Micah

[Heb. Mikhah, for Mikhayahu =Who is like Jehovah? Sept. Gr. Michaias.] 1. Script . Biol .: Various persons with their names spelled Micah, Michah (1) Chron. xxiv. 24, 25), or Micha (2 Sam. ix. 12) are mentioned in the Old Tes tament. Specially: (1) A priest (Judges xvii., xviii.) believed to have been a descendant of Moses, written Mana eh (xviii. 30). (2) The prophet called Micah the Morasthite, perhaps to dist in guish him from Micaiah, the son of Imlah, who lived in the reign of Ahab. Morasthite means of Moresheth, probably Moresheth-gath (Micah i. 14). Scarcely anything is known of him, except what may be gathered from his prophecies. 2. Old Test. Canon: The sixth in order of the books. The title states that "the word of the Lord "minor prophets," i. e., of the minor prophetic Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah." came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of The visions seen, however, were concerning Samaria and Jerusalem, the capital of the ten tribes, it will be observed, standing before that of the two (i. 1). Jeremiah attributes at least the prophecy in Micah iii. 12 to the reign of Hezekiah (Jer. xxvi. 18, 19). The corruptions of the ten tribes and of the two are denounced; and the prophet foretells the destruction of both Samaria and Jerusalem (i. 5, 6; iii. 8-12); the captivity in Babylon (iv. 10); the worldwide spiritual influence to be ultimately exercised