Micah 3:11

The heads thereof judge for reward -Every class was corrupted. One sin, the root of all evil1 Timothy 6:10, covetousness, entered into all they did. It, not God, was their one end, and so their God. Her heads, the secular authority whoActs 23:3sat to judge according to the law, judged, contrary to the law, “for rewards.” They sat as the representatives of the Majesty of God, in whose Name they judged, whose righteous Judgment and correcting Providence law exhibits and executes, and they profaned it. “To judge for rewards” was in itself sin, forbidden by the lawExodus 23:8;Deuteronomy 16:19. To refuse justice, unless paid for it, was unjust, degrading to justice.