Matthew Poole and continuators on Micah 1:5

5 For the transgression of Jacob is all this , and for the sins of the house of Israel . What is the transgression of Jacob ? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem .

The singular for the plural, the many transgressions committed amongst them, but especially that [illegible: 1 letter]loud of iniquity which springing up in Samaria did overflow the whole Kingdom, Idolatry, pride, luxury, cruelty and oppression.

The sons of Jacob, the Ten Tribes most likely are here meant by Jacob.

All these, many, and great, inevitable and irresistible Judgments of God foretold, and which will overtake, and utterly ruin these Sinners.

The people of the Kingdom of Judah called here by the name of Israel. Or else this and the former phrase may comprehend the Twelve Tribes which were fallen from Gods Law and Worship, and be an elegant ingemination to confirm the thing spoken.

Or, who is? i. e. the spring, and cause of that over[illegible: 1 letter]lowing Transgression, who brought in the abominable Idolatry?

Here is meant the Kingdom of the Ten Tribes▪ the head of which was Samaria, where the Kings of that Kingdom had their Royal Residence, where they worshipped Idols, whence they issued out their Edicts, and which became Example to the rest of the Israelitish Kingdom.

Or, who is, i. e. cause of the high places, and the Idolatry there practised?

Which was chief City of that Kingdom, and place where their Kings dwelt, had the same influence of that Kingdom as Samaria had on the Ten Tribes, there was the Example they imitated, thence the Laws they obey'd contrary to Gods Law.