Micah 3:11
The heads thereof have judged for gifts, and the priests thereof have answered for hire, and her prophets have divined for silver: and yet they have rested on the Lord, saying, Is not the Lord among us? no evil shall come upon us.
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In Context
10who build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
Cross References
Numbers 22:7And the elders of Moab went, and the elders of Midian, and their divining instruments were in their hands; and they came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.
1 Samuel 8:3And his sons did not walk in his way; and they turned aside after gain, and took gifts, and perverted judgments.
Proverbs 17:23The ways of a man who unjustly receives gifts in his bosom do not prosper; 1 And an ungodly man perverts the ways of righteousness. 1
Isaiah 48:2maintaining also the name of the holy city, and staying themselves on the God of Israel: the Lord of hosts is his name. The former things I have already declared;
Jeremiah 5:12have lied to their Lord, and they have said, These things are not so; no evils shall come upon us; and we shall not see sword or famine.
Jeremiah 7:4Trust not in yourselves with lying words, for they shall not profit you at all, saying, It is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Micah 3:9-12
The Crimes of the Princes and Prophets. ( b. c. 726.) 8 But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord , and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin. 9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. 10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. 11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine… Read the whole commentary →