Micah 3:2

These leaders hate good and love evil, savagely exploiting the people. It uses graphic imagery to portray their brutality.

Cross-references · 23

• Ezek 22:27Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
• Ps 53:4Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on God?
• Prov 28:4Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.
• 1 Kgs 21:20Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.
• 2 Chr 19:2Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? Because of this, wrath is on you from before Yahweh.
• 1 Kgs 22:6–8Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or should I refrain?” They said, “Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
• Rom 12:9Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
• Acts 7:51–52“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
• 2 Tim 3:3without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,
• Rom 1:32who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.
• Zech 11:4–5Yahweh my God says: “Feed the flock of slaughter.
• Amos 8:4–6Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
• John 15:23–24He who hates me, hates my Father also.
• Ps 15:4In whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change;
• Ezek 34:3You eat the fat, and you clothe yourself with the wool, you kill the fatlings; but you don’t feed the sheep.
• John 18:40Then they all shouted again, saying, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.
• John 15:18–19If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
• Amos 5:10–14They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
• Zeph 3:3Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.
• Ps 139:21–22Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
• Isa 3:15What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
• Luke 19:14But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’
• John 7:7The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

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