Micah
Also known as: Micah of Moresheth, Mikayahu
Prophet · From Moresheth
Key Events
- 1Prophesied the fall of Samaria — fulfilled 722 BCE
- 2Predicted the destruction of Jerusalem
- 3Named Bethlehem as birthplace of the Messiah (Micah 5:2)
- 4"Do justly, love mercy, walk humbly" — heart of true religion
- 5His prophecy was cited to save Jeremiah's life a century later
What Scripture Says (28 verses)
Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.
Judges · Chapter 17
And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
Judges · Chapter 17
And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehemjudah to sojourn where he could find a place: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.
Judges · Chapter 17
And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a Levite of Bethlehemjudah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place.
Judges · Chapter 17
And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.
Judges · Chapter 17
And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
Judges · Chapter 17
Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
Judges · Chapter 17
And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.
Judges · Chapter 18
When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in this place? and what hast thou here?
Judges · Chapter 18
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Church Tradition
Death
Not recorded in scripture