Cross-Reference Analysis
Cross-Reference and Theme Analysis: Micah (French Destination Language)
Step 3 — Cross-Reference Matrix
0. Methodology and Citation Normalization
- Every citation in the matrices below is given in normalizable canonical form:
Book Chapter:Verseusing standard English book names (e.g., “Micah 6:8”, “Galatians 2:16”, “Genesis 15:6”), matching the format required for machine cross-reference matching across curricula. - For Phase 2 production documents, citations must be re-rendered into French Bible citation convention per the baseline’s Cross-Reference Preservation Rules (book names: Genesis → Genèse, Isaiah → Ésaïe, Matthew → Matthieu, Romans → Romains, etc.). A full French book-name mapping table is provided in §6 below for every book cited in this document, extending the baseline’s partial list.
- “OT/NT Connection” records whether the link is a direct quotation (verbatim or near-verbatim), an allusion (clear but non-verbatim echo), or typological (a pattern/person/event understood as prefiguring a later fulfillment, per historic Christian exegesis).
- “Translation Sensitivity” flags risk tier (Critical/High/Medium/Low) consistent with
doctrine_risk_registry.jsonconventions, plus a specific rendering-consistency instruction where a term or phrase must match wording used elsewhere in this curriculum or, prospectively, in the Romans curriculum. - Coverage is exhaustive across Micah 1–7; no chapter is silently omitted. Verses without load-bearing cross-references (mostly geographic/lament catalogues in ch. 1 and legal-code echoes in ch. 6) are noted as “reviewed, no additional cross-reference” where applicable.
1. Chapter 1 — Judgment on Samaria and Judah
| Passage (Micah) | Theme | Related Character | OT/NT Connection | Translation Sensitivity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Micah 1:1 | Prophetic superscription | Micah, Jotham/Ahaz/Hezekiah | Allusion — formulaic pattern shared with Hosea 1:1; Amos 1:1 | Low. Keep standard superscription register; no doctrinal risk. |
| Micah 1:2 “Hear, all you peoples” | Covenant lawsuit summons | Micah; earlier prophet Micaiah ben Imlah | Direct echo — 1 Kings 22:28, where the prophet Micaiah (same Hebrew name-root as Micah) says nearly identical words | Medium. The name-echo (Micah/Micaiah) is a deliberate literary link in Hebrew; French cannot reproduce the pun, but a translator’s note connecting “Michée” (this book) and “Michée, fils d’Imla” (1 Rois 22) helps readers see Micah standing in a line of true prophets opposed to court flatterers — reinforces the “Judgment on Corrupt Leaders” / false-prophets doctrine. |
| Micah 1:3-4 theophany, mountains melt | God’s coming in judgment | — (divine action) | Allusion — Judges 5:4-5; Psalm 97:5; Nahum 1:5 (shared theophany-storm imagery across the prophets) | Medium. Render consistently with “le SEIGNEUR” (YHWH divine-name convention, see §5) wherever this theophany language recurs across the curriculum’s OT excerpts. |
| Micah 1:6-7 Samaria’s idols smashed | Idolatry judged | Samaria (northern kingdom) | Allusion — 2 Kings 17:9-18 (narrative account of Samaria’s idolatry and fall); Hosea 13:16 | High (reuses idols new-term entry). Keep “idoles” in explicit cultic sense; do not let the historical-narrative connection to 2 Kings drop the religious weight into mere political commentary. |
| Micah 1:10 “Tell it not in Gath” | Lament wordplay | David (allusion) | Direct quotation — 2 Samuel 1:20 (David’s lament for Saul and Jonathan, “Tell it not in Gath, proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon”) | Medium. If 2 Samuel 1:20 is ever rendered elsewhere in this language package, the phrase “ne l’annoncez pas à Gath” should match verbatim for readers who recognize the citation. |
| Micah 1:8-16 town-name wordplay catalogue | Judgment lament | — | Allusion — genre parallel to Isaiah 10:28-32 (list of towns in the path of judgment) | Low. Wordplay is untranslatable; a single translator’s note at 1:10 suffices for the whole unit. |
2. Chapter 2 — Oppression, False Prophets, and the Promised Remnant
