Spoke 11: Micah and 1Kings

Spoke 11: Micah and 1Kings

Comparing the 11th book of the 1st cycle 1Kings with the 11th book of the 2nd cycle Micah. They are read as hand and glove. Here is a taste of th links that exist between the two books, a taste of what is coming.

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Hear O people, O heads of Jacob

Type of link:
Identical Phrases

Both mention either hear O people or O heads of Jacob.



1Kings 22 - Listen (The 11th book of the Bible, also the 11th spoke, 1st cycle of the Biblewheel, 1Kings 22)

4 And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramothgilead? * And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.
19 And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
28 And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, the LORD hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O people, every one of you.
43 And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.


Micah 3 - Listen (The 33rd book of the Bible, also the 11th spoke, 2nd cycle of the Biblewheel, Micah 3)

1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
5 Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

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Knowing judgment/Jehoshaphat, Micaiah/Micah and Imlah/full

Both mention knowing judgment/Jehoshaphat and Imlah/full. Michaiah was the son of Imlah, meaning he was filled, by what? the Spirit of God. And Micaiah and Micah have the same meaning, who is like unto God? Adding to that are the words Spirit and might which tie these two books on the 11th Spoke to Isaiah 11's description of the Spirit of the LORD. The 7 attributes of the Spirit of the LORD are mentioned throughout 1Kings. And to Jehoshaphat has been given the Spirit of might and perhaps even counsel since he sought the LORD's prophet's counsel in 1Kings 22.



1Kings 22 - Listen (The 11th book of the Bible, also the 11th spoke, 1st cycle of the Biblewheel, 1Kings 22)


2 And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
3 And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we be still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria?
4 And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramothgilead? * And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.
5 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD to day.
7 And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might enquire of him?
8 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
9 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten hither Micaiah the son of Imlah.
10 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne, having put on their robes, in a void place in the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.
18 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?
21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him.
22 And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
23 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.
24 But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?
29 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramothgilead. *
30 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.
32 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel. And they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out.
41 And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
42 Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
44 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he shewed, and how he warred, are they not written in the book of the chronicles * of the kings of Judah?
48 Jehoshaphat made * ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.
49 Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.
50 And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.
51 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth * year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel.


Micah 3 - Listen (The 33rd book of the Bible, also the 11th spoke, 2nd cycle of the Biblewheel, Micah 3)

1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
8 But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.

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High places, house, Jerusalem/peace and mountain

Both the 11th books of the 1st and 2nd cycle of the Biblewheel, 1Kings 22 and Micah 3 mention high places. Gilead went through the same fate as Jerusalem becoming a heap of ruins.



1Kings 22 - Listen (The 11th book of the Bible, also the 11th spoke, 1st cycle of the Biblewheel, 1Kings 22)

17 And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace.
27 And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, * and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.
39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles * of the kings of Israel?
42 Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
43 And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.
44 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.


Micah 3 - Listen (The 33rd book of the Bible, also the 11th spoke, 2nd cycle of the Biblewheel, Micah 3)

1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
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.


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Sun going down

Both mention sun going down of the sun.



1Kings 22 - Listen (The 11th book of the Bible, also the 11th spoke, 1st cycle of the Biblewheel, 1Kings 22)


15 So he came to the king. And the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go against Ramothgilead * to battle, or shall we forbear? And he answered him, Go, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
25 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in that day, when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
27 And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, * and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.
30 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.
36 And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own country.
37 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.


Micah 3 - Listen (The 33rd book of the Bible, also the 11th spoke, 2nd cycle of the Biblewheel, Micah 3)

6 Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark * unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.
11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.

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Who hate the good and love the evil

Identical Phrases

Both mention who hate the good and love the evil. Both Ahab in 1Kings 22 and the heads of the house of Jacob, referring to the rulers in Jerusalem in Micah's time similarly hated the good and loved the evil.



1Kings 22 - Listen (The 11th book of the Bible, also the 11th spoke, 1st cycle of the Biblewheel, 1Kings 22)


8 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
13 And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is good.
18 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?
23 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.
52 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin:


Micah 3 - Listen (The 33rd book of the Bible, also the 11th spoke, 2nd cycle of the Biblewheel, Micah 3)

2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
4 Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.
11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.

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Hear O people, O heads of Jacob



Both mention either hear O people or O heads of Jacob.



