Micah 5:10-15 God protects his purified kingdom

10 And in that day, declares the Lord,
I will cut off your horses from among you
and will destroy your chariots;
11 and I will cut off the cities of your land
and throw down all your strongholds;
12 and I will cut off sorceries from your hand,
and you shall have no more tellers of fortunes;
13 and I will cut off your carved images
and your pillars from among you,
and you shall bow down no more
to the work of your hands;
14 and I will root out your Asherah images from among you
and destroy your cities.
15 And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance
on the nations that did not obey.

The great seventh prophecy of hope in chs. 4-5 also refers to that day (see 4:1, 6), the day the remnant under the Messiah conquers the nations. The addition, declares the LORD (see 4:6), guarantees its fulfilment. It refers to the protection of Israel in two ways: the purification of Israel within (10-14) and the punishment of the disobedient nations without (15).
    10-14 The prophecy, I will destroy (10-13), is God’s answer to the prayer of v 9. The Hebrew verb behind ‘destroy’ frequently refers to the removal of persons that have violated Israel’s holiness (e.g. ‘cut–off’ in Lv. 17:10; 20:3-6), a measure to preserve Israel in the face of God’s wrath against the unholy. The objects, the works of their own hands, consigned for annihilation from among them (10, 13, 14) threaten Israel’s faith in God: military might (10-11; cf. Dt. 17:16-17), sorcery (12; cf. Dt. 18:9-13) and [p. 829] idolatry (13-14; cf. Dt. 7:5). Isaiah (2:6-8) accuses Israel of placing their confidence in these very things. The military hardware includes the offensive horse–drawn chariots (10) and the defensive cities, all the strongholds (11).
12 The NIV omits after witchcraft ‘from your hand’, a phrase that stresses they are human fabrications.
13 The same point is made with carved images and sacred stones, the stylized representations of the male deity, Baal.
15  Vengeance in the Bible is a legal term signifying that a ruler secures his kingdom by protecting his subjects and punishing their persecutors. The disrespect of the unbelieving nations for his holy kingdom incurs his anger and wrath. Throughout history God has protected his rule against the nations that have not obeyed him, but he will finally execute his protective power at Christ’s second coming (Lk. 18:7-8; 21:22; 2 Thes. 1:8; Rev. 6:10).



Application
While Israel feared her enemies that were outside her border, what enemies within her borders did Micah expect destroyed (vv. 10-14)?

Often we see others as our enemies, but what inside you is an enemy to God's purposes (vv. 10-14)?