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.
Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob - resumed from . Here begins the leading subject of the prophecy: a demonstration of his assertion that he is "full of power by the Spirit of Yahweh," ().
Verse 9. _HEAR THIS_] An appeal similar to that in Micah 3:1....
HEAR THIS, I PRAY YOU - The prophet discharges upon them that “judgment” whereof, by the Spirit of God, he was full, and which they “abhorred; judgment” against their perversion of judgment. He rebuke...
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)...
FALSE CONFIDENCE ISSUING IN THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM. Micah again addresses the rulers, who have founded the prosperity of the capital on violence and injustice (Micah 3:9 f.;_ cf._ Jeremiah 22:13...
_THE SINS OF THE LEADERS OF JERUSALEM -- MICAH 3:9-11:_ In a scathing rebuke Micah wrote about the injustice of rulers and love of money of prophets. He said, "You leaders accept bribes for dishonest...
CONCLUSION OF THE DENUNCIATIONS. Micah 3:9-12 RV. Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, that abhor justice, and pervert all equity. They build up Zi...
3:9 judgment, (f-22) Or 'justice.'...
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...
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...
Micah calls together the wicked leaders and rulers. ‘Leaders’ means all types of leaders in *Israel. Isaiah gives examples of what kinds of people these might be (Isaiah 3:2-3). They include strong me...
שִׁמְעוּ ־נָ֣א זֹ֗את רָאשֵׁי֙ בֵּ֣ית יַעֲקֹ֔ב...
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...
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...
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...
The Chapter closeth as it opened, full of judgment; but all preparatory to mercy, as the following Chapter declares. Indeed we ought to read both together, that we might do as the Psalmist did, when h...
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...
The Prophet begins really to prove what he had stated, — that he was filled with the power of the Holy Spirit: and it was, as they say, an actual proof, when the Prophet dreaded no worldly power, but...
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...
HEAR THIS, I PRAY YOU, YE HEADS OF THE HOUSE OF JACOB, AND PRINCES OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL,.... As an instance of his boldness, courage, and impartiality, he begins with the principal men of the land,...
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. Ver. 9. _Hear this, I pray you, ye heads, &c._] He had had a bo...
_Hear this, ye heads of the house of Jacob_, &c. This address to the great men, shows the prophet's courage and impartiality. _That abhor judgment_, &c. Who do not love to pass a right judgment in mat...
Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob and princes of the house of Israel, the very leaders whose wickedness had been described in the first part of the Chapter, THAT ABHOR JUDGMENT, ev...
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...
9-12 Zion's walls owe no thanks to those that build them up with blood and iniquity. The sin of man works not the righteousness of God. Even when men do that which in itself is good, but do it for fi...
This verse is word for word the same in the former part of it with the former part of the first verse of this chapter; we refer thither for explication of it. The prophet having asserted his Divine ca...
Micah 3:9 hear H8085 (H8798) heads H7218 house H1004 Jacob H3290 rulers H7101 house H1004 Israel H3478 abhor...
HE SUMMARISES THE SITUATION IN THE LAND AND DECLARES WHAT WILL COME UPON THEM AS A RESULT (MICAH 3:9). Micah now advises the corrupt leaders of their sins and of what is coming on them because of them...
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...
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...
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...
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 3:9 This third oracle of judgment adds priests to the previously addressed civil rulers (vv. Micah 3:1) and false prophets (vv....
CRITICAL NOTES.] MICAH 3:9. HEAR] Resumed from Micah 3:1. HEADS] Whose ungodly conduct is briefly summed up again. ABHOR] As a thing loathsome and abominable (Heb.) MICAH 3:10. BUILD] Lit. building w...
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...
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...
Deuteronomy 27:19; Exodus 3:16; Hosea 5:1; Isaiah 1:23; Jeremiah 5:28;...