Map Jerusalem falls
Map Micah 3, Jerusalem Falls.
9 Listen to me you rulers of Jacob’s people,
You leaders of Israel
You crooks who poison justice,
And cheat fairness.
10 You have built Jerusalem
In the blood of my people.
You have built my sacred Zion[2]
On the solid rock of evil.
11 Your judges settle cases for a bribe.
Priests will teach you if you pay.
Prophets will advise you for a fee.
Yet they all have the nerve
To invoke God’s support.
They say,
“Absolutely, the LORD is with us
Nobody’s going to hurt us.”
12 Tell it to Jerusalem
When it’s a plowed field.
This city is coming down,
Collapsing into a pile of rocky ruins.
The stately Temple Mount, abandoned,
Will grow into a wooded hilltop.
Micah 3:9-12
Map Jerusalem Falls
Map of Micah 1 towns in trouble
Map of Micah 1 towns in trouble
Map Micah 1
In Dust House Town, They’ll roll in the dust. City of Beauty, They’ll take you away naked and walking in shame. City of Soldiers Will go into hiding. City of Good Neighbors Won’t come to help you. Bittertown hopes for the best But gets the worst: Disaster and pain, With no one to save them. The LORD brings it all the way home, Through the city gates of Jerusalem. Horsetown, hitch your chariots. Rush to the battle. It’s all your fault. You led Jerusalem into sin...Map of Micah’s world
Map of Micah's world
Map of Micah's world of Israel and Judah and surrounding countries in the 700s BC.
Map of Sea Peoples
Map of Sea Peoples
Map of Sea Peoples invading Mediterranean coastland. A volcano erupted in the Aegean Sea around 1500 BC, when many say Moses was growing up in Egypt. It wiped out communities on islands and along the coasts. Sea Peoples, as they are known, started looking for new land, Philistines among them, who became fierce enemies of Israelite ancestors of today’s Jewish people.
Map of Sea Peoples invasion
Map of Assyria’s attack on Judah
Map of Samaria, city and territory
Map of Samaria, city and territory
Samaria, capital of Israel
And territory in northern Promised Land
Map of Samaria: Samaria was one of the capital cities of the northern Jewish nation that took the name of Israel when it parted company with the tribe of Judah in the south. Samaria also became the name of the territory in and around the city. In time, it became a nickname for the northern tribes. King Omri built the city of Samaria and made it his capital. He was the father of the infamous King Ahab who married the Baal-worshiping Jezebel. Omri bought a hill from a man named Shemer and paid about 150 pounds of silver for it. Omri built a new capital city on that hill. He named the town Samaria, after the former owner.Attacking Samaria
Syrian King Ben-hadad mobilized all the armies in his region. He combined the infantry, cavalry, and chariot corps of 32 kings of kingdom territories and towns. Then he took them to Israel’s capital city of Samaria and attacked. Israel’s elite corps of guards stepped forward, creating a first line of attack. Ben-hadad’s scouts saw them coming and reported back, “Men from Samaria are advancing onto our position.”Standoff then counterattack
For seven days the two armies eyed each other from their camps. Then, on day seven, they fought. Israel killed 100,000 Syrian infantrymen on that first day. The rest fled into the walled city of Aphek for protection. But the walls collapsed, killing another 27,000 of them. Ben-Hadad hid in the back room of a house. His officials said, “Listen, we’ve heard Israel’s kings show mercy. Let’s go to their king dressed in humble cloths, in sackcloth with rope belts.” He may let us live. So, wearing sackcloth with rope belts, the leaders presented themselves to the king of Israel.Invader surrenders
They said, “Ben-Hadad sends this message: “I am Ben-Hadad, your servant. Please let me live.” Ahab said, “Ah, he’s still alive? And he’s my brother now?” The captives took that as a hopeful sign. So, they said, “Yes. Yes he is. He’s your brother, Ben-Hadad.” Ahab said, “Then bring him here.” When Ben-Hadad stepped up, Ahab told him to step into his chariot with him. Ben-Hadad said, “I’m giving you back the cities my father took from your father. And I’m offering you a marketplace in Damascus, just as my father once had a market in Samaria.” Ahab said, “Agreed. Because of this peace treaty, I’ll set you free.”For more Bible features
Map of Samaria territory
Map of Amos’ trip to Samaria
Map of Amos' trip to Samaria
Map of Amos' trip to Samaria in the northern Jewish nation of Israel. He warns them to stop cheating the poor and most vulnerable people, and to stop worshiping at forbidden shrines and temples.
Map of Amos’ world
Video: The Greatest Show of Faith on Earth…the Faith of Habakkuk
Video: The Greatest Show of Faith on Earth...the Faith of Habakkuk
Video: The Greatest Show of Faith on Earth—the faith of Habakkuk.
A contender for the greatest show of faith on earth is a prophet most Christians have probably never heard about, Habakkuk
Aside from Jesus, who expressed his faith by dying on a cross, the faith of Habakkuk, this little-known prophet, showed what he was made of when he found out his Jewish nation was about to get wiped off the map.
Most Christians never read what he said, even though his words lit the spark that produced the Protestant movement.
When he got the news that Jerusalem would fall, he shook with fear, went into isolation, and grew depressed. But when he came up for air, the words he spoke anchored him God. Christians who know the words he spoke remember them, at least well enough to put into their own words and apply them to tough times they face.
Habakkuk 3
Faith of a prophet who lost his country: Habakkuk
Video: The Greatest Show of Faith on Earth
Map Thebes in Egypt
Map Thebes in Egypt
Map Thebes in Egypt
God's warning to Nineveh
What makes you think you’re better than Thebes The city protected by Amon, And, like you, with walls of water? Armies of nations defended Thebes: Egypt and her allies, Ethiopia, Lybia, and Put. None of that mattered at all. Invaders captured Thebes, Smashed babies in the rocks, And arrested survivors for exile. Invaders threw dice for the nobles. Top officials left home in chains. You in Nineveh get a dose of that, too. The enemy will shock you And you’ll stagger like drunks. Then you’ll run for your lives and hide. Nahum 3:8-11Thebes in Egypt