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Weeping and Mourning

Micah 1:15

In 11 translations

BSB
I will again bring a conqueror against you, O dweller of Mareshah. The glory of Israel will come to Adullam.Mareshah sounds like the Hebrew for conqueror.
KJV
Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.inhabitant: Heb. inhabitresshe…: or, the glory of Israel shall, etc
WEB
I will yet bring a conqueror to you, inhabitants of Mareshah. The glory of Israel will come to Adullam.
ASV
I will yet bring unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah, him that shall possess thee: the glory of Israel shall come even unto Adullam.
LSV
Yet I bring the possessor to you, O inhabitant of Mareshah, || The glory of Israel comes to Adullam.
YLT
Yet the possessor I do bring in to thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah, To Adullam come in doth the honour of Israel.
DBY
I will yet bring unto thee an heir, O inhabitress of Mareshah; the glory of Israel shall come even unto Adullam.
DRC
Yet will I bring an heir to thee that dwellest in Maresa: even to Odollam shall the glory of Israel come.
GNV
Yet will I bring an heire vnto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah, he shall come vnto Adullam, the glorie of Israel.
JPS
I will yet bring unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah, him that shall possess thee; the glory of Israel shall come even unto Adullam.
LXXE
until they bring the heirs, O inhabitant of Lachis: the inheritance shall reach to Odollam, even the glory of the daughter of Israel.

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Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
  • Aleppo Codex and Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia and Ben Chaim’s Second Rabbinic Bible reads עֲדֻלָּ֥ם; Leningrad Codex reads עֲדֻּלָּ֥ם (“Adullam”).

Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.

Original-language editions

WLC
עֹ֗ד הַיֹּרֵשׁ֙ אָ֣בִי לָ֔ךְ יוֹשֶׁ֖בֶת מָֽרֵשָׁ֑ה עַד־עֲדֻּלָּ֥ם יָב֖וֹא כְּב֥וֹד יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Marks a place where we agree with BHQ against BHS in reading L.Marks an anomalous form.We read punctuation in L differently from BHS.
LXX-Br
ἕως τοὺς κληρονόμους ἀγάγωσι, κατοικοῦσα Λαχείς· κληρονομία ἕως Ὀδολλὰμ ἥξει, ἡ δόξα τὴς θυγατρὸς Ἰσραήλ.

Who and where

📍 Adullam📍 Mareshah◆ Prophecies of Micah

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In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Joshua 15:44Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah—nine cities, along with their villages.
  • 1 Samuel 22:1So David left Gath and took refuge in the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s household heard about it, they went down to him there.
  • Joshua 15:35Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,
  • Jeremiah 49:1Concerning the Ammonites, this is what the LORD says: “Has Israel no sons? Is he without heir? Why then has Milcom taken possession of Gad? Why have his people settled in their cities?
  • Isaiah 10:5–6Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath. I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to…
  • 2 Chronicles 11:7Beth-zur, Soco, Adullam,
  • Isaiah 7:17–25The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since the day Ephraim separated from Judah—He will bring the king of Assyria.” On that day the LORD will whistle to the…
  • Joshua 12:15the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
  • Isaiah 10:3What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

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