Micah 3:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

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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 to know the right. What is the standard of right? Not public sentiment, not human law, but the Divine will. God’s being is the foundation of right; God’s will is the standard of right; God’s Christ is the completest revelation of that standard.

II. What civil rulers often are. What were these rulers?

1. Morally corrupt.

2. Socially cruel.

3. Divinely abandoned.

The Monarch of the universe is no respecter of persons. (Homilist.)

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Micah 3:1-4

1 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?

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

3 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.

4 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.