Micah 3:1
And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel. Is it not for you to know justice?
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Deuteronomy 1:13Take for you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.
2 Chronicles 19:5And he set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,
Psalms 14:4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon LORD?
Isaiah 1:10Hear the word of LORD, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
Jeremiah 5:4Then I said, Surely these are poor, they are foolish, for they know not the way of LORD, nor the law of their God.
Jeremiah 13:15Hear ye, and give ear, be not proud, for LORD has spoken.
Matthew Henry on Micah 3:1
What the apostle says of another of the prophets is true of this, who was also his contemporary—"Esaias is very bold," Rom. x. 20 . So, in this chapter, Micah is very bold in reproving and threatening the great men that were the ringleaders in sin; and he gives the reason ( ver. 8 ) why he was so bold, because he had commission and instruction from God to say what he said, and was carried out in it by a higher spirit and power than his own. Magistracy and ministry are two great ordinances of God, for good to his… Read the whole commentary →