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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Micah 3:1-7

Princes and prophets, when they faithfully discharge the duty of their office, are to be highly honoured above other men; but when they betray their trust, and act contrary to it, they should hear of their faults as well as others, and shall be made to know that there is a God above them, to whom they are accountable; at his bar the prophet here, in his name, arraigns them. I. Let the princes hear their charge and their doom. The heads of Jacob, and the princes of the house of Israel, are... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 3:1

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... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 3:2

Who hate the good, and love the evil ,.... Instead of knowing and doing what was just and right; or, directly contrary to their light and knowledge, and the duty of their office, they hated that which is good, which is agreeable to the law, nature, and will of God, and loved that which is evil, which is contrary thereunto; or they hated to do good, and loved to do evil, as the Targum; as men do who are averse to good, and prone to evil; or they hated a good man, as Aben Ezra, and loved the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 3:3

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 expressed in terms which still more set forth their savageness, inhumanity, barbarity, and cruelty. So the Targum, "who spoil the substance of my people, and their precious mammon they take from them;' and what aggravated their guilt was, that they were the Lord's people by profession and... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 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... read more

John Calvin

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

Verse 1 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 begins with the magistrates, who exercised authority among the people; and briefly relates the words in which he inveighed against them. We have said elsewhere, that the Prophets did not record all that they had spoken, but only touched shortly on the heads or chief points: and this was done by... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 3:2

Verse 2 He afterwards subjoins, But they hate good, and love evil, and pull off the skin (94) from my people, the flesh from their bones; that is, they leave nothing, he says, sound and safe, their rapacity being so furious. The Prophet conveys first a general reproof, — that they not only perverted justice, but were also given to wickedness and hated good. He means then that they were openly wicked and ungodly, and also that they with a fixed purpose carried on war against every thing just and... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 3:3

Verse 3 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 midst of the caldron (95) For when any one throws meat into the pot, he does not take the whole ox, but cuts it into pieces, and having broken it, he then fills with these pieces his pot or his caldron. The Prophet then enhances the cruelty of the princes; they were not content with one kind... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 3:1

The prophet denounces the sins of the rulers, false prophets, and priests; and begins with the injustice and oppression practised by the great men. And I said. The new address is thus introduced as being analogous to the denunciations in the preceding chapter, which were interrupted by the promise of deliverance, to which there is no reference here. O heads of Jacob; synonymous with princes of the house of Israel (comp. Micah 3:8 ; Micah 1:5 ). Micah addresses the heads of families and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 3:1-4

§ 1. Sins of the rulers, and their punishment. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Micah 3:1-7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 3:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 3:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 3:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 3:1

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

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 3:2

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 3:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 3:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 3:1-4

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