| Passage (Micah) | Theme | Related Character | OT/NT Connection | Translation Sensitivity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Micah 2:1-2 coveting and seizing fields | Justice violated (mishpat) | wealthy landowners | Allusion — Isaiah 5:8 (“Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field”) | Medium. Keep “convoiter / s’approprier par la violence” consistent with Isaiah-style woe-oracle register if Isaiah is ever added to this language package. |
| Micah 2:2 violating inheritance | Land/inheritance law | — | Allusion — Leviticus 25:23-28; Numbers 36:7-9 (inalienability of tribal inheritance) | Medium. Background note recommended: Israelite land law, not merely a generic property-rights complaint. |
| Micah 2:6-11 false prophets silencing true prophecy | Judgment on Corrupt Leaders | Micah vs. false prophets; echoes Micaiah ben Imlah vs. Zedekiah’s prophets | Allusion — 1 Kings 22:1-28 (Micaiah alone tells the truth against 400 false prophets); Jeremiah 6:14; 23:16-17 (“Peace, peace,” false assurance) | High (reuses false_prophets new-term entry). “Faux prophètes” must retain the contrast with Spirit-given true prophecy (Micah 3:8); do not soften to “prophètes dissidents” or similar neutral language. |
| Micah 2:12-13 remnant gathered like sheep; “the Breaker” | Hope of Restoration | — | Typological — the LORD as Shepherd-King going before his flock anticipates John 10:4 (“the sheep follow him… he goes before them”) and Exodus 13:21 (the LORD going before Israel in the wilderness) | High (reuses remnant/she'erit entry). “Reste” must carry the gloss “le reste fidèle, préservé par Dieu” here at its first full doctrinal occurrence. |
3. Chapter 3 — Corrupt Leaders: Rulers, Prophets, and Priests
| Passage (Micah) | Theme | Related Character | OT/NT Connection | Translation Sensitivity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Micah 3:1-3 leaders “eat the flesh of my people” | Judgment on Corrupt Leaders | civic rulers | Allusion — Ezekiel 34:2-4 (shepherds who feed themselves instead of the flock) | High. Both texts indict leaders who exploit rather than shepherd; if Ezekiel 34 is ever used elsewhere in this language package, keep “berger” (shepherd) vocabulary consistent, and contrast with Christ the Good Shepherd (John 10:11) typologically, not merely as a leadership-management metaphor. |
| Micah 3:5-7 false prophets, “the sun goes down on the prophets” | Judgment on Corrupt Leaders | false prophets | Allusion — Amos 8:11-12 (famine of hearing the word of the LORD); Ezekiel 13:1-9 (false prophets who “see” nothing) | Medium. |
| Micah 3:8 “I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD, and with justice” | True Prophecy / Spirit-empowerment | Micah himself | Typological/allusion — Isaiah 61:1 (“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me”), later fulfilled in Luke 4:18; conceptually parallels Ephesians 5:18 (being filled with the Spirit) | High. This is the one verse where Micah’s own mishpat (“justice”) and Spirit-filling converge — do not let “justice” here drift toward the Romans-baseline forensic sense; it names Micah’s Spirit-given courage to denounce injustice, not his personal righteous standing before God. |
| Micah 3:9-11 corrupt judges, priests “teach for a price,” false prophets “divine for money” | Judgment on Corrupt Leaders | judges, priests (kohanim), prophets | Allusion — shared triad (ruler/priest/prophet corruption) also indicted together in Jeremiah 6:13; Zephaniah 3:3-4 | High (reuses priests/“sacrificateurs” entry). Keep “sacrificateurs,” not “prêtres,” for this Levitical office throughout. |
| Micah 3:12 “Zion shall be plowed as a field… a heap of ruins” | Judgment on Corrupt Leaders → sets up Ch. 4 hope | Zion/Jerusalem | Direct quotation — Jeremiah 26:18, where the elders of the land defend Jeremiah by citing Micah 3:12 verbatim as recognized, authoritative prior prophecy | Critical rendering-consistency case. This is one of the few places in the entire OT where one prophet’s exact words are later cited word-for-word by name in another prophetic book. If Jeremiah is ever added to this language package, Jeremiah 26:18’s French rendering of the quoted line must match Micah 3:12 exactly, word for word. Flag now in translation memory as a forward-looking consistency lock. |
