And I said: Hear, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know justice?—
The Prophet in this chapter assails and severely reproves the chief men as well as the teachers; for both were given to avarice and cruelty, to plunder, and, in short, to all other vices. And he begins with the magistrates, who exercised authority among the people; and briefly relates the words in which he inveighed against them.
The word of God reproves even the greatest men, and ministers must apply those reproofs faithfully. Princes are called to know and do justice impartially; their sin is the more provoking because they transgress against knowledge, with means and excuse that others lack.
AI summary
Commenting on Micah 3:1-7
And I said, hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel,.... This seems to be a new sermon or discourse, delivered at another time and to another people than the preceding for, as that chiefly concerns the ten tribes, this the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and was spoken to them in the times of Hezekiah...