Micah 3:1

I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice?

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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 hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:13Take wise men of understanding who are respected among your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.”

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

Psalms 14:4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on the LORD?

Isaiah 1:10Hear the LORD’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

Jeremiah 5:4Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know the LORD’s way, nor the law of their God.

Jeremiah 13:15Hear, and give ear. Don’t be proud, for the LORD 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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