Micah 3:10
They build vp Zion with blood, and Ierusalem with iniquitie.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
In Context
Cross References
Jeremiah 22:13Wo vnto him that buildeth his house by vnrighteousnesse, and his chambers without equitie: he vseth his neighbour without wages, and giueth him not for his worke.
Ezekiel 22:25There is a conspiracie of her prophets in the mids thereof like a roaring lyon, rauening the praye: they haue deuoured soules: they haue taken the riches and precious things: they haue made her many widowes in the mids thereof.
Zephaniah 3:3Her princes within her are as roaring lyons: her iudges are as wolues in the euening, which leaue not the bones till the morow.
John 11:50Nor yet doe you consider that it is expedient for vs, that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
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 →