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And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered [it] of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.
Micah 1:7 — KJV
Beaten to pieces. Compare 2 Chronicles 34:3, 4, 7.
Hires. From the Hebrew ’ethnan, a word frequently used in connection with the hire of a harlot (see Deuteronomy 23:18; Ezekiel 16:31, 34; Hosea 9:1). The meaning of this part of the verse is not clear.
She gathered. The object “it” is supplied. Perhaps “them,” that is, the graven images and the idols, should be substituted. They had been procured through “the hire of an harlot.” Prostitution was carried on in certain pagan temples as part of the worship of the goddess of fertility.
They shall return. The exact meaning of this clause is not clear. The language is highly poetic, and too-close literalism should probably be avoided. The general meaning of the passage seems clear. Samaria is to suffer loss of that in which she had trusted.
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