Mihej 3:1

Croatian Bible

Potom rekoh: "Čujte sada, glavari kuće Jakovljeve, suci doma Izraelova! Nije li na vama da znate što je pravo? Ali vi mrzite dobro, a ljubite zlo!

Bible Verse Review
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Hear: Micah 3:9, Micah 3:10, Isaiah 1:10, Jeremiah 13:15-18, Jeremiah 22:2, Jeremiah 22:3, Hosea 5:1, Amos 4:1

Is it: Deuteronomy 1:13-17, Deuteronomy 16:18, 2 Chronicles 19:5-10, Psalms 14:4, Psalms 82:1-5, Jeremiah 5:4, Jeremiah 5:5, 1 Corinthians 6:5

Reciprocal: Exodus 23:6 - General Deuteronomy 1:17 - ye shall hear Deuteronomy 25:1 - General 1 Kings 21:19 - Hast thou killed 2 Chronicles 36:14 - all the chief Nehemiah 13:17 - I contended Psalms 58:2 - in heart Psalms 82:2 - judge Psalms 82:5 - know not Psalms 101:8 - early Proverbs 29:7 - but Proverbs 30:14 - to devour Ecclesiastes 5:8 - regardeth Isaiah 1:23 - princes Isaiah 3:5 - the people Isaiah 10:1 - them Isaiah 29:10 - rulers Isaiah 32:6 - empty Isaiah 59:6 - their works Jeremiah 6:7 - violence Jeremiah 7:2 - Hear Jeremiah 17:20 - General Jeremiah 21:11 - General Jeremiah 32:32 - they Jeremiah 38:4 - the princes Ezekiel 9:9 - perverseness Ezekiel 22:6 - the princes Ezekiel 34:2 - Woe Ezekiel 34:3 - ye kill Ezekiel 45:8 - and my princes Ezekiel 46:18 - thrust Hosea 12:7 - he loveth Joel 1:2 - Hear Amos 3:1 - Hear Amos 5:11 - treading Micah 6:12 - the rich Habakkuk 1:4 - for Zephaniah 3:3 - princes Zechariah 7:10 - oppress Zechariah 11:5 - possessors Mark 12:40 - devour Luke 13:32 - that fox Luke 18:2 - which Romans 13:4 - he is

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 preceding for, as that chiefly concerns the ten tribes, this the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and was spoken to them in the times of Hezekiah, as appears from Jeremiah 26:18; for though Jacob and Israel generally design the ten tribes, yet here the other two, as is manifest from the above cited place, and also from Micah 3:9; and not only heads of families, but such as were the highest posts under the government, the sanhedrim of the nation, judges, rulers, and nobles, are here addressed; and who had a great share in national guilt, being ringleaders in sin, who ought to have set good examples to others; and these are not to be spared because of their grandeur and dignity, but to faithfully reproved for their vices, and which they should diligently attend unto; though they are to be addressed in a respectful and honourable manner, and be entreated to hearken to the word of the Lord by his prophet; all which was carefully observed by Micah; and it was with pleasure he could reflect upon his plain, faithful, and affectionate reproof of those great men:

[is it] not for you to know judgment? what is just and right to be done by men, and what sentence is to be passed in courts of judicature, in cases brought before them and not only to know, in a speculative way, what is equitable, but to practise it themselves, and see that it is done by others; and when they duly considered this, they would be able to see and own that what the prophet from the Lord would now charge them with, or denounce upon them, was according to truth and justice.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 Shepherd, guard them, lead them, remove all difficulties before them, be Himself their Head and enable them to follow Him. He turns then to them. These are God’s doings; this, God has in store for you hereafter. Even when mercy itself shall require chastisement, He doth not cast off forever. The desolation is but the forerunner of future mercy. What then do ye? The prophet appeals to them, class by class. There was one general corruption of every order of men, through whom Judah could be preserved, princes Micah 3:1-4, prophets Micah 3:5-7, priests Micah 3:11. The salt had lost its savor; wherewith could it be seasoned? whereby could the decaying mass of the people be kept from entire corruption?

Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel - He arraigns them by the same name, under which He had first promised mercy. He had first promised mercy to all Jacob and the remnant of Israel. So now he upraids the “heads of Jacob, and the princes of the house of Israel,” lest they should deceive themselves. At the same time he recalls them to the deeds of their father. Judah had succeeded to the birthright, forfeited by Reuben, Simeon and Levi; and in Judah all the promises of the Messiah were laid up. But he was not like the three great patriarchs, the father of the faithful (Abraham), or the meek Isaac, or the much-tried Jacob. The name then had not the reminiscences, or force of appeal, contained in the titles, seed of Abraham, or Isaac, or Israel.

Is it not for you to know judgment? - It is a great increase of guilt, when persons neglect or pervert what it is their special duty and office to guard; as when teachers corrupt doctrine, or preachers give in to a low standard of morals, or judges pervert judgment. The “princes” here spoken or are so named from judging, “deciding” causes. They are the same its the “rulers,” whom Isaiah at the same time upbraids, as being, from their sins, rulers of Sodom , whose hands were full of blood Isaiah 1:15. They who do not right, in time cease, in great measure, to know it. As God withdraws His grace, the mind is darkened and can no longer see it. So it is said of Eli’s sons, they were sons of Belial, they knew not the Lord 1 Samuel 2:12; and, Into a malicious soul Wisdom shall not enter, nor dwell in a body that is subject unto sin (Wisd. 1:4). Such , “attain not to know the judgments of God which are a great deep: and the depth of His justice the evil mind findeth not.” But if men will not “know judgment” by doing it, they shall by suffering it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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 their

iniquity, 1-12.

The last verse was fulfilled to a certain extent by

Nebuchadnezzar; but most fully and literally by the Romans

under Titus. See Josephus.

NOTES ON CHAP. III

Verse Micah 3:1. Hear - O heads of Jacob — The metaphor of the flock is still carried on. The chiefs of Jacob, and the princes of Israel, instead of taking care of the flocks, defending them, and finding them pasture, oppressed them in various ways. They are like wolves, who tear the skin of the sheep, and the flesh off their bones. This applies to all unjust and oppressive rulers.

Suetonius tells us, in his Life of Tiberius, that when the governors of provinces wrote to the emperor, entreating him to increase the tributes, he wrote back: "It is the property of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them." Praesidibus onerandas tributo provincias suadentibus rescripsit: BONI PASTORIS esse TONDERE pecus, non DEGLUBERE. This is a maxim which many rulers of the earth do not seem to understand.