Micah 3:1
Then I said, “Please listen, leaders of the descendants of Jacob, people of Israel. You are meant to know the difference between right and wrong,
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2you who hate good and love evil! You tear off their skin, and rip the flesh from their bones.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:13You must choose for yourselves wise, experienced men with good judgment from each of your tribes, and I will put them in charge as your leaders.”
2 Chronicles 19:5He appointed judges throughout the country, in all of the fortified towns of Judah.
Psalms 14:4Won't these people who do evil ever learn? They consume my people as if they were eating bread, and refuse to pray to the Lord.
Isaiah 1:10Listen to what the Lord has to say, you rulers of Sodom! Pay attention to the instructions of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
Jeremiah 5:4Then I said to myself, “These people are only the poor—they're just fools who don't know any better. They certainly don't know what the Lord wants, God's right way of living.
Jeremiah 13:15Listen and pay attention. Don't be arrogant, for the 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 →