Micah 5:14 I will uproot from among you your Asherah poles when I demolish your cities.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
I will uproot from among you your Asherah poles when I demolish your cities.

English Standard Version
and I will root out your Asherah images from among you and destroy your cities.

New American Standard Bible
"I will root out your Asherim from among you And destroy your cities.

King James Bible
And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I will pull up the Asherah poles from among you and demolish your cities.

International Standard Version
I will uproot your cultic gods from you, and I will tear down your cities.

American Standard Version
and I will pluck up thine Asherim out of the midst of thee; and I will destroy thy cities.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: and will crush thy cities.

Darby Bible Translation
And I will pluck up thine Asherahs out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy cities.

Young's Literal Translation
And I have plucked up thy shrines out of thy midst, And I have destroyed thine enemies.

Cross References

Exodus 34:13
But you shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:

2 Kings 17:10
And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:

Isaiah 17:8
And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.

Isaiah 27:9
By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

Lamentations 2:2
The LORD has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: he has thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought them down to the ground: he has polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.

Nahum 1:14
And the LORD has given a commandment concerning you, that no more of your name be sown: out of the house of your gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make your grave; for you are vile.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

5:7-15 The remnant of Israel, converted to Christ in the primitive times, were among many nations as the drops of dew, and were made instruments in calling a large increase of spiritual worshippers. But to those who neglected or opposed this salvation, they would, as lions, cause terror, their doctrine condemning them. The Lord also declares that he would cause not only the reformation of the Jews, but the purification of the Christian church. In like manner shall we be assured of victory in our personal conflicts, as we simply depend upon the Lord our salvation, worship him, and serve him with diligence.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

14. groves … cities—The "groves" are the idolatrous symbol of Astarte (De 16:21; 2Ki 21:7). "Cities" being parallel to "groves," must mean cities in or near which such idolatrous groves existed. Compare "city of the house of Baal" (2Ki 10:25), that is, a portion of the city sacred to Baal.