4. Chapter 4 — Future Restoration: The Mountain of the LORD’s House
| Passage (Micah) | Theme | Related Character | OT/NT Connection | Translation Sensitivity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Micah 4:1-3 mountain of the LORD’s house exalted; nations stream to it | Hope of Restoration; Kingdom Mission | — | Direct near-verbatim parallel — Isaiah 2:2-4 (the two texts share almost identical Hebrew wording) | Critical. These are the two closest word-for-word parallel oracles in the prophetic corpus. If Isaiah is ever included in this language package, the French of Isaiah 2:2-4 and Micah 4:1-3 must be rendered identically wherever the wording is identical in Hebrew, so students recognize the parallel rather than perceiving two different oracles. |
| Micah 4:3 “swords into plowshares” | Kingdom Mission / eschatological peace | — | Shared with Isaiah 2:4 (see above); echoed negatively/reversed in Joel 3:10 (“beat your plowshares into swords”) | High (reuses new-term entry). Note the deliberate OT irony: Joel reverses Micah/Isaiah’s image for a war context — worth a brief cross-reference note if Joel is added later. Re-anchor to kingdom_of_god doctrine against the modern secular UN-slogan reading. |
| Micah 4:4 “each man under his vine and fig tree” | Restoration / covenant shalom | Solomon (allusion) | Allusion — 1 Kings 4:25 (Solomon’s reign described in identical terms); Zechariah 3:10 | Medium. |
| Micah 4:6-8 remnant gathered, lame and outcast made a remnant | Hope of Restoration | — | Allusion — Zephaniah 3:19 (“I will gather the lame”); typological anticipation of Luke 14:21 (the outcast invited to the banquet) and Matthew 15:24 (Jesus gathering “the lost sheep”) | High (reuses remnant entry). |
| Micah 4:8, 10, 13 daughter of Zion in labor pains | Restoration through distress | Zion personified | Typological — labor-pains imagery recurs in Isaiah 26:17 and Revelation 12:2 (woman in labor, messianic community) | Medium. Keep figurative; do not literalize “birth” language into a claim about a literal childbirth event. |
| Micah 4:9-10 “you shall go to Babylon” | Predictive specificity of exile | — | Forward allusion, fulfilled in 2 Kings 24:10-16; 25:1-21 (the actual Babylonian exile, roughly a century after Micah’s ministry, since Assyria — not yet Babylon — was the contemporary threat) | Medium. Worth a background note: Micah names the future exiling power (Babylon) while Assyria is the present threat elsewhere in the same book (5:5-6) — helps readers track the book’s layered timeframe. |
5. Chapter 5 — The Coming Ruler from Bethlehem
| Passage (Micah) | Theme | Related Character | OT/NT Connection | Translation Sensitivity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Micah 5:2 “But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah…” | The Coming Ruler from Bethlehem; Davidic Covenant | David (typological ancestor); the coming Ruler | Direct quotation — Matthew 2:6 (the magi narrative, chief priests and scribes cite Micah 5:2 as fulfilled in Jesus’ birth); also alluded to in John 7:42 | Critical. “Bethléem Éphrata” must be rendered identically in any future Matthew 2:6 material in this language package — this is the paradigm OT-to-NT fulfillment citation for the entire curriculum. Route every occurrence to human theologian review, matching the baseline’s routing for messianic_promise (Romans 1:3-4). |
| Micah 5:2 “whose goings forth are from of old, from ancient days” | Deity of Christ; Sonship of Christ | the coming Ruler | Typological/doctrinal connection — read by historic Christian exegesis alongside John 1:1-2 (“In the beginning was the Word”), Colossians 1:17 (“he is before all things”), and the baseline’s own deity_of_christ/sonship_of_christ doctrines anchored in Romans 1:3-4 and Romans 9:5 | Critical. This is Micah’s direct Old Testament feed into the baseline’s Critical-risk Christology doctrines. Rendering must preserve the eternity sense (see 08_core_glossary.md); route to human theologian review exactly as Romans 1:3-4/8:29 are routed. |
