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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 thei...
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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
Sh...
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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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THE UNJUST RULERS AND FALSE PROPHETS OF JUDAH. Micah first addresses
those whose official duty it is to know justice, _i.e._
sympathetically, and declares that in fact they love its opposite, and
crue...
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HEAR. This is no indication of Structure. It is. continuation of the
threatening against the rulers (Micah 3:1, p. 1253, corresponding with
"-3", Micah 3:9, below).
PRINCES. judges....
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_THE SINS OF THE PRINCES -- MICAH 3:1-4:_ In a simple, but very sad
statement God said, "They love evil and hate good."_ _ Micah
encouraged the leaders to listen to God. The princes were unjust and
go...
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CHAPTER VIII
THIRD CYCLE
OUTRAGES OF CIVIL OFFICIALS. Micah 3:1-4
RV. And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and rulers of the
house of Israel: is it not for you to know justice? ye who ha...
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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 judgment?
The Second Division (Micah 3:1; Micah 4:1; Micah 5:1) begins with the
same...
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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 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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The rulers of *Israel had not brought the people together. (They were
like *shepherds that had not gathered their sheep together.) The
rulers had caused the people to scatter in many directions. They...
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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...
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וָ אֹמַ֗ר שִׁמְעוּ ־נָא֙ רָאשֵׁ֣י
יַעֲקֹ֔ב וּ
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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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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
prop...
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_I. Hebrew and Septuagint, "He, the Lord, said;" or, Micheas addressed
the princes of both kingdoms, under Ezechias, ver. 12., and Jeremias
xxvi. 18. --- To know and practice, Osee vi. 3. (Calmet) ---...
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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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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 begin...
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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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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 precedin...
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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 judgment?
Ver. 1. _And I said_] viz. At another time, and in a new discourse;
the he...
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_Hear, O heads of Jacob_, &c. That the justice of God, in bringing
upon them the punishments which he had threatened, might more
evidently appear, the prophet here shows that there was no rank of
them...
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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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And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, the leading men of the
nation, AND YE PRINCES OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, in whose hands was the
administration of justice:. IS IT NOT FOR YOU TO KNOW JUDGM...
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1-8 Men cannot expect to do ill, and fare well; but to find that done
to them which they did to others. How seldom do wholesome truths reach
the ears of those in high stations or in authority! Those...
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MICAH CHAPTER 3 Micah reproveth the cruelty of the princes, MICAH 3:1,
and the falsehood of the prophets, MICAH 3:5. His zeal in showing the
sins of the princes, priests, and prophets, and their illgr...
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Micah 3:1 said H559 (H8799) Hear H8085 (H8798) heads H7218 Jacob H3290
rulers H7101 house H1004 Israel...
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MICAH'S INDICTMENT OF JUDAH (MICAH 3:1).
Micah inveighs first against the leadership of Judah, and then against
the prophets who make people err for the sake of money, and the
priests who teach for hi...
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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, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of
Israel _
CIVIL RULERS
I. What civil rulers ought always to be. They ought always to “know
judgment,” that is, always practically t...
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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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CRITICAL NOTES.] Punishment is threatened against the heads and
leaders of Israel.
MICAH 3:1. PRINCES] Administrators of justice. YOU] Above every one.
TO KNOW] To regard justice (Isaiah 42:25).
Mica...
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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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1 Corinthians 6:5; 2 Chronicles 19:5; Amos 4:1; Deuteronomy 1:13;...
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Is it not for you — Ought not you to understand, and conform to, the
just laws of your God. You princes, magistrates, and ruling officers,
ought of all men to know and do right....