Micah 3:11
Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets tell fortunes for money; yet they lean on the LORD, and say, “Isn’t the LORD among us? No disaster will come on us.”
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In Context
10who build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
Cross References
Numbers 22:7The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand. They came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.
1 Samuel 8:3His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned away after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.
Proverbs 17:23A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert the ways of justice.
Isaiah 48:2for they call themselves citizens of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; the LORD of Armies is his name.
Jeremiah 5:12They have denied the LORD, and said, “It is not he. Evil won’t come on us. We won’t see sword or famine.
Jeremiah 7:4Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘The LORD’s temple, the LORD’s temple, the LORD’s temple, are these.’
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 →