{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_mic004_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_mic004_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_mic004_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/poly/mic004.htm","summary":"This is a parallel-text scholarly edition of Micah 4:1\u201313 (with a partial verse 14), presenting the same prophetic passage in four textual traditions simultaneously: the Hebrew Masoretic Text (labeled \"Tan\"), the Greek Septuagint (LXX, labeled \"Sep\"), the Latin Vulgate (\"Vul\"), and the King James Version (\"KJV\") with embedded Strong's concordance numbers throughout the English column. The format is designed for comparative textual study, allowing readers to examine translation choices and textual variants across traditions at the word level.\n\nThe passage itself is a prophetic vision attributed to the prophet Micah, proclaiming an eschatological age when the Temple Mount will be exalted above all hills, nations will stream to Jerusalem to receive divine instruction, and God will arbitrate global conflicts \u2014 most famously expressed in the image of swords beaten into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks, with nations ceasing to learn war. The prophecy then shifts to address Zion directly, promising that the lame and exiled will be gathered, God will reign from Mount Zion forever, and Zion will be restored to its \"first dominion\" \u2014 but only after passing through exile in Babylon, from which God will redeem it. The closing verses portray hostile nations gathered against Zion being unknowingly assembled for their own destruction, with Zion commissioned to thresh them.\n\nA distinctive textual note: the Septuagint version adds a verse 14 (absent from the KJV and Vulgate columns here) about the \"daughter of Ephraim,\" reflecting a known divergence between the Hebrew and Greek textual traditions at this point. The primary audience for this document is someone engaged in serious biblical philology or comparative scriptural study, not casual reading.","tags":["Book of Acts","Greek New Testament","Polyglot Bible"],"text":null,"title":"Polyglot Bible: Micah: Micah 4","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":1428}