micah-3:1-3,-micah-3:9-12

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Micah 3:2-3

Yet these rulers had stood justice on its head. They hated good and loved evil (cf. Proverbs 8:13; Isaiah 1:16-17; Amos 5:15). Tearing the flesh off the people, eating their flesh, and cooking their bones all represent abuse of their victims for their own selfish ends. The figure is of a hunter, and the implication is that the rulers regarded and treated the ordinary citizens as mere animals rather than as human beings. The rich stripped the poor of their money and property and oppressed them... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 3:1-12

Wickedness in High PlacesMicah 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 3:1-3). Their time shall be short (Micah 3:4). The prophets have abused their trust in order, by flattery of the rich, to make a good living for themselves. To them Micah prophesies judicial darkness (Micah 3:5-7). He declares his own ideal of the prophetic office (Micah 3:8). Finally, he accuses all the leaders of the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Micah 3:1

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 whom their interests were confided, were guilty of wrong, oppression, and robbery.Ye princes.—Rather, judges, magistrates; but a different word is used from that which was given to the chiefs in the old days “when the judges ruled.” read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Micah 3:2-3

(2, 3) 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 compares it to the process of preparing food, in which every part of the animal, even to the bones, is utilised. So the judges robbed the people until there was nothing left to them. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Micah 3:1-12

THE PROPHET OF THE POORMicah 2:1-13; Micah 3:1-12WE 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 Jerusalem. Now in his treatment of the sins which give that danger its fatal significance, he is inspired by the same partiality for the fields and the folk about him. While Isaiah chiefly satirizes the fashions of the town and the intrigues of the court, Micah scourges the avarice of the... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Micah 3:1-12

THE SECOND PROPHETIC MESSAGE CHAPTER 3 1. Address to the godless princes and judges (Micah 3:1-4 ) 2. Address to the false prophets (Micah 3:5-8 ) 3. The verdict of judgment (Micah 3:9-12 ) Micah 3:1-4 . The second prophetic message of Micah contains the great Messianic prophecies. But first the prophet gives a description of the degradation of the nation, the moral corruption of the leaders and judges, as well as the false prophets. It is all summed up in one sentence, “who hate the... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Micah 3:1

3:1 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 properly, and also to clear your own conscience. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Micah 3:2

3:2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; {b} who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;(b) The Prophet condemns the wicked governors not only of covetousness, theft, and murder, but compares them to wolves, lions, and most cruel beasts. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Micah 3:1-12

MICAH INTRODUCTION The little known of Micah is briefly stated. Calling himself a Morasthite indicates Moresheth, or Mareshah, as his birthplace in southwestern Judah, near Gath. The time of his prophesying is shown in the same verse (by the reference to the kings of Judah) as between 758-700 B.C. He seems to be the writer of his own book, if we may judge from the personal allusions in chapter 3:1, 8, and to have died in peace, judging by Jeremiah 26:18-19 . He is frequently referred to as a... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Micah 3:1-12

Divine Accusations Micah 2:0 , Micah 3:0 "O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the Lord straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?" ( Mic 2:7 ). This is a yearning expostulation. The Lord is disappointed; his heart is heavy and sore; the prophecy is not according to his own spirit and purpose, and all things are enfeebled, and he himself is humiliated in the presence of the people and of the nations. We should bethink... read more