Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
⛓ Read Micah 3 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
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A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Micah prophesies that Zion will be plowed as a field and Jerusalem become heaps, the temple mount a wooded height, the classic oracle of the temple's destruction quoted at Jeremiah 26:18. Jesus' prediction that not one stone will be left on another draws directly on this prophetic tradition of the sanctuary leveled for the people's injustice. High coherence with Luke's broader judgment-on-Jerusalem theme.
High confidenceJesus' oracle that not one stone of the temple will be left on another reprises the classic prophetic threat that Zion will be plowed as a field and the temple mount become a wooded height. Micah's word is itself remembered in Jeremiah 26:18 as a precedent for temple-doom prophecy, giving recurrence; the volume (a prophet announcing the sanctuary's ruin) is strong and the coherence with Jeremiah 7 below is tight.
High confidenceThe prophecy that not one stone of the temple will be left on another reprises Micah's oracle that 'Zion shall be plowed as a field, Jerusalem shall become heaps,' the classic prophetic word of the temple's destruction; Jeremiah cites Micah 3:12 in his temple sermon (Jer 26:18), making it the paradigmatic temple-doom text.
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