1Kings 22 - Listen (The 11th book of the Bible, also the 11th spoke, 1st cycle of the Biblewheel, 1Kings 22)


4 And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramothgilead? * And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.
19 And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
28 And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, the LORD hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O people, every one of you.
43 And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.


Micah 3 - Listen (The 33rd book of the Bible, also the 11th spoke, 2nd cycle of the Biblewheel, Micah 3)

1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
5 Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

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Micah mentions the false prophets in Micah 3 and also mentioned in 1Kings 22.

[1Ki 22:6 KJV]
Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall deliver [it] into the hand of the king.

[1Ki 22:7 KJV]
And Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might enquire of him?

[1Ki 22:8 KJV]
And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, [There is] yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

And just as Micaiah was by himself, the son of Imlah, which means "he filled". Of what? Most probably the Holy Ghost. In contrast to the false prophets in Micah 3, Micah says that he was full of the Holy Ghost and power.

[Mic 3:1 KJV]
And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; [Is it] not for you to know judgment?

[Mic 3:2 KJV]
Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

[Mic 3:3 KJV]
Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

[Mic 3:4 KJV]
Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

[Mic 3:5 KJV]
Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

[Mic 3:6 KJV]
Therefore night [shall be] unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

[Mic 3:7 KJV]
Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for [there is] no answer of God.

[Mic 3:8 KJV]
But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

[Mic 3:9 KJV]
Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

[Mic 3:10 KJV]
They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

[Mic 3:11 KJV]
The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, [Is] not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.

[Mic 3:12 KJV]
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.

Micah 6 mentioned that God had a controversy with the people. The Hebrew word for controversy with the people is Jeroboam. And it was Jeroboam who led the opposition in 1Kings 11 and 12.

[Mic 6:2 KJV] Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.

[1Ki 11:26 KJV]
And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's servant, whose mother's name [was] Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up [his] hand against the king.

Micah 6 warns Judah of keeping the statutes of Omri and Ahab also mentioned in 1Kings 16-22. 

[Mic 6:16 KJV]

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.


[1Ki 16:25 KJV]
But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than all that [were] before him.


[1Ki 16:29 KJV]
And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.


[1Ki 16:30 KJV]
And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above all that [were] before him.


[1Ki 16:31 KJV]
And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.


[1Ki 16:32 KJV]
And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.


[1Ki 16:33 KJV]
And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.


[1Ki 16:34 KJV]
In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest [son] Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.


The woman to be careful about in Micah 7 is characterized as Jezebel in 1Kings 16-22, especially chapter 21. And her end is predicted by both Elijah in chapter 21 and Micah 7.

[Mic 7:5 KJV]
Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

[Mic 7:10 KJV]
Then [she that is] mine enemy shall see [it], and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.

[1Ki 21:5 KJV]

But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?

[1Ki 21:6 KJV]

And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee [another] vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.

[1Ki 21:17 KJV]

And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

[1Ki 21:23 KJV]

And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.

Both 1Kings 4 and Micah 4 talk about the millennial kingdom. 1Kings 4 is a shadow of the Millennial kingdom. Both mention everyone sitting under the vine and fig tree. 

[Mic 4:4 KJV]
But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make [them] afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken [it].

[1Ki 4:25 KJV]

And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.

The pillars of the temple in 1Kings 7 Jachin and Boaz mean "he will establish" and "in strength".

[Mic 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.

[Mic 5:4 KJV]

And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.

[1Ki 7:21 KJV]
And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.

[1Ki 7:22 KJV]
And upon the top of the pillars [was] lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.

Micah 4 mentioned that the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established higher than the other mountains. And in Micah 5 the Messiah will feed in the strength of the LORD.

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[Jer 20:1 KJV] Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who [was] also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.

[Jer 20:2 KJV] Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that [were] in the high gate of Benjamin, which [was] by the house of the LORD.

[Jer 20:3 KJV] And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.

And when did this come to pass? The 11th year of Zedekiah's reign:

[Jer 1:3 KJV] It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.

And notice the similarities such as the name Zedekiah and smiting and imprisonment in the 11th book of the 1st cycle 1Kings:

[1Ki 22:24 KJV] But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?

[1Ki 22:25 KJV] And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in that day, when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.

[1Ki 22:26 KJV] And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;

And the 11th book of the 2nd cycle Micah:

[Mic 5:1 KJV] Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.