Charles Ellicott Commentary


Charles Ellicott Commentary
"ye who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron." — Micah 3:2-3 (ASV)
Who hate the good. —The judges, instead of fulfilling the obligations of their office, by which they should be for the people to God-ward, perpetrated the most flagrant cruelty upon them. Micah compares it to the process of preparing food, in which every part of the animal, even to the bones, is utilised. So the judges robbed the people until there was nothing left to them.