Micah 7:6

Sin so divides households that children turn against parents and a man's enemies are his own family. It depicts society's moral disintegration reaching into the home.

Cross-references · 21

• Matt 10:35–36For I have come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
• Luke 12:53They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
• Matt 10:21Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
• Ps 41:9Even my close friend whom I trusted, the one who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.
• 2 Tim 3:2–3For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
• Ezek 22:7Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
• Ps 55:12–14For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide.
• Luke 21:16You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you will be put to death.
• Matt 26:49–50Going directly to Jesus, he said, “Greetings, Rabbi!” and kissed Him.
• Matt 26:23Jesus answered, “The one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with Me will betray Me.
• Jer 12:6Even your brothers—your own father’s household—even they have betrayed you; even they have cried aloud against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.
• Prov 30:11There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
• John 13:18I am not speaking about all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the Scripture: ‘The one who shares My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’
• Obad 1:7All the men allied with you will drive you to the border; the men at peace with you will deceive and overpower you. Those who eat your bread will set a trap for you without your awareness of it.
• 2 Sam 16:21–23Ahithophel replied, “Sleep with your father’s concubines, whom he has left to keep the palace. When all Israel hears that you have become a stench to your father, then the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”
• Gen 9:22–24And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.
• 2 Sam 16:11Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my own son, my own flesh and blood, seeks my life. How much more, then, this Benjamite! Leave him alone and let him curse me, for the LORD has told him so.
• Gen 49:4Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.
• Jer 20:10For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him.”
• Prov 30:17As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.
• 2 Sam 15:10–12Then Absalom sent spies throughout the tribes of Israel with this message: “When you hear the sound of the horn, you are to say, ‘Absalom reigns in Hebron!’”

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