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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Micah 3

Chapter 3

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?

Cir

A.M. 3294. B.C. 710. Hear.

9,10 Isaiah 1:10 Jeremiah 13:15-18 22:2,3 Hosea 5:1 Amos 4:1

Is it

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

Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

hate

1 Kings 21:20 22:6-8 Amos 5:10-14 Luke 19:14 John 7:7 15:18,19,23,24 Acts 7:51,52 Romans 12:9 2 Timothy 3:3

love

2 Chronicles 19:2 Psalms 15:4 139:21,22 Proverbs 28:4 John 18:40 Romans 1:32

pluck

Psalms 53:4 Isaiah 3:15 Ezekiel 22:27 34:3 Amos 8:4-6 Zephaniah 3:3 Zechariah 11:4,5

Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

eat

Psalms 14:4

and chop

Ezekiel 11:3,6,7

Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

Then

2:3,4 Jeremiah 5:31

cry

Psalms 18:41 Proverbs 1:28 28:9 Isaiah 1:15 Jeremiah 2:27,28 Ezekiel 8:18 Zechariah 7:13 Matthew 7:22 Luke 13:25 John 9:31 James 2:13

he will even

Deuteronomy 31:17,18 32:19,20 Isaiah 59:1-15 Jeremiah 33:5

as

Isaiah 3:11 Romans 2:8,9

Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

concerning

11 Isaiah 9:15,16 Jeremiah 14:14,15 23:9-17,27,32 28:15-17 29:21-23 Ezekiel 13:10-16 22:25-29 Malachi 2:8 Matthew 15:14

that bite

2:11 Isaiah 56:9-12 Ezekiel 13:18,19 Matthew 7:15 Romans 16:18

Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

night

Psalms 74:9 Isaiah 8:20-22 Jeremiah 13:16 Ezekiel 13:22,23 Zechariah 13:2-4

that ye shall not have a vision

Heb. from a vision. that ye shall not divine. Heb. from divining. the sun.

Isaiah 29:10 59:10 Jeremiah 15:9 Amos 8:9,10

Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.

the seers

Exodus 8:18,19 9:11 1 Samuel 9:9 Isaiah 44:25 47:12-14 Daniel 2:9-11 Zechariah 13:4 2 Timothy 3:8,9

cover

Leviticus 13:45 Ezekiel 24:17,22

lips

Heb. upper lip. no.

1 Samuel 14:37 28:6,15 Psalms 74:9 Amos 8:11

But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

I am

Job 32:18 Isaiah 11:2,3 58:1 Jeremiah 1:18 6:11 15:19-21 20:9 Ezekiel 3:14 Matthew 7:29 Mark 3:17 Acts 4:8-12,19,20 7:54-57 13:9-12 18:5,6,9-11 1 Corinthians 2:4,12,13

to declare

Isaiah 58:1 Ezekiel 16:2 20:4 22:2 43:10 Matthew 3:7-12 Acts 7:51,52

Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

I pray

1 Exodus 3:16 Hosea 5:1

that

Leviticus 26:15 Deuteronomy 27:19 Psalms 58:1,2 Proverbs 17:15 Isaiah 1:23 Jeremiah 5:28

They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

build up Zion

Jeremiah 22:13-17 Ezekiel 22:25-28 Habakkuk 2:9-12 Zephaniah 3:3 Matthew 27:25 John 11:50

blood

Heb. bloods.

The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.

heads

7:3 Numbers 16:15 1 Samuel 8:3 12:3,4 Isaiah 1:23 Ezekiel 22:12,27 Hosea 4:18 Zephaniah 3:3

and the priests

Jeremiah 6:13 8:10 Malachi 1:10 1 Timothy 3:3 Titus 1:11 1 Peter 5:2

and the prophets

5 Isaiah 56:11 Acts 8:18-20 2 Peter 2:1-3,14,15 Jude 1:11

yet

1 Samuel 4:3-6 Isaiah 48:2 Jeremiah 7:4,8-12 Matthew 3:9 Romans 2:17-29

and say

Heb. saying. none evil can come.

Amos 9:10

Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

Zion

1:6 Psalms 79:1 107:34 Jeremiah 26:18 Matthew 24:2 Acts 6:13,14

the mountain

4:1,2 Isaiah 2:2,3