Charles Ellicott Commentary


Charles Ellicott Commentary
"And all her graven images shall be beaten to pieces, and all her hires shall be burned with fire, and all her idols will I lay desolate; for of the hire of a harlot hath she gathered them, and unto the hire of a harlot shall they return." — Micah 1:7 (ASV)
And all the hires thereof. —The falling away of Israel from her loyalty to God is compared generally by the prophets to a wife deserting her husband; and these “hires” are the offerings made to the shrines of the idols to which the Israelites, forsaking Jehovah, had transferred their worship. All these treasures will be destroyed; the Assyrians will carry them off for the adornment of their temples.