| Micah 5:3 “until she who is in labor has given birth” | The Coming Ruler; Incarnation background | the Ruler’s mother (typological) | Allusion — Isaiah 7:14 (“the virgin shall conceive and bear a son”), itself quoted in Matthew 1:23; also echoes Micah’s own 4:8-10 labor imagery | High. Do not over-literalize the connection to Isaiah 7:14 as if Micah names the virgin directly — the link is thematic/typological, not a shared quotation; keep the distinction clear in any teaching note. |
| Micah 5:4 “he shall stand and shepherd his flock” | The Coming Ruler as Shepherd-King | the Ruler | Typological — anticipates John 10:11 (“I am the good shepherd”) and 1 Peter 2:25 (“the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls”) | Medium (reuses shepherd/“berger” entry). |
| Micah 5:5 “he shall be their peace” | The Coming Ruler secures peace | the Ruler | Direct echo — Ephesians 2:14 (“For he himself is our peace”), widely read as a direct NT pickup of this exact Micah phrase | High. If Ephesians is ever added to this language package, render “il sera notre paix” / “il est notre paix” consistently between the two passages so the echo is visible to French readers, reusing baseline “paix.” |
| Micah 5:7-8 remnant among the nations “like dew,” “like a lion” | Hope of Restoration; scattered remnant | Jacob’s remnant | Allusion/typological continuity — scattered-but-preserved remnant theology continues into NT diaspora address, e.g. James 1:1 (“to the twelve tribes in the Dispersion”), 1 Peter 1:1 | Medium (reuses remnant entry). |
6. Chapter 6 — True Worship versus Empty Ritual (Core Passage Chapter)
| Passage (Micah) | Theme | Related Character | OT/NT Connection | Translation Sensitivity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Micah 6:1-2 covenant lawsuit; mountains/hills as witnesses | True Worship versus Empty Ritual | — | Allusion — genre parallel to Deuteronomy 32:1 (heaven and earth summoned as witnesses in the Song of Moses); Isaiah 1:2; Psalm 50:1-6; Hosea 4:1 | High (reuses covenant_lawsuit/riv entry). Keep “le procès du SEIGNEUR” — a weaker “dispute” loses the formal legal-covenant genre shared across these texts. |
| Micah 6:3-5 recital of Exodus, Balaam/Balak, Shittim to Gilgal | Covenant history as evidence | Moses, Aaron, Miriam, Balaam, Balak | Direct historical allusion — Exodus 14 (the Exodus itself); Numbers 22-24 (Balaam and Balak); Joshua 3:1-4:19 (Shittim to Gilgal, crossing the Jordan) | Medium. This recital-of-salvation-history genre also parallels Joshua 24:2-13, 1 Samuel 12:6-11, and Psalm 78 — a recognizable Deuteronomic covenant-renewal pattern; a brief background note aids readers with low OT narrative literacy (flagged already in 07_semantic_analysis.md). |
| Micah 6:6 “with what shall I come before the LORD” | True Worship versus Empty Ritual | — | Allusion — the rhetorical-question form parallels Psalm 40:6-8 (“Sacrifice and offering you have not desired… burnt offering and sin offering you have not required”), directly quoted in Hebrews 10:5-8 | High. See consolidated note below on the Micah 6:6-8 / Hosea 6:6 / 1 Samuel 15:22 / Amos 5:21-24 / Matthew 23:23 cluster. |
| Micah 6:6-7 escalating sacrifice, up to child sacrifice | True Worship versus Empty Ritual | — | Allusion — implicit rejection of Canaanite Molech-style child sacrifice, explicitly forbidden in Leviticus 18:21; Deuteronomy 12:31 | High (reuses firstborn new-term entry). Must be glossed as rhetorical/rejected, never prescriptive. |
| Micah 6:8 “do justice, love mercy/kindness, walk humbly” | Justice, Mercy, and Humility (core passage) | — | Direct/near-direct parallel cluster: 1 Samuel 15:22 (“to obey is better than sacrifice”); Hosea 6:6 (“I desire mercy [chesed] and not sacrifice”), itself quoted twice by Jesus in Matthew 9:13 and Matthew 12:7; Amos 5:21-24 (“let justice roll down like waters”); Isaiah 1:11-17 (rejected sacrifices, do justice); and climactically, Matthew 23:23, where Jesus rebukes the Pharisees for neglecting “justice, mercy, and faithfulness [κρίσις, ἔλεος, πίστις]” — an unmistakable triadic echo of Micah 6:8 | Critical. This is the single most theologically load-bearing cross-reference cluster in the book. Rendering-consistency rule: if Hosea 6:6 or Matthew 23:23 are ever included in this language package, “mercy” in those verses should be reviewed against the same “miséricorde” (horizontal chesed) vs. “compassion reçue” distinction established for Micah 6:8, since Matthew 23:23’s triad (justice/mercy/faithfulness) is the New Testament’s own reception of Micah’s ethical demand and must read as continuous with it, not as an unrelated NT teaching. |
