Micah 3:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Micah 3:2

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

Hate

Love

Pluck

Zechariah 11:4

General references

Ezekiel 24:4

Bible References

Hate

And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, O my enemy? And he answered, I have found you because you have sold yourself to work evil in the sight of Jehovah.

And the king of Israel gathered the prophets, about four hundred men, and said to them, Shall I go against Ramoth in Gilead to battle, or shall I hold back? And they said, Go up! For Jehovah shall deliver it into the hand of the king.

They hate him who rebukes in the gate, and they despise him who speaks uprightly.

But his citizens hated him. And they sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this one to reign over us.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it, that its works are evil.

If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.

O stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so you do.

Let love be without hypocrisy, shrinking from evil, cleaving to good;

without natural affection, unyielding, false accusers, without self-control, savage, despisers of good,

Love

And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him. And he said to King Jehoshaphat, Should you help the ungodly and love those who hate Jehovah? And by this bring wrath on you from before Jehovah.

in whose eyes the reprobate is despised, but he honors those who fear Jehovah; he has sworn to his hurt, and does not change it;

O Jehovah, do I not hate those who hate You? And am I not grieved with those who rise up against You?

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law plead against them.

Then they all cried again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas! But Barabbas was a robber.

who, knowing the righteous order of God, that those practicing such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but have pleasure in those practicing them.

Pluck

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? They eat up my people as they eat bread; they have not called on God.

What do you mean? You crush My people and grind the faces of the poor? says the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts.

Her rulers in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood and to destroy souls, to get unjust gain.

You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool; you kill the fat ones, but you do not feed the flock.

Hear this, you who trample the poor, even to make the humble of the land to fail,

Her rulers within her are roaring lions; her judges evening wolves. They do not gnaw bones for the morning.

For so says Jehovah my God: Feed the flock of the slaughter,

General references

You shall not pervert the judgment of your poor in his cause.

If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and they have been judged, and the righteous one is declared righteous, and the wrongdoer declared guilty,

I will declare your righteousness, and your works; for they shall not do you any good.

You have multiplied your dead in this city, and you have filled its streets with the dead.

Gather its pieces into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder. Fill it with the choice bones.