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WHO HATE THE GOOD AND LOVE THE EVIL - that is, they hate, for its own
sake, that which is good, and love that which is evil. The prophet is
not here speaking of their “hating good” men, or “loving evi...
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THE SECOND PROPHETIC MESSAGE
CHAPTER 3
_ 1. Address to the godless princes and judges (Micah 3:1) _
2. Address to the false prophets (Micah 3:5)
3. The verdict of judgment (Micah 3:9)...
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THE UNJUST RULERS AND FALSE PROPHETS OF JUDAH. Micah first addresses
those whose official duty it is to know justice, _i.e._
sympathetically, and declares that in fact they love its opposite, and
crue...
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_THE SINS OF THE PRINCES -- MICAH 3:1-4:_ In a simple, but very sad
statement God said, "They love evil and hate good."_ _ Micah
encouraged the leaders to listen to God. The princes were unjust and
go...
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CHAPTER VIII
THIRD CYCLE
OUTRAGES OF CIVIL OFFICIALS. Micah 3:1-4
RV. And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and rulers of the
house of Israel: is it not for you to know justice? ye who ha...
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WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES
Micah returns to his indictment against the people's leaders. Their
power was given for the sake of justice, and they have abused it for
extortion (Micah 3:1). Their time sha...
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FROM OFF THEM] i.e. the common people.
4. When God comes to judgment, they will find no mercy....
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Good leaders have delight in God’s law (Psalms 1:2; Psalms 19:7-11).
But the leaders at the time when Micah lived were different. They
hated God’s law. Micah understood the problem. These leaders did...
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MICAH SPEAKS A MESSAGE FROM GOD TO ALL THE NATIONS
MICAH
_LES PAINTER_
CHAPTER 3
SECTION 2
3:1-5:15 MICAH ACCUSES FALSE LEADERS. HE PROMISES THAT A GOOD, FAIR
KING WILL COME
3:1-12 THE FALSE LEA...
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WHO HATE THE GOOD. — The judges, instead of fulfilling the
obligations of their office, whereby they should be “for the people
to God-ward,” perpetrated the most flagrant cruelty upon them. Micah
comp...
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שֹׂ֥נְאֵי טֹ֖וב וְ אֹ֣הֲבֵי _רָ֑ע_†
גֹּזְלֵ֤י עֹורָם֙
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THE PROPHET OF THE POOR
Micah 2:1; Micah 3:1
WE have proved Micah's love for his countryside in the effusion of his
heart upon her villages with a grief for their danger greater than his
grief for Je...
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THE PUNISHMENT OF AVARICE
Micah 3:1-12
The princes who as magistrates should have administered justice to
others sat around the caldron, casting in the very flesh and skin of
the people whom they wer...
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Addressing himself directly to the rulers of the people, in this
second message the prophet describes their peculiar sin, and announces
the coming judgment. He then foretells the coming of the one tru...
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Who hate the good, and love the evil; (b) who pluck off their skin
from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
(b) The Prophet condemns the wicked governors not only of
covetousness, theft,...
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_Skins. When some exhorted Tiberius to lay on more taxes, he replied:
"a good shepherd must shear the flock, and not tear off the skin."
(Suetorius xxxii.)_...
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It must have been a sad day with the Church, and indeed the history of
those times proves it was, when it was as with the priest, so with the
people. A state of general corruption prevailed. Isaiah th...
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Lectures on the Minor Prophets.
W. Kelly.
The prophecy of Micah, like all the rest, has its own distinctive
properties, though falling into the general current of testimony to
Israel, and so far with...
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He afterwards subjoins, _But they hate good, and love evil, and pull
off the skin _(94) _from my people, the flesh from their bones; _that
is, they leave nothing, he says, sound and safe, their rapaci...
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The prophet again denounces the heads and princes of Jacob. They
should cry unto Jehovah. But He would not hear them. No prophet should
enlighten them with the light of His word. The seers should be
c...
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WHO HATE THE GOOD, AND LOVE THE EVIL,.... Instead of knowing and doing
what was just and right; or, directly contrary to their light and
knowledge, and the duty of their office, they hated that which...
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Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from
off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
Ver. 2. _Who hate the good, and love the evil_] _q.d._ That you know
not judgment,...
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_Hear, O heads of Jacob_, &c. That the justice of God, in bringing
upon them the punishments which he had threatened, might more
evidently appear, the prophet here shows that there was no rank of
them...
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THE SINS OF THE RULERS AND THE DESOLATION OF ZION.
Also in this Chapter the discourse is directed to the nobility of the
people, who abused the authority of their high official station by
oppressing...
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Who hate the good and love the evil, doing just the opposite of that
which their station required of them; WHO PLUCK OFF THEIR SKIN FROM
OFF THEM, as though flaying the children of their people, AND T...
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1-8 Men cannot expect to do ill, and fare well; but to find that done
to them which they did to others. How seldom do wholesome truths reach
the ears of those in high stations or in authority! Those...
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WHO HATE THE GOOD: in practice and affection these rulers were
directly contrary to what they should have been and done, they hated
not only to do good, but they hated the good which was to be done, a...
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Micah 3:2 hate H8130 (H8802) good H2896 love H157 (H8802) evil H7451
strip H1497 (H8802) skin...
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MICAH'S INDICTMENT OF JUDAH (MICAH 3:1).
Micah inveighs first against the leadership of Judah, and then against
the prophets who make people err for the sake of money, and the
priests who teach for hi...
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CONTENTS: Coming judgments of the captivities. The priests and
prophets rebuked.
CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, princes, prophets.
CONCLUSION: Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well simply because...
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Micah 3:10. _They build up Zion with blood._ The Chaldaic reads, they
build up the houses of Zion with blood. They oppress the poor to a
premature death, in order to build their town and country house...
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_Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of
Israel _
CIVIL RULERS
I. What civil rulers ought always to be. They ought always to “know
judgment,” that is, always practically t...
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MICAH 3:1 The Present Injustice and the Future Prospect of Just Rule
in Jerusalem. The second section focuses on the corrupt leadership in
the house of Israel (Micah 3:1). Jerusalem’s restoration amon...
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MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 3:2 TEAR... EAT... FLAY... BREAK... CHOP. The
imagery of cannibalism symbolizes the destructive violence of the
leaders against the oppressed (compare Psalms
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CRITICAL NOTES.] Punishment is threatened against the heads and
leaders of Israel.
MICAH 3:1. PRINCES] Administrators of justice. YOU] Above every one.
TO KNOW] To regard justice (Isaiah 42:25).
Mica...
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EXPOSITION
VERSE 3:1-5:15
Part II. DENUNCIATION OF THE CRIMES OF THE GRANDEES, FOLLOWED BY A
PROMISE OF THE GLORIFICATION OF ZION, THE BIRTH...
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Now the Lord speaks of the coming judgment that is going to come
against those that have gone into captivity.
And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the
house of Israel; Is...
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1 Kings 21:20; 1 Kings 22:6; 2 Chronicles 19:2; 2 Timothy 3:3; Act
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The good — Ye who hate not only to do good, but the good which is
done, and those that do it. The evil — Chuse, and delight in, both
evil works and evil workers. Who pluck it off — Ye who use the floc...