Edward Bulwer-Lytton, an English author, once wrote: “The pen is mightier than the sword”. Indeed, throughout the ages, literature and texts have been used to fight for what is right and to speak for the unspoken. To elaborate from that, the words of the Bible also could be as dangerous as any armies in the world. In the Book of Micah and specially in Micah 3, the prophet Micah voiced his perspective into the text; a perspective that indicated both hope and distrust in their God, YHWH; and the longing for justice that could fix Israel’s corrupt govern system and sinful religious leaders.
According to the New Oxford Annotated Bible, the prophet Micah revealed very little information about himself. However, based on the context of his text which mentioned about the fall of Samaria in 722 BCE (Micah 1.6) and the campaign of Sennacherib in 701 BCE (Micah 1.10-16), it is most likely that he was active around the last final quarter of the eighth century BCE (Bible 1306). There were a lot of significant events that happened in the Northern Kingdom of Israel around the eighth and seventh century but they were not necessarily “good” events. In 722 BCE, Israel was destroyed by Assyria. However, the fallen of Israel was not unanticipated; but instead it was the ending of a long declining period.…show more content… According to Miller and Hayes, the prophet Micah mentioned: “the Omride reputation for economic and social injustice” and “this latter text speaks of injustice, cheating, wicked scales, deceitful weight, violence, lies, and deceitful tongues, all of which it seems to equate with ‘the statutes of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab’” (274). Despite of the lack of leadership and fairness of the House of Omri, whom reigned from 885 to 843 BCE, Israel still managed to exist for another century until its fallen (Miller 220). In the late eighth
