Micah 1:9
9 For Samaria’s ▼
▼tn Heb “her.”
disease ▼▼tc The MT reads the plural “wounds/plagues”; the singular is read by the LXX, Syriac, and Vg.
is incurable. It has infected ▼
▼tn Heb “come to.”
Judah; it has spread to ▼
▼tn Or “reached.”
the leadership ▼▼tn Heb “the gate.” Kings and civic leaders typically conducted important business at the city gate (see 1 Kgs 22:10 for an example), and the term is understood here to refer by metonymy to the leadership who would be present at the gate.
of my people and even to Jerusalem!
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