Hos 7:3-5, 9:15, Mic 3:1-3, 11, Act 4:5-11 | ESV | STEP | By their evil they make the king glad , and the princes by their treachery .

Hosea 7:3-5

3 By their evil ^athey make ^bthe king glad,
and the princes by their treachery.
4 ^cThey are all adulterers;
they are like a heated oven
whose baker ceases to stir the fire,
from the kneading of the dough
until it is leavened.
5 On the day of ^dour king, the princes
became sick with the heat of wine;
he stretched out his hand with mockers.

Hosea 9:15

15 Every evil of theirs is in ^eGilgal;
there I began to hate them.
Because of the wickedness of their deeds
I will drive them out of my house.
I will love them no more;
all ^ftheir princes are ^grebels.

Micah 3:1-3

Rulers and Prophets Denounced

1 And I said:
^hHear, you heads of Jacob
and rulers of the house of Israel!
ⁱIs it not for you to know justice?—
2 you ^jwho hate the good and love the evil,
^kwho tear the skin from off my people ^{▼▼Hebrew from off them}
and their flesh from off their bones,
3 ^mwho eat the flesh of my people,
and flay their skin from off them,
and break their bones in pieces
and chop them up like meat in a pot,
like flesh in a cauldron.

Micah 3:11

11 ⁿIts heads give judgment for a bribe;
^oits priests teach for a price;
^pits prophets practice divination for money;
^qyet they lean on the Lord and ^rsay,
“Is not the Lord in the midst of us?
^sNo disaster shall come upon us.”

Acts 4:5-11

5 On the next day their rulers and elders and scribes gathered together in Jerusalem, 6 with ^tAnnas the high priest and ^uCaiaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family. 7 And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, ^v“By what power or ^wby what name did you do this?” 8 Then Peter, ^xfilled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders, 9 if we are being examined today ^yconcerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed, 10 let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that ^zby the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, ^aawhom God raised from the dead—by him this man is standing before you well. 11 ^abThis Jesus ^{▼▼Greek This one} is the stone that was ^adrejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. ^{▼▼Greek the head of the corner}