Micah 7:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

Do

Proverbs 4:16

Jeremiah 3:5

Ezekiel 22:6

The prince

Matthew 26:15

The great

1 Kings 21:9

Wrap

Isaiah 26:21

Luke 12:1

1 Corinthians 4:5

General references

Bible References

Do

For they slept not, if they shall not do evil; and their sleep was taken away, if they shall not cause to falter.

Will he guard forever? if he will watch to the end? Behold, I spake, and wilt thou do evil, and shalt thou be able?

Behold, the princes of Israel they were a man to his arm to pour out;blood in thee.

The prince

Her heads will judge for a gift, and her priests will teach for hire, and her prophets will divine for silver: and they will lean upon Jehovah, saying, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? he will not bring evil upon us.

Thy chiefs turning away, and associates of thieves: every one loving a gift and following recompenses: the orphan they will not judge, and the cause of the widow will not come to them.

For this I will give their wives to others; their fields to those inheriting them: for from small and even to great all plundering a plunder, from the prophet and even to the priest, all did falsehood.

Her chiefs in her midst as wolves rending the prey, to pour out blood, to destroy souls, for the sake of plundering plunder.

Their drinking bout departed: committing fornication, they committed fornication: they loved, give ye shame upon her shields.

For I knew your many transgressions, and your strong sins: pressing upon the just, taking a ransom, and they turned away the needy in the gate

Said, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him to you? and they placed to him thirty silver coins.

The great

And she will write in the letters, Saying, Call a fast; set Naboth in the head of the people:

Wrap

For behold, Jehovah will come forth out of his place to review the iniquity of him dwelling in the earth upon him; and the earth uncovered her bloods, and she will no more cover over her slain.

Upon which, myriads of the crowd having been gathered together, so as to tread upon one another, he began to speak to his disciples first, Keep yourselves from the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Therefore judge ye nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who also, will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of hearts: and then shall praise be to each from God.

General references

Thou shalt not steal.

And when ye shall sell a selling to thy neighbor, or buying of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not oppress each his brother.

Cursed he taking a gift to strike the soul of innocent blood: and all the people said, Amen.

The unjust one will take a gift from the bosom to turn, aside the paths of judgment

For their heart will meditate destruction, and their lips will speak labor.

And yet I saw under the sun the place of judgment, there the unjust one; and the place of the just one, there the unjust one.

And judgment was turned away behind, and justice shall stand from far off: for truth fainted in the street, and right will not be able to come in.

And Jehovah will say to me, A conspiracy was found in the men of Judah, and in the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

By their evil they will gladden the king, and the chiefs by their falsehoods.

Wherefore wilt thou cause me to see vanity and cause me to look at labor? and oppression and violence before me, and there will be contention, and strife will be raised up.

Who having come to the chief priests and elders, said, By an anathema, we anathematized ourselves, to taste of nothing till we kill Paul.

And the Jews also agreed, saying, these things hold so.