Micah 3:1

And I said: 1 Hear, O Rashei Ya'akov, 1 and ye Ketzinim of Bais Yisroel. 1 Is it not for you to have da'as of Mishpat (Justice)? 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 tov, and love the rah; 1 who tear off their skin from off them, 1 and their flesh from off their atzamot (bones); 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:13Take you anashim chachamim, men of wisdom and understanding, who are known among your tribes, and I will set them over you.

2 Chronicles 19:5And he appointed Shofetim in HaAretz throughout all the fortified cities of Yehudah, city by city,

Psalms 14:4Have all the workers of iniquity no da'as? 1 Who eat up my people as they eat lechem, 1 and call not upon Hashem. 1

Isaiah 1:10Hear the Devar Hashem, 1 ye rulers of Sodom; 1 give ear unto the Torat Eloheinu, 1 ye people of Amora (Gomorrah). 1

Jeremiah 5:4Therefore I said: Surely these are poor; 1 they are foolish; 1 for they know not the Derech Hashem, 1 nor the Mishpat Eloheihem. 1

Jeremiah 13:15Hear ye, and give ozen (ear); 1 be not proud: 1 for Hashem hath spoken. 1

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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