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The prophet Micah lived in dark times. He was one of a small remnant of faithful believers living in a godless society where corruption and violence were rife, the vulnerable were the victims of exploitation and the religious leaders failed to speak out against the people’s sin, but instead gave them the message they wanted to hear. Micah often seemed to be a lone voice as he faithfully...

There is mystery about Yahweh’s word, then; it ‘comes’ or is simply ‘there’, and we may wonder how it comes. The only hint we have here about the ‘how’ is that Micah says that Yahweh’s word is what he ‘saw’. This verb (ḥāzâ), as used here, refers to seeing in a prophetic vision (cf. Num. 24:4, 16), one of the ways Yahweh conveyed his word to the prophets (cf. Num. 12:6–8); it seems to indicate that there is a visual component in the receiving of Yahweh’s word which then results in the verbal communication
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