Matthew Poole and continuators on Micah 3:10

10 They build up Zion with blood , and Jerusalem with iniquity .

Heads, Princes, Judges and great-ones among them.

Enlarge or beautifie, and fortifie

The houses in Zion, or perhaps may be meant the Temple and its buildings, and the Royal Palace of the Kings of Iudah.

With Wealth and Gifts which these Builders made themselves masters of by violence taking away the life of the Owners, or else fining and amercing them. By this course they wrested part of their Estates from them, by the other they seised all; they also for gain sometimes acquitted the Guilty, and freed them in capital Cases, and so sold the blood of the Innocent.

By such Injustice Ierusalem was brought to Ruin at last, though some particular Persons and Families did raise themselves, their Houses and Palaces to a present largeness and stateliness.

Marginal references: Ezek. 22.27. Zeph. 3.1.; Heb. bloods.