21 Moreover you shall select from all the people (A)able men, such as (B)fear God, (C)men of truth, (D)hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Read full chapter

25 And (A)Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people: rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Read full chapter

I will go to the great men and speak to them,
For (A)they have known the way of the Lord,
The judgment of their God.”

But these have altogether (B)broken the yoke
And burst the bonds.

Read full chapter

Wicked Rulers and Prophets

And I said:

“Hear now, O heads of Jacob,
And you (A)rulers of the house of Israel:
(B)Is it not for you to know justice?

Read full chapter

Now hear this,
You heads of the house of Jacob
And rulers of the house of Israel,
Who abhor justice
And [a]pervert all equity,

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Micah 3:9 Lit. twist

The Coming Messiah

“But you, (A)Bethlehem (B)Ephrathah,
Though you are little (C)among the (D)thousands of Judah,
Yet out of you shall come forth to Me
The One to be (E)Ruler in Israel,
(F)Whose goings forth are from of old,
From [a]everlasting.”

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Micah 5:2 Lit. the days of eternity

Bible Gateway Recommends