Micah 1:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

graven images. Hebrew. pesilim. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 20:4). App-92.

hires. The technical Pentateuchal word for. harlot's hire, to which idolatry is compared. Compare Hosea 8:9; Hosea 8:10; Hosea 9:1. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 23:18). App-92.

they shall return, &c.: i.e. the wealth gained by idolatry shall be taken away by the Assyrian idolaters.

Micah 1:7

7 And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.