Micah 4:1 KJV
But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
Scofield Notes
- mountainGeneral predictions concerning the kingdom. In Scripture a mountain is the symbol of a great earth power Dan 2:35, hills, of smaller power. The prediction...
- it shall be exaltedSee "remnant" (See Scofield "Jer 15:21")
Matthew Henry
- The peace of the kingdom of ChristThe nations have not yet so submitted to the Prince of Peace, as to beat their swords into ploughshares, nor has war ceased. But very precious promises these...
Thompson Chains
- Last DaysLink 4 of 7 · next Acts 2:17
- ProphesyingSee the chain from Numbers 11:25 · 10 links
- Growth of KingdomSee the chain from Psalms 72:16 · 7 links
- AccessionsSee the chain from Acts 2:41 · 12 links
Parallel Passages
- Isaiah 66:20 And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.
- Daniel 2:35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908).
Cross References
- Isaiah 2:1–4 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. …
- Psalms 22:27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
- Jeremiah 3:17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
- Zechariah 8:3 Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.
- Psalms 86:9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.
- Ezekiel 43:12 This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
- Daniel 2:44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
- Daniel 7:27 And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
- Hosea 3:5 Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.
- Micah 3:12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
- Zechariah 14:16–21 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. …
- Revelation 21:1–8 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. …
- Genesis 49:1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
- Genesis 49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
- Psalms 68:15–16 The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan. …
- Psalms 68:29–32 Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee. …
- Psalms 72:7–11 In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth. …
- Psalms 72:16–19 There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth. …
- Psalms 110:3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.
- Isaiah 11:9–10 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. …
- Isaiah 27:13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 43:6 I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;
- Isaiah 49:6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
- Isaiah 49:19–23 For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away. …
- Isaiah 54:2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
- Isaiah 60:3–14 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. …
- Isaiah 66:18–23 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory. …
- Jeremiah 16:19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
- Jeremiah 48:47 Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
- Ezekiel 17:22–24 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent: …
- Ezekiel 38:16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
- Ezekiel 40:2 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south.
- Daniel 2:28 But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;
- Daniel 2:35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
- Daniel 7:14 And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
- Daniel 7:18 But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.
- Daniel 7:22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
- Zephaniah 3:9–10 For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent. …
- Zechariah 2:11 And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee.
- Malachi 1:11 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.
- Acts 2:17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
- Romans 11:25–26 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. …
- Hebrews 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
- Revelation 11:15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
- Revelation 15:4 Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.
- Revelation 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
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Topics
- Church Prophecies concerning prosperity of
- Gospel Prophecies relating to
- Jesus, the Christ Prophecies concerning universality of the kingdom of
- Micah Prophesies the coming of the Messiah
- Revivals Prophecies concerning
Timeline
- Timeline of the Bible759–698 BC · Micah, in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah
Places
- Mount ZionHill · Location well established
- Places in Micah 4 on a map
Bible Dictionary
- LordThere are various Hebrew and Greek words so rendered.
Hebrew and Strong’s
- But in the last וְהָיָה wĕhāyâ Verb · qal sequential perfect, third person masculine singular · with and בְּאַחֲרִית bĕʾaḥărît אַחֲרִית Noun · feminine singular construct · with preposition
- days הַיָּמִים hayyāmîm יוֹם Noun · masculine plural · with the
- it shall come to pass, that the mountain יִהְיֶה yihyê Verb · qal imperfect, third person masculine singular הַר har הַר Noun · masculine singular construct
- of the house בֵּית bêt בַּיִת Noun · masculine singular construct
- of the LORD יְהוָה yhwh יְהֹוָה Proper name
- shall be established נָכוֹן nākôn כּוּן Verb · niphal active participle, masculine singular
- in the top בְּרֹאשׁ bĕrōʾš רֹאשׁ Noun · masculine singular construct · with preposition
- of the mountains הֶהָרִים hehārîm הַר Noun · masculine plural · with the
- and it shall be exalted וְנִשָּׂא wĕniśśāʾ נָשָׂא Verb · niphal active participle, masculine singular · with and הוּא hûʾ Pronoun · third person masculine singular
- above the hills מִגְּבָעוֹת miggĕbāʿôt גִּבְעָה Noun · feminine plural · with preposition עָלָיו ʿālāyw Preposition · with suffix: third person masculine singular
- and people עַמִּים ʿammîm עַם Noun · masculine plural
- shall flow וְנָהֲרוּ wĕnāhărû נָהַר Verb · qal sequential perfect, third person common plural · with and
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