Micah 3:2

Micah 3:2 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
• New International Version (NIV)you who hate good and love evil; who tear the skin from my people and the flesh from their bones;
• English Standard Version (ESV)you who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin from off my people and their flesh from off their bones,
• New King James Version (NKJV)You who hate good and love evil; Who strip the skin from My people, And the flesh from their bones;

Context of Micah 3:2

1And 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? Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; 3Who 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. 4Then shall they cry unto Yhwh, 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.

Micah 3:2 word by word

שֹׂ֥נְאֵי ט֖וֹב וְאֹ֣הֲבֵי רָ֑ע גֹּזְלֵ֤י עוֹרָם֙ מֵֽעֲלֵיהֶ֔ם וּשְׁאֵרָ֖ם מֵעַ֥ל עַצְמוֹתָֽם׃Read the interlinear

• Who hateשָׂנֵאώânê' · to hateH8130
• the goodטוֹבţôb · goodH2896
• and loveאָהֵב'âhab 'âhêb · to love: loverH157
• the evilרַעra‛ râ‛âh · bad: evilH7451
• who pluck offגָּזַלgâzal · to plunderH1497
• their skinעוֹר‛ôr · skinH5785
• from off them, and their fleshשְׁאֵרshe'êr · fleshH7607
• from off their bonesעֶ֫צֶם‛etsem · boneH6106

Cross-references for Micah 3:2

• 1 Kings 21:20And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of Yhwh.
• 1 Kings 22:6Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramoth–gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
• Amos 5:10They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
• Luke 19:14But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
• John 7:7The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
• John 15:18If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
• Acts 7:51Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
• Romans 12:9Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
• 2 Timothy 3:3Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
• 2 Chronicles 19:2And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate Yhwh? therefore is wrath upon thee from before Yhwh.
• Psalms 15:4In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear Yhwh. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
• Psalms 139:21Do not I hate them, O Yhwh, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
• Proverbs 28:4They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
• John 18:40Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.
• Romans 1:32Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
• Psalms 53:4Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

Commentaries on Micah 3:2

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2Who hate the good and love the evil - that is, they hate, for its own sake, that which is good, and love that which is evil. The prophet is not here speaking of their “hating good” men, or “loving evil” men, but of their hating goodness and loving wickedness.: “It is sin not to love good; what guilt to hate it! it is faulty, not to flee from evil, what ungodliness to love it!” Man, at first, loves and admires the good, even while he cloth it not; he hates…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2-3The leaders acted like wild animals. They harmed their own people and treated them without mercy.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. pluck off their skin ... flesh--rob their fellow countrymen of all their substance (Psa 14:4; Pr 30:14).Read the comment

Topics related to Micah 3:2

• Church
• Extortion
• Government
• Rulers
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Divine
• Pluck
• Teach
• Bone; Bones
• Flesh
• Micah (2)
• Text of the Old Testament

Commentaries on Micah 3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings