Micah 3:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Zion. See App-68.

be plowed as. field. This is true of the site on Ophel, but not true of the traditional site south-west of Jerusalem. See App-68. Compare Micah 1:6; Jeremiah 26:18.

Jerusalem. The city proper, on Mount Moriah.

heaps. ruins. Note the Figure of speech Paronomasia (App-6). Hebrew. yirushalaim 'iyyin. Compare Micah 1:6.

the mountain of the house. Moriah and the Temple. See App-68.

the high places of the forest.. a height of. jungle.

Micah 3:12

12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.