Jeremiah 26:18

“Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, etc.] Or, Micah of Maresha, as the Targum. Mareshah was a city of the tribe of Judah, (<061544>Joshua 15:44); the native place, of this prophet; who appears, by the following quotation, to be the same Micah that stands among the minor prophets; and who is also so called, and lived in the times of Hezekiah, (<330101>Micah 1:1); and spake to all the people of Judah; very openly and publicly, and just as Jeremiah had done, (<242602>Jeremiah 26:2,7,8); saying, thus saith the Lord of hosts, Zion shall be ploughed [like] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps; Mount Zion, on part of which the temple was built, and on the…”

“(Mic 3:12). Morasthite--called so from a village of the tribe Judah. Hezekiah--The precedent in the reign of such a good king proved that Jeremiah was not the only prophet, or the first, who threatened the city and the temple without incurring death. mountain of the house--Moriah, on which stood the temple (peculiarly called "the house") shall be covered with woods instead of buildings. Jeremiah, in quoting previous prophecies, never does so without alteration; he adapts the language to his own style, showing thereby his authority in his treatment of Scripture, as being himself inspired.”

“Micah - This was that Micah, whose prophecies are part of holy writ, as appears by Mic 1:1, Mic 3:12, where are the very words of the prophecy here mentioned, the substance of whose prophecy was the same with this, that Zion should be plowed up, and the place where the temple stood, should become so desolate that trees should grow there, as in a forest. Jeremiah 26:19”

“Mic 3:12 Micah: Mic 1:1 Zion: Josephus relates that Titus, after he had taken Jerusalem, ordered his soldiers to demolish it, except three of the largest and most beautiful towers, and the western wall of the city; all the rest was levelled, so that they who had never before seen it, could scarcely persuade themselves it had been inhabited. The Jewish writers also inform us, that Turnus Rufus, whom Titus had left in command, ploughed up the very foundations of the temple. When Dr. Richardson visited this sacred spot in 1818, he found one part of Mount Zion supporting a crop of barley, and another undergoing the labour of the plough. the soil turned up consisted of stone and lime mixed with…”