Jonah’s closing concern for Nineveh contributes to the nations trajectory that Micah develops into a vision of many peoples streaming to YHWH’s mountain for instruction and peace. Jonah’s concern for a Gentile city and Micah’s vision of many peoples seeking the LORD belong to a developing biblical nations trajectory. The relationship should be stated only as strongly as the approved evidence allows.

Micah’s vision that people sit securely with none making them afraid is echoed in Zephaniah’s purified remnant feeding and lying down with none making them afraid. Micah and Zephaniah share the distinctive security promise that the restored remnant will live with “none” making them afraid.

Joel reverses the same plowshare/pruninghook peace saying preserved in Micah: tools of cultivation are turned back into weapons for the nations’ judgment muster.