“ They build up Zion with blood,b and Jerusalem with iniquity. ”
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 poo...
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.
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...
iniquity . deceit. Hebrew. 'aval. App-44. Not the same word as in Micah 2:1 .
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 proc...
They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. They build up Zion with blood - They might cry out loudly against that butchery practiced by Pekah, king of Israel, and Pul coadjutor of Re...
They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. They - change of person from "ye" ( Micah 3:9 ); the third person puts them to a greater distance, as estranged from him. It is lite...
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 3:1-3 ). Their...
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 PROPHET OF THE POOR Micah 2:1-13 ; Micah 3:1-12 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 hi...
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 th...
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 tr...
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...
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 word...
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 poo...
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 judgme...
The Crimes of the Princes and Prophets. B. C. 726. 8 But truly I am full of power by t...
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 roya...
He Summarises The Situation In The Land And Declares What will Come Upon Them As A Result ( Micah 3:9-12 ). Micah now advises the corrupt leaders of their sins and of what is coming on them becaus...
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 . Bui...
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 ho...
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,...
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 OF MESSIAH...
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 oppressi...
Ezekiel 22:25-28 ; Habakkuk 2:9-12 ; Jeremiah 22:13-17 ; John 11:50 ; Matthew 27:25 ; Zephaniah 3:3
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 violen...