Look at what it says in Micah’s (or rather, God’s) indictment. Micah 1:10–15 lists out names of towns that are hard to pronounce. Why are they included? First of all, because Micah is tracing out the path of the Assyrian army, which would ultimately end up overtaking Israel. These are all the places that its king, Sennacherib, would come to in order to take control over these regions. This is the path of the means of God’s judgment. Second, Micah is also trying to show that even though these cities
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