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?

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?

In Context

2Who hate the good, and love the evil; who rob their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:13Get you, from each one of your tribes, wise men, and understanding, and full of knowledge, 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 14:4'Shall not all the workers of iniquity know it, who eat up My people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD?'

Isaiah 1:10Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

Jeremiah 5:4And I said: 'Surely these are poor, they are foolish, for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the ordinance of their God;

Jeremiah 13:15Hear ye, and give ear, be not proud; for the LORD hath 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 →

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