| Micah 6:8 “justice” (mishpat) | Justice, Mercy, and Humility | — | See homonym-collision note already flagged in 07_semantic_analysis.md and 08_core_glossary.md against Romans’ “justice” (δικαιοσύνη) | Critical. Cross-reference reinforcement: Romans 3:20 (“no human being will be justified… by works of the law”) and Romans 3:21-26 (God’s righteousness apart from the law) must never be taught as if Micah 6:8 and Romans’ justification doctrine are making the same claim. Micah addresses ethical conduct within the covenant relationship already established; Romans addresses how right standing before God is established in the first place. Any lesson pairing Micah 6:6-8 with Romans must state this distinction explicitly. |
| Micah 6:9-16 deceitful scales, statutes of Omri, violence | Justice, Mercy, and Humility; Judgment on Corrupt Leaders | Omri (1 Kings 16) | Direct legal-code allusion — Leviticus 19:35-36; Deuteronomy 25:13-16; Proverbs 11:1; Amos 8:5 (false weights/scales condemned) | Medium. |
7. Chapter 7 — Hope of Restoration and Forgiveness
| Passage (Micah) | Theme | Related Character | OT/NT Connection | Translation Sensitivity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Micah 7:1-6 societal/familial breakdown, “son treats father with contempt… daughter rises against her mother” | Judgment / social collapse preceding restoration | — | Direct quotation — Matthew 10:35-36 (Jesus: “For I have come to set a man against his father… a man’s enemies will be those of his own household”); parallel Luke 12:53 | Critical rendering-consistency case. If Matthew 10:35-36 or Luke 12:53 are ever included in this language package, the French rendering of the family-division phrases must match Micah 7:6 wording so the deliberate NT citation is visible, not obscured by two independently-translated phrasings. |
| Micah 7:7 “I will look to the LORD… wait for God my Savior” | Hope of Restoration | Micah (personal voice) | Allusion — Habakkuk 2:1 (the prophet’s watch-post of expectant waiting); Psalm 130:5-6 | Medium. |
| Micah 7:8-10 “when I fall, I shall rise… enemy says, Where is your God?” | Hope of Restoration despite present distress | — | Allusion — Psalm 42:3, 10 (“Where is your God?”); typological anticipation of resurrection-hope language (cf. baseline’s resurrection_of_christ doctrine, though not a direct fulfillment text) | Medium. Do not over-claim a resurrection-of-Christ typology here; “I shall rise” is about the nation’s restoration, not a christological resurrection proof-text. Flag for reviewer caution. |
| Micah 7:11-13 rebuilding of walls | Hope of Restoration | — | Allusion — Amos 9:11 (“I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen”), cited in Acts 15:16-17 at the Jerusalem Council regarding Gentile inclusion | Medium. Worth noting for the “Unity of Jews and Gentiles” thematic overlap with the Romans baseline (Romans 15:7-12). |
| Micah 7:14 “shepherd your people with your staff” | Restoration; shepherd imagery | God as Shepherd | Typological continuity with 5:4; Psalm 23:1; Ezekiel 34:23; John 10:11 | Medium (reuses shepherd entry). |
| Micah 7:15 “as in the days when you came out of Egypt” | Restoration as new Exodus | — | Allusion — Isaiah 11:16 (a highway from Assyria “as there was for Israel when they came up from the land of Egypt”) | Low/Medium. |
