Micah 3:10
What meaning of the micah 3:10 in the Bible?
What does Micah 3:10 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"They build up Zion with blood,b and Jerusalem with iniquity."
What does Micah 3:10 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"They build up Zion with blood,b and Jerusalem with iniquity."
Verse Micah 3:10. _THEY BUILD UP ZION WITH BLOOD_] They might cry out loudly against that butchery practised by Pekah, king of Israel, and Pul coadjutor of Rezie, against the Jews. See on Micah 2:9. B...
THEY BUILD UP - (literally, building, sing.) Zion with blood This may be taken literally on both sides, that, the rich built their palaces, “with wealth gotten by bloodshed , by rapine of the poor, by...
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) Micah 3:1. T...
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...
INIQUITY. deceit. Hebrew. _'aval._ App-44. Not the same word as in Micah 2:1....
_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...
They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. THEY - change of person from "ye" (); the third person puts them to a greater distance, as estranged from him. It is literally 'Whosoever b...
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...
THEY BUILD UP ZION WITH BLOOD — _i.e._, they acquire money for the erection of splendid buildings by spoliation and robbery, not stopping short of murder. So also Habakkuk (Micah 2:12) denounces the k...
בֹּנֶ֥ה צִיֹּ֖ון בְּ דָמִ֑ים וִ ירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם בְּ עַוְלָֽה׃...
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 we...
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...
They build up Zion with (h) blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. (h) They will say that they are the people of God, and abuse his name, as a pretence to disguise their hypocrisy....
_Iniquity. You offer victims unjustly procured, or build your palaces with what belongs to the poor._...
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 wit...
Then when he says, that Zion _was built by blood, and Jerusalem by iniquity, _it is the same as though the Prophet had said, that whatever the great men expended on their palaces had been procured, an...
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...
THEY BUILD UP ZION WITH BLOOD, AND JERUSALEM WITH INIQUITY. Or, "O thou that buildest up" g, c. or "everyone of them that buildeth up" h, c. for the word is in the singular number but, be fire words r...
They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. Ver. 10. _They build up Zion with blood_] Heb. bloods, that is, with goods gotten by rapine and robbery, to the utter undoing of many poor...
_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...
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...
BLOOD: _ Heb._ bloods...
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 fil...
THEY; heads, princes, judges, and great ones among them. BUILD UP; enlarge or beautify, and fortify. ZION; the houses in Zion, or perhaps may be meant the temple and its buildings, and the royal palac...
Micah 3:10 up H1129 (H8802) Zion H6726 bloodshed H1818 Jerusalem H3389 iniquity H5766 build up Zion - Jeremiah 22:13-17; Ezekiel 22:25-28; Habakkuk 2:9-12; Zephaniah 3:3; Matthew 27:25;...
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 the...
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 this. .. ye heads of the house of Jacob. .. that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity _ RECTITUDE I. There is an eternal law of “right” that should govern man in all his relations. Right, as...
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.] 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 OF MESSIAH, AND THE HIGHEST EXALTATION OF THE PEOPLE. MI...
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 22:25; Habakkuk 2:9; Jeremiah 22:13; John 11:50; Matthew 27:25; Zephaniah 3:3...
They — The heads and great ones enlarge, beautify, and fortify, the house in Zion, particularly the temple and the royal palace. Blood — With wealth, which they made themselves masters of by violence,...