Micah 3:1

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

Leeser Tanakh

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

2[But they are those] who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:13Furnish for yourselves wise and understanding men, and those known among your tribes, and I will place them as chiefs over you.

2 Chronicles 19:5And he appointed judges in the land in all the fortified cities of Judah, in city by city.

Psalms 14:4Is there no knowledge in all the workers of wickedness? who eat up my people as they eat bread; [while] they do not call on 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 5:4Yet I myself thought, Oh these are but poor; they are foolish; for they knew not the way of the Lord, the ordinance of their God.

Jeremiah 13:15Hear ye, and bend your 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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