| Micah 7:18-20 “Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity… casting sins into the depths of the sea” | Hope of Restoration and Forgiveness (climax) | Micah (name-pun payoff) | Direct allusion — Exodus 34:6-7 (the LORD’s self-revealed character to Moses: “merciful and gracious… forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin”), the classic OT mercy-formula echoed also in Numbers 14:18, Nehemiah 9:17, Psalm 86:15, Psalm 103:8-12, Joel 2:13, Jonah 4:2, Nahum 1:3 | Critical. This is the book’s theological climax and the resolution of the prophet’s own name-question (1:1; “Mi-kha-Yah” = “Who is like YHWH?”). If any of the parallel Exodus 34:6-7 echo-texts above are added to this language package, “pardonner l’iniquité” and related mercy-formula vocabulary should be checked for consistency, since they all derive from the same fixed Hebrew liturgical formula. |
| Micah 7:20 “oath…to Abraham” | Hope of Restoration; Abrahamic Covenant | Abraham, Jacob | Direct historical reference — Genesis 12:1-3; Genesis 15:1-21; Genesis 22:16-18 (the Abrahamic covenant oath); thematically resumed in Romans 4:1-25 (Abraham justified by faith, citing Genesis 15:6) and Galatians 3:6-9, 16 | High — major curriculum-crossing parallel. Romans 4 (already governed by the baseline’s imputed_righteousness Critical entry) and Micah 7:20 both ground their hope in God’s covenant oath to Abraham, but from different angles: Romans 4 addresses how an individual is counted righteous (by faith, Genesis 15:6); Micah 7:20 addresses God’s covenant faithfulness undergirding national restoration. Keep “alliance” (baseline term, reused) consistent for the covenant concept in both, but do not conflate the two distinct doctrinal points in teaching material. |
8. Consolidated Messianic and Typological Cross-Reference Summary
| Micah passage | Type | NT fulfillment / typology | Doctrine fed (baseline or new) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Micah 5:2 | Direct prophecy, quoted | Matthew 2:6; John 7:42 | messianic_promise (Critical, Romans baseline) — Micah 5:2 is its principal OT source text |
| Micah 5:2b (“goings forth… from ancient days”) | Typological/doctrinal | John 1:1-2; Colossians 1:17; Romans 1:3-4; Romans 9:5 | deity_of_christ, sonship_of_christ (both Critical, Romans baseline) |
| Micah 5:3 | Allusion | Isaiah 7:14 → Matthew 1:23 | incarnation (Medium, Romans baseline) |
| Micah 5:4-5 | Typological + direct echo | John 10:11 (shepherd); Ephesians 2:14 (peace) | lordship_of_christ background; peace_with_god (Romans baseline) |
| Micah 6:8 triad | NT reception | Matthew 23:23 | justice_mercy_humility (new curriculum doctrine) |
| Micah 6:6-8 | Thematic parallel | Hebrews 10:5-8 (quoting Psalm 40:6-8) | true_worship_versus_empty_ritual (new curriculum doctrine) |
| Micah 7:6 | Direct quotation | Matthew 10:35-36; Luke 12:53 | judgment_on_corrupt_leaders / social-order theme |
| Micah 7:18-20 | Allusion to fixed OT formula | Exodus 34:6-7 and its echo-family; conceptually resumed in Romans 11:29 (“the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable”) | hope_of_restoration_and_forgiveness (new curriculum doctrine); background for baseline providence, effectual_calling |
| Micah 7:20 | Direct historical reference | Genesis 12:1-3; 15:6; 22:16-18; Romans 4; Galatians 3 | davidic_covenant/Abrahamic covenant background feeding Romans 4’s imputed_righteousness (Critical, Romans baseline) |
| Micah 4:1-3 | Near-verbatim OT parallel | Isaiah 2:2-4 | kingdom_of_god, kingdom_mission (Romans baseline) |
| Micah 3:12 | Direct quotation by a later prophet | Jeremiah 26:18 | judgment_on_corrupt_leaders (new curriculum doctrine) |
9. Rendering-Consistency Rules for Shared Quotations
- Micah 5:2 / Matthew 2:6 (Bethléem Éphrata). Any future translation of Matthew 2:6 in this language package must reuse “Bethléem Éphrata” exactly as fixed for Micah 5:2 in
08_core_glossary.md. Do not shorten to “Bethléem” alone in either passage when the doctrinal point (fulfilled prophecy) is in view. - Micah 4:1-3 / Isaiah 2:2-4 (mountain of the LORD’s house; swords into plowshares). Where Hebrew wording is identical between the two oracles, the French rendering must be word-for-word identical if Isaiah is added to this language package. Do not allow two independently-translated versions of the same oracle to diverge.
