Teks -- Micah 3:10 (NET)

3:10 You build Zion through bloody crimes, Jerusalem through unjust violence.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Mic 3:10 - They

The heads and great ones enlarge, beautify, and fortify, the house in Zion, particularly the temple and the royal palace.

Wesley: Mic 3:10 - Blood

With wealth, which they made themselves masters of by violence, taking away the life of the owners.

JFB: Mic 3:10 - They

Change of person from "ye" (Mic 3:9); the third person puts them to a greater distance as estranged from Him. It is, literally, "Whosoever builds," singular.

JFB: Mic 3:10 - build up Zion with blood

Build on it stately mansions with wealth obtained by the condemnation and murder of the innocent (Jer 22:13; Eze 22:27; Hab 2:12).

Clarke: Mic 3:10 - They build up Zion with blood

They build up Zion with blood - They might cry out loudly against that butchery practiced by Pekah, king of Israel, and Pul coadjutor of Rezie, against the Jews. See on Mic 2:9 (note). But these were by no means clear themselves; for if they strengthened the city, or decorated the temple, it was by the produce of their exactions and oppressions of the people

I do not know a text more applicable than this to slave-dealers; or to any who have made their fortunes by such wrongs as affect the life of man; especially the former, who by the gains of this diabolic traffic have built houses etc.; for, following up the prophet’ s metaphor, the timbers, etc., are the bones of the hapless Africans; and the mortar, the blood of the defenceless progeny of Ham. What an account must all those who have any hand in or profit from this detestable, degrading, and inhuman traffic, give to Him who will shortly judge the quick and dead!

Calvin: Mic 3:10 - NO PHRASE

Then when he says, that Zion was built by blood, and Jerusalem by iniquity, it is the same as though the Prophet had said, that whatever the great men expended on their palaces had been procured, and, as it were, scraped together from blood and plunder. The judges could not have possibly seized on spoils on every side, without being bloody, that is, without pillaging the poor: for the judges were for the most part corrupted by the rich and the great; and then they destroyed the miserable and the innocent. He then who is corrupted by money will become at the same time a thief; and he will not only extort money, but will also shed blood. There is then no wonder that Micah says, that Zion was built by blood He afterwards extends wider his meaning and mentions iniquity, as he wished to cast off every excuse from hypocrites. The expression is indeed somewhat strong, when he says, that Zion was built by blood. They might have objected and said, that they were not so cruel, though they could not wholly clear themselves from the charge of avarice. “When I speak of blood,” says the Prophet, “there is no reason that we should contend about a name; for all iniquity is blood before God: if then your houses have been built by plunder, your cruelty is sufficiently proved; it is as though miserable and innocent men had been slain by your own hands.” The words, Zion and Jerusalem, enhance their sin; for they polluted the holy city and the mount on which the temple was built by the order and command of God.

TSK: Mic 3:10 - build up Zion // blood

build up Zion : Jer 22:13-17; Eze 22:25-28; Hab 2:9-12; Zep 3:3; Mat 27:25; Joh 11:50

blood : Heb. bloods

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Mic 3:10 - They // Build up // Zion // With blood // And Jerusalem with iniquity

They heads, princes, judges, and great ones among them.

Build up enlarge or beautify, and fortify.

Zion the houses in Zion, or perhaps may be meant the temple and its buildings, and the royal palace of the kings of Judah.

With blood 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 seized all; they also for gain sometimes acquitted the guilty, and freed them in capital cases, and so sold the blood of the innocent.

And Jerusalem with iniquity by such injustice Jerusalem 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.

Haydock: Mic 3:10 - Iniquity

Iniquity. You offer victims unjustly procured, or build your palaces with what belongs to the poor.

Gill: Mic 3:10 - They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. Or, "O thou that buildest up" ^g, &c. or "everyone of them that buildeth up" ^h, &c. for the word is in the singular number; but, be fire words rendered either of these ways, they respect the heads and princes of the people; who either repaired the temple on Zion, or ornamented the king's palace, or built themselves fine stately houses in Jerusalem, or large streets there, by money they took of murderers to save them, as Kimchi; or by money got by rapine and oppression, by spoiling the poor of their goods and their livelihood, for them and their families, which was all one as shedding innocent blood; and by money obtained by bribes, for the perversion of justice, and such like illegal proceedings, truly called iniquity. The Targum is,

"who build their houses in Zion with bloodshed, and Jerusalem with deceits.''