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Micah 5:12
I will cut the sorceries from your hand, and you will have no fortune-tellers.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Yahweh speaks through the prophet Micah to a rebellious nation, following the judgment of dismantling their cities and strongholds. The declaration marks the next phase of divine purification.
The words — The verb הִכְרַתִּי (hikh.ra.Ti) means "I will cut off," applied directly to כְשָפִים (khe.sha.Fim), "sorceries." The noun מְעוֹנְנִים (me.'o.Nim), "soothsayers," is paired with לֹא יִהְיוּ (lo yih.yu), literally "they will not be."
The thread — The text places this purge alongside the removal of carved images and sacred pillars in Micah 5:13. The prohibition against consulting occult sources aligns with the commands in Deuteronomy 18:10 and Isaiah 8:19, while Revelation 22:15 lists sorcerers among those excluded from the holy city.
Why it lands — The passage demands the complete removal of divination and spirit consultation as incompatible with reliance on God. Readers must stop seeking guidance from occult practices and direct their inquiry solely to the divine.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:
Cross-references
- Deuteronomy 18:10 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,
- Isaiah 8:19 When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?
- Revelation 22:15 But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
- Isaiah 2:20 In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship.
- Isaiah 2:6 For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
- Isaiah 2:18 and the idols will vanish completely.
- Zechariah 13:2 And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will also remove the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.
- Revelation 19:20 But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both the beast and the false prophet were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
- Isaiah 27:9 Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.