Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Micah 3:3
The flesh — Ye who devour the goods, and livelihood of your brethren. Break their bones — An allusion to wolves, bears, or lions, which devour the flesh, and break the bones of the defenceless lambs.
The flesh — Ye who devour the goods, and livelihood of your brethren. Break their bones — An allusion to wolves, bears, or lions, which devour the flesh, and break the bones of the defenceless lambs.
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...
CHOP THEM IN PIECES, AS FOR THE POT. spread them out, as flesh for the pot....
_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...
AND FLAY THEIR SKIN FROM OFF THEM— _Who, when ye have flayed the skin from off them, and broken their bones, then throw their flesh as into a pot,_ or _cauldron._ These are hyperbolical expressions, t...
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...
Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. AND THEY BREAK THEIR BO...
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...
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...
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...
וַ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אָכְלוּ֮ שְׁאֵ֣ר עַמִּי֒ וְ עֹורָם
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...
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...
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...
_They devour_, he says, _the flesh of my people, and their skin they strip off from them, and their bones they break in pieces and make small, as that which into the pot is thrown, and which is in the...
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...
WHO ALSO EAT THE FLESH OF MY PEOPLE, AND FLAY THEIR SKINS FROM OFF THEM,.... Like cannibals, flay them alive, and then eat their flesh: this signifies, as before, devouring their substance, only expre...
Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. Ver. 3. _Who also eat the...
_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...
who also eat the flesh of My people, the address here turning to the third person, since the princes, as it were, turned away from the message intended to call them to repentance, AND FLAY THEIR SKIN...
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...
EAT; maintain themselves and their followers, nay, live in luxury and excess, revelling in banquets and feasts, as the word is many times used, AMOS 6:4. THE FLESH; the estates, goods, and livelihood...
Micah 3:3 eat H398 (H8804) flesh H7607 people H5971 Flay H6584 (H8689) skin H5785 Break H6476 ...
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...
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
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...
Ezekiel 11:3; Ezekiel 11:6; Ezekiel 11:7; Psalms 14:4...