Micah 3:1

And I say, “Now hear, O heads of Jacob, || And you judges of the house of Israel, || Is it not for you to know the judgment?

Literal Standard Version

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

2You who are hating good, and loving evil, || Taking violently their skin from off them, || And their flesh from off their bones,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:13Provide wise and understanding men for yourselves that are known to your tribes, and I set them for your heads;

2 Chronicles 19:5And he establishes judges in the land, in all the fortified cities of Judah, for every city,

Psalms 14:4Have all working iniquity not known? Those consuming my people have eaten bread, || They have not called YHWH.

Isaiah 1:10Hear the word of YHWH, you rulers of Sodom, || Give ear to the Law of our God, you people of Gomorrah,

Jeremiah 5:4And I said, “Surely these [are] poor, || They have been foolish, || For they have not known the way of YHWH, || The judgment of their God.

Jeremiah 13:15Hear, and give ear—do not be haughty, || For YHWH 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 →

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