Micah 3:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

And the priests

And the prophets

Jude 1:11

Yet

Romans 2:17

None evil can come

Amos 9:10

General references

Bible References

Heads

Both hands are good at accomplishing evil:
the official and the judge demand a bribe;
when the powerful man communicates his evil desire,
they plot it together.

Then Moses became angry and said to the Lord, “Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them or mistreated a single one of them.”

However, his sons did not walk in his ways—they turned toward dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

Here I am. Bring charges against me before the Lord and His anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Whom have I wronged or mistreated? From whose hand have I taken a bribe to overlook something?

I will return it to you.”

Your rulers are rebels,
friends of thieves.
They all love graft
and chase after bribes.
They do not defend the rights of the fatherless,
and the widow’s case never comes before them.

People who live in you accept bribes in order to shed blood. You take interest and profit on a loan and brutally extort your neighbors. You have forgotten Me.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

When their drinking is over,
they turn to promiscuity.
Israel’s leaders fervently love disgrace.

The princes within her are roaring lions;
her judges are wolves of the night,
which leave nothing for the morning.

And the priests

For from the least to the greatest of them,
everyone is making profit dishonestly.
From prophet to priest,
everyone deals falsely.

Therefore, I will give their wives to other men,
their fields to new occupants,
for from the least to the greatest,
everyone is making profit dishonestly.
From prophet to priest,
everyone deals falsely.

“I wish one of you would shut the temple doors, so you would no longer kindle a useless fire on My altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.

not addicted to wine, not a bully but gentle, not quarrelsome, not greedy—

It is necessary to silence them; they overthrow whole households by teaching what they shouldn’t in order to get money dishonestly.

Shepherd God’s flock among you, not overseeing out of compulsion but freely, according to God’s will; not for the money but eagerly;

And the prophets

This is what the Lord says
concerning the prophets
who lead my people astray,
who proclaim peace
when they have food to sink their teeth into
but declare war against the one
who puts nothing in their mouths.

These dogs have fierce appetites;
they never have enough.
And they are shepherds
who have no discernment;
all of them turn to their own way,
every last one for his own gain.

When Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money,

But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, and will bring swift destruction on themselves.

Woe to them! For they have traveled in the way of Cain, have abandoned themselves to the error of Balaam for profit, and have perished in Korah’s rebellion.

Yet

When the troops returned to the camp, the elders of Israel asked, “Why did the Lord let us be defeated today by the Philistines? Let’s bring the ark of the Lord’s covenant from Shiloh. Then it will go with us and save us from the hand of our enemies.”

For they are named after the Holy City,
and lean on the God of Israel;
His name is Yahweh of Hosts.

Do not trust deceitful words, chanting: This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.

And don’t presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rest in the law, boast in God,

None evil can come

All the sinners among My people
who say: “Disaster will never overtake
or confront us,”
will die by the sword.

General references

“When a man or woman has an infection on the head or chin,

‘The one who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person is cursed.’
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

“May you be blessed by the Lord,” replied Saul, “for you have taken pity on me.

Justice is turned back,
and righteousness stands far off.
For truth has stumbled in the public square,
and honesty cannot enter.

The Lord said to me, “A conspiracy has been discovered among the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.

The priests, the prophets, and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the temple of the Lord.

They must teach My people the difference between the holy and the common, and explain to them the difference between the clean and the unclean.

Israel cries out to Me,
“My God, we know You!”