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And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:
Micah 5:12 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB I will destroy witchcraft from your hand; and you shall have no soothsayers.
  • BSB I will cut the sorceries from your hand, and you will have no fortune-tellers.
  • NKJV I will cut off sorceries from your hand, And you shall have no soothsayers.
  • NASB “I will eliminate sorceries from your hand, And you will have no fortune-tellers.
  • NLT I will put an end to all witchcraft, and there will be no more fortune-tellers.

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Quick answer

God will abolish witchcraft and soothsaying from among His people. It promises the removal of forbidden occult practices.

Overview

Sorcery and divination were pagan attempts to control the future apart from God, and He will cut them off. Their removal cleanses the people from spiritual rebellion. God's purifying work targets not only military pride but also false spiritual reliance.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 9

  • Deut 18:10–12There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.
  • Isa 8:19–20And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
  • Rev 22:15For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
  • Isa 2:20In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
  • Zech 13:2–4And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.
  • Isa 2:18And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
  • Rev 19:20And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
  • Isa 2:6–8Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
  • Isa 27:9By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Micah videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — verse-by-verseDavid Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on MicahMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

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  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

Christ at the center

Micah names the town — 'But you, Bethlehem... from you shall come forth one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origins are from of old' — the birthplace of the eternal King.

How Micah 5:12 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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