Verse Lens · Context pointer
Micah 3:2 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 2. 2Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
King James Version — public domain in the United States · Bible text and permissions
Role in This Section
This verse begins the anti-shepherd metaphor by describing leaders who hate good, love evil, and strip skin and flesh.
Read It With
- Micah 3:1-4
Read Micah 3:2 with 3:1-4. This verse begins the anti-shepherd metaphor by describing leaders who hate good, love evil, and strip skin and flesh. The complete unit establishes this movement: Officials charged to know justice instead hate good, love evil, and consume the people; their later unanswered cry mirrors their refusal to hear those they harmed.
Why It Needs Context
This verse begins the anti-shepherd metaphor by describing leaders who hate good, love evil, and strip skin and flesh. That contribution depends on Micah 3:1-4; isolated teaching would detach this line from the complete poetic movement.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Micah 3:1-4 — Rulers Who Should Know Justice Consume the PeopleSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing Scripture wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Micah 3:1-4, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Micah
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording, morphology, clause relationships, wordplays, names, and the base text behind translation discussion.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Mic.xml, 3:1-4
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