Micah 3:1

And I say, 'Hear, I pray you, heads of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Is it not for you to know the judgment?

Young's Literal Translation

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

2Ye who are hating good, and loving evil, Taking violently their skin from off them, And their flesh from off their bones,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:13Give for yourselves men, wise and intelligent, and known to your tribes, and I set them for your heads;

2 Chronicles 19:5And he establisheth judges in the land, in all the fenced cities of Judah, for every city,

Psalms 14:4Have all working iniquity not known? Those consuming my people have eaten bread, Jehovah they have not called.

Isaiah 1:10Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom, Give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah,

Jeremiah 5:4And I — I said, 'Surely these [are] poor, They have been foolish, For they have not known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.

Jeremiah 13:15Hear, and give ear — be not haughty, For Jehovah hath 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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