Matthew Poole and continuators on Micah 3:1

1 AND I said , Hear , I pray you , O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel ; is it not for you to know judgment?

In further discharge of his Prophetick Office, and his direction from the Lord, the Prophet proceeds to preach.

Attend diligently, and give good ear.

Being to address to Governours, he intreats their attention as we have the Hebrew particle here rendred, which might have been rendred now, and so the Gallic Version doth render it, and the particle signifieth both.

You that are by birth heads of the Families, and by office, Princes, and Rulers in Israel and Iacob, i. e. in the Kingdom both of the Ten Tribes▪ and more particularly the Two Tribes, as appears from the last verse of this chapter.

Are you not bound by Office? Do not men expect? Doth not God require? doth the publick-weal engage you to be well-skilled in the Laws of God?

Understand, approve, conform to, and Rule by Equity, and the just Laws of your God. You Princes, Magistrates, and Ruling Officers, ought to know, and do Judgment and Justice, you of all men should know and do right.