Matthew Poole and continuators on Micah 1:6

6 Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field , and as plantings of a vineyard ; and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley , and I will discover the foundations thereof. .

For these sins of Samaria, and the Kingdom of Israel.

Not by an immediate hand from Heaven, but by the Assyrians under the Conduct of Salman[illegible: 1 letter]s[illegible: 1 letter]r, they shall do it as my Servants saith the Lord.

Much like Isa. 25.2. that beautiful City shall be made, and so left as a ruinous heap in the field.

In planting Vineyards, they did dig up the earth▪ and cast it up in hillocks, cast out all the stones, so shall they make this City;

The City was built on a high Hill, and a deep Valley beneath it, now when 'twas sackt by the Assyrians, they pull'd down the buildings, and cast the stones thereof into that Valley, so God did by them throw down the stones of Samaria.

Rase the Walls, Fortresses, and publick buildings of this City to the very foundations of it, nor leave one stone upon another, as Mat. 24.2. and Luk. 19.44. in a word, here is foretold an utter desolation upon Samaria for her sin, such a desolation as shall not leave the least foorsteps of Samaria in the place where once it stood.

Marginal references: chap. 2.12.