Book of Micah Quotes
They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and none shall make them afraid.
Old Testament, Micah 4:4
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Both the British and the Belgians were vying for Katanga to become a part of their empire. Msiri, it’s king was a cruel tyrant, was hated by his people, many of whom he had had murdered. Each night he slept in a different hut for fear of assassination. The appeal was typical of European powers “persuading” African potentates to join their empires.
His government had just used force to disarm the rebellion of religious Kurds.
The Book of Micah is the sixth of the twelve minor prophets in the Hebrew Bible. Ostensibly, it records the sayings of Micah, whose name is Mikayahu (Hebrew: מִיכָיָ֫הוּ), meaning "Who is like Yahweh?", an 8th-century BCE prophet from the village of Moresheth in Judah (Hebrew name from the opening verse: מיכה המרשתי).