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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....
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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...
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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)...
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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...
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INIQUITY. deceit. Hebrew. _'aval._ App-44. Not the same word as in
Micah 2:1....
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Micah calls together the wicked leaders and rulers. ‘Leaders’
means all types of leaders in *Israel. Isaiah gives examples of what
kinds of people these might be (Isaiah 3:2-3). They include strong me...
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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...
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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...
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בֹּנֶ֥ה צִיֹּ֖ון בְּ דָמִ֑ים וִ
ירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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_Iniquity. You offer victims unjustly procured, or build your palaces
with what belongs to the poor._...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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They build up Zion with blood, with blood-guiltiness, AND JERUSALEM
WITH INIQUITY, caring only for gain and bloodshed in building their
stately mansions, their wealth being obtained by the condemnatio...
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BLOOD:
_ Heb._ bloods...
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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 fi...
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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...
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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 them...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 3:9 This third oracle of judgment adds priests
to the previously addressed civil rulers (vv. Micah 3:1) and false
prophets (vv....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Ezekiel 22:25; Habakkuk 2:9; Jeremiah 22:13; John 11:50; Mat
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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,...