Charles Ellicott Commentary Micah 1:2

"Hear, ye peoples, all of you: hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord Jehovah be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple." — Micah 1:2 (ASV)

Hear, all ye people. —The threefold repetition of the appeal, “Hear ye,” seems to mark three divisions in the book:

1. “Hear, all ye people” (Micah 1:2);
2. “Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob” (Micah 3:1);
3. “Hear ye now what the Lord saith” (Micah 6:1).

From his holy temple — that is, from heaven; for “the Lord is in His holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in heaven” (Psalms 11:4).

Micaiah, the son of Imlah, ended his appeal to Ahab and Jehoshaphat with the words with which Micah opens his prophecy, “Hearken, O people, every one of you” (1 Kings 22:28).