah's defense (Jer 26.16-19.
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