Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Micah 3:1
Is it not for you — Ought not you to understand, and conform to, the just laws of your God. You princes, magistrates, and ruling officers, ought of all men to know and do right.
Is it not for you — Ought not you to understand, and conform to, the just laws of your God. You princes, magistrates, and ruling officers, ought of all men to know and do right.
CHAPTER III _In this chapter the prophet inveighs with great boldness and_ _spirit against the princes and prophets of Judah; and foretells_ _the destruction of Jerusalem as the consequence of thei...
AND I SAID - God’s love for us is the great incitement, constrainer, vivifier of His creature’s love. Micah had just spoken of God’s love of Israel; how He would gather them into one fold under One Sh...
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)...
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...
HEAR. This is no indication of Structure. It is. continuation of the threatening against the rulers (Micah 3:1, p. 1253, corresponding with "-3", Micah 3:9, below). PRINCES. judges....
_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...
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...
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? The Second Division (Micah 3:1; Micah 4:1; Micah 5:1) begins with the same...
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...
The rulers of *Israel had not brought the people together. (They were like *shepherds that had not gathered their sheep together.) The rulers had caused the people to scatter in many directions. They...
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...
III. (1) HEAR, I PRAY YOU. — In the second division of his prophecy Micah protests against the evil influences exercised upon the people in high places. The princes, the prophets, and the priests, to...
וָ אֹמַ֗ר שִׁמְעוּ ־נָא֙ רָאשֵׁ֣י יַעֲקֹ֔ב וּ
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...
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 (a) judgment? (a) That thing which is just and lawful, both to govern my people prop...
_I. Hebrew and Septuagint, "He, the Lord, said;" or, Micheas addressed the princes of both kingdoms, under Ezechias, ver. 12., and Jeremias xxvi. 18. --- To know and practice, Osee vi. 3. (Calmet) ---...
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...
CONTENTS This Chapter is much in the strain of the general tenor of the Prophets, full of reproof mingled with gracious promises. Through the whole of the Chapter we find much of the love of God, eve...
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 in this chapter assails and severely reproves the chief men as well as the teachers; for both were given to avarice and cruelty, to plunder, and, in short, to all other vices. And he begin...
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...
AND I SAID, HEAR, I PRAY YOU, O HEADS OF JACOB, AND YE PRINCES OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL,.... This seems to be a new sermon or discourse, delivered at another time and to another people than the precedin...
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? Ver. 1. _And I said_] viz. At another time, and in a new discourse; the he...
_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...
And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, the leading men of the nation, AND YE PRINCES OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, in whose hands was the administration of justice:. IS IT NOT FOR YOU TO KNOW JUDGM...
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...
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...
MICAH CHAPTER 3 Micah reproveth the cruelty of the princes, MICAH 3:1, and the falsehood of the prophets, MICAH 3:5. His zeal in showing the sins of the princes, priests, and prophets, and their illgr...
Micah 3:1 said H559 (H8799) Hear H8085 (H8798) heads H7218 Jacob H3290 rulers H7101 house H1004 Israel...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
1 Corinthians 6:5; 2 Chronicles 19:5; Amos 4:1; Deuteronomy 1:13;...