Micah 3:11
Your leaders judge for a bribe, 1 your priests teach for a price, 1 and your prophets do divination for money. 1 Yet you rely on Yahweh and say, 1 “Is not Yahweh with us? 1 No evil will come on us.” 1
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10You build Zion with blood 1 and Jerusalem with iniquity. 1
Cross References
Numbers 22:7So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian left, taking payment for divination. They came to Balaam and spoke to him Balak's words.
1 Samuel 8:3His sons did not walk in his ways, but chased after dishonest gain. They took bribes and perverted justice.
Proverbs 17:23A wicked man accepts a secret bribe 1 to pervert the ways of justice. 1
Isaiah 48:2For they call themselves people of the holy city 1 and trust in the God of Israel. Yahweh of hosts is his name. 1
Jeremiah 5:12They have spoken falsely about Yahweh and they said, “He will do nothing; 1 no harm will come upon us, and we will not see sword or famine. 1
Jeremiah 7:4Do not entrust yourself to deceitful words and say, “Temple of Yahweh! Temple of Yahweh! Temple of Yahweh!”
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 →