Micah 3:1

I said, “Now listen, 1 you leaders of Jacob 1 and rulers of the house of Israel: 1 Is it not right for you to understand justice? 1

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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 hate good 1 and love evil, 1 you who tear off their skin, 1 their flesh from their bones— 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:13Take wise men, understanding men, and men of good repute from each tribe, and I will make them heads over you.'

2 Chronicles 19:5He placed judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city.

Psalms 14:4Do they not know anything, those who commit iniquity, 1 those who eat up my people as they eat bread, 1 but who do not call on Yahweh? 1

Isaiah 1:10Hear the word of Yahweh, you rulers of Sodom; 1 listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah: 1

Jeremiah 5:4So I said, “Surely these are only poor people. 1 They are foolish, for they do not know Yahweh's ways, nor their God's decrees. 1

Jeremiah 13:15Listen and pay attention. Do not be arrogant, for Yahweh had 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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