- Micah 3:12 / Jeremiah 26:18 (Zion plowed as a field). The quoted clause must match verbatim if Jeremiah is added to this language package; this is a rare, named, verbatim self-citation within the Hebrew canon and should be visibly preserved in French.
- Micah 7:6 / Matthew 10:35-36; Luke 12:53 (household division). Family-division phrasing must match across Micah and any future Matthew/Luke material in this language package so the deliberate dominical quotation remains visible.
- Micah 6:8 / Matthew 23:23 (justice, mercy, faithfulness triad). “Justice” (mishpat) and “miséricorde” (chesed) established for Micah 6:8 should be the first-choice renderings reviewed against Matthew 23:23’s κρίσις/ἔλεος/πίστις triad if Matthew is added; do not let the two triads acquire unrelated vocabulary that obscures Jesus’ direct dependence on Micah’s ethical summary.
- Micah 7:18-20 / Exodus 34:6-7 and its echo-family (Numbers 14:18; Nehemiah 9:17; Psalm 86:15; Psalm 103:8-12; Joel 2:13; Jonah 4:2; Nahum 1:3). “Pardonner l’iniquité” and the associated mercy-formula vocabulary derive from one fixed Hebrew liturgical confession; if any of these passages are added to this language package, cross-check French renderings for family consistency, without forcing artificial uniformity where the Hebrew itself varies slightly between occurrences.
- YHWH (le SEIGNEUR, small caps) vs. Seigneur (κύριος, Christ). This rule, fixed in
07_semantic_analysis.mdand08_core_glossary.md, extends to every cross-referenced OT passage in this document (e.g., Exodus 34:6-7, Deuteronomy 32:1, 1 Kings 22:28, Amos 5:21-24, Habakkuk 2:1). Any future inclusion of these passages must apply the same small-caps “SEIGNEUR” divine-name convention. - Micah 6:6-8 vs. Romans 3-4 “justice”/“justification.” Wherever teaching material places Micah’s core passage alongside Romans, an explicit distinguishing note is required per the homonym-collision flag in
07_semantic_analysis.md§1 (Micah 6:8) — this is a rendering-consistency rule about conceptual, not lexical, consistency: the same French word “justice” must be actively distinguished, not silently merged, across the two curricula. - Micah 7:20 / Romans 4 (Abraham). “Alliance” (covenant) must be reused exactly per the Romans baseline for both curricula’s Abraham material; the doctrinal point of each passage (national covenant faithfulness vs. individual justification by faith) must be kept distinct per the note in §7 above.
10. French Book-Name Mapping (Extends Baseline List)
| English | French | English | French |
|---|---|---|---|
| Micah | Michée | Hosea | Osée |
| Genesis | Genèse | Amos | Amos |
| Exodus | Exode | Jonah | Jonas |
| Leviticus | Lévitique | Nahum | Nahum |
| Numbers | Nombres | Zephaniah | Sophonie |
| Deuteronomy | Deutéronome | Zechariah | Zacharie |
| Joshua | Josué | Malachi | Malachie |
| Judges | Juges | Matthew | Matthieu |
| 1 Samuel | 1 Samuel | Mark | Marc |
| 1 Kings | 1 Rois | Luke | Luc |
| 2 Kings | 2 Rois | John | Jean |
| Nehemiah | Néhémie | Acts | Actes |
| Psalms | Psaumes | Romans | Romains |
| Proverbs | Proverbes | Galatians | Galates |
| Isaiah | Ésaïe | Ephesians | Éphésiens |
| Jeremiah | Jérémie | Colossians | Colossiens |
| Ezekiel | Ézéchiel | Hebrews | Hébreux |
| Habakkuk | Habacuc | James | Jacques |
| Joel | Joël | 1 Peter | 1 Pierre |
| — | — | Revelation | Apocalypse |
All 7 chapters of Micah have been surveyed for OT quotation, allusion, messianic reference, typology, and Romans-curriculum parallel. No chapter is silently omitted; chapters without additional load-bearing cross-references beyond those listed (none found) would be explicitly noted as such — every chapter in this book in fact contributes at least one cross-reference of note.