Micah 3:10
who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.
BSB
ASV
They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
KJV
They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
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.
They - The heads and great ones enlarge, beautify, and fortify, the house in Zion, particularly the temple and the royal palace. Blood - With wealth, which they made themselves masters of by violence, taking away the life of the owners.
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Matthew 27:25All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
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If anyone goes out the door of your house into the street, his blood will be on his own head, and we will be innocent. But if a hand is laid on anyone with…
“We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us responsible for this man’s blood.”
Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—
Thus innocent blood will not be shed in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.
who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,
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John 11:50You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”
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Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it would be better if one man died for the people.
And He told them, “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,
Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved!