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4:1 \u201c\u2018And it shall happen in future days that the mount of the LORD\u2019s house shall be firm-founded at the top of the mountains and lifted over the hills.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The first four verses of this chapter duplicate Isaiah 2:2-4, constituting the most extensive such duplication between two prophets. There are only minor differences (e.g, when Isaiah says \u201cnations,\u201d Micah says \u201cpeoples\u201d). Different explanations have been offered for the duplication: that Micah borrowed from Isiah, that Isaiah borrowed from Micah, that both drew on a common source, that a later editor inserted the passage in both books. This last alternative seems the least likely; and an unknown common source is merely a conjectural hypothesis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

These two prophets were roughly contemporaneous, but given the fact that Isaiah was the more prominent figure–see, for example, the narrative in 2 Kings 20, where the king turns to him at a moment of crisis–it may be more plausible that Micah took from Isaiah. Scrolls of the prophecies evidently had some circulation in the prophet\u2019s lifetime.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One point where there are two small additions as well as a substituted term in Micah may provide a clue: verse 3 reads \u201cAnd He shall judge among many peoples \/ and be arbiter to vast nations from far away.\u201d In Isaiah it is: \u201cAnd He shall judge among the nations \/ and be arbiter for many people.\u201d Micah adds \u201cmany\u201d in the first verset, heightens \u201cmany\u201d to \u201cvast\u201d in the second, and inserts \u201cfar away\u201d at the end. By and large, this kind of amplification is a telltale sign of adopting and \u201cimproving\u201d a preexisting text.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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