Cross references

Micah 3:9

Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob

and rulers of the house of Israel,

who despise justice

and pervert all that is right,

Micah 3:9 BSB

Micah 3:9 has 9 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Isaiah 1:23 (6 votes) and Psalm 58:1–2 (5 votes). 45 other verses point back to it. It links with 19 other books, from Exodus 3 to Romans 13.

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Which verses does Micah 3:9 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.

  2. For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David. Do you indeed speak justly, O rulers? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men? No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.

  3. Acquitting the guilty and condemning the righteous—both are detestable to the LORD.

  4. ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

  5. Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me and said: I have surely attended to you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.

  6. and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,

  7. They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.

  8. Hosea 5:12 votes

    “Hear this, O priests! Take heed, O house of Israel! Give ear, O royal house! For this judgment is against you because you have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor.

  9. Micah 3:12 votes

    Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?

Which verses point to Micah 3:9?

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