Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Micah 6:11
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, when they were daily cheating in trade and business, and with the bag of deceitful weights? with which the scales were made incorrect.
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, when they were daily cheating in trade and business, and with the bag of deceitful weights? with which the scales were made incorrect.
SHALL I COUNT THEM PURE? - Rather, (as the English margin) “Shall I be pure?” The prophet takes for the time their person and bids them judge themselves in him. If it would defile me, how are ye, with...
THE THIRD PROPHETIC DISCOURSE (6-7) CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The words of Jehovah to His people (Micah 6:1) _ 2. Israel's answer (Micah 6:6) 3. The moral demands of Jehovah (Micah 6:8) 4. The Lord must jud...
COMMERCIAL DISHONESTY AND ITS PUNISHMENT. This rather corrupt passage is quite distinct from Micah 6:1. It may have been written by Micah, and forms a parallel to his denunciation of agrarian dishones...
THEM. Supply [her]: i.e. the wicked city. THE WICKED BALANCES. Hebrew balances of wickedness. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 25:13). App-92....
_GOD WAS DISPLEASED WITH CHEATING AND VIOLENCE -- MICAH 6:9-11:_ A wise man will listen to and obey the voice of Jehovah. He is the Lord and it makes sense to respect His power. He has power to bless...
SHALL I COUNT THEM PURE, &C.— _Shall I use the wicked balance, and the stones of deceitful weight, that I may absolve this city._ Micah 6:12. _Whose rich men are full,_ &c. Houbigant....
GOD'S JUSTICE DEMANDS THE WICKED BE PUNISHED. Micah 6:9-16 RV. The voice of Jehovah crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom will see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it. Are there...
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? SHALL I COUNT THEM PURE - literally, 'Shall I be pure with,' etc. With the pure, God shows Himself pure; but...
GOD'S ARRAIGNMENT OF HIS PEOPLE 1-8. Micah's message to the discouraged believers. They have lost heart because of the apparent contradiction between the promises of their prophets and the hard facts...
SHALL I COUNT _them_ PURE] RV 'shall I be pure,' i.e. can any man be pure? 13. RV 'Therefore I also have smitten thee with a grievous wound.'...
MICAH SPEAKS A MESSAGE FROM GOD TO ALL THE NATIONS MICAH _LES PAINTER_ CHAPTER 6 SECTION 3 6:1-7:20 THIRD SERIES OF *PROPHECIES. GOD WILL FORGIVE THE *REMNANT OF HIS PEOPLE 6:1-8 MICAH ACCUSES *...
This was a message to the people that did business in the city. It was a message about evil behaviour in business. Good business is not just about how to increase profits. That was how the people in b...
SHALL I COUNT THEM PURE? — Rather, _Can I be innocent with the deceitful balances?_ The enactments about weights were very stringently expressed in the Law, both affirmatively and negatively: _e.g.,_...
הַ אֶזְכֶּ֖ה בְּ מֹ֣אזְנֵי רֶ֑שַׁע וּ בְ
THE SIN OF THE SCANT MEASURE Micah 6:9; Micah 7:1 THE state of the text of Micah 6:9; Micah 7:1 is as confused as the condition of society which it describe
“WHAT DOTH THE LORD REQUIRE OF THEE?” Micah 6:1-16 In Micah 6:1-4 the prophet returns from his vision of the future to the actual condition of his people, which was utterly desperate. The mountains,...
This closing section is dramatic and magnificent. The prophet summoned Israel and the mountains to hear the controversy of Jehovah with His people. The key-word is "Jehovah... will plead." From that p...
These expressions are all directed to one and the same end, namely, to teach Israel the enormity of his transgressions. Omri was a king in Israel, and so was Ahab, his son; both transgressors before t...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. The prophecy of Micah, like all the rest, has its own distinctive properties, though falling into the general current of testimony to Israel, and so far with...
_Shall I justify? etc. _(174) This verse is connected with the last, and is added as an explanation. For God having come forth as a Judge, now shows what sort of Judge he is, even one who is not biase...
After having thus declared the counsels of God in grace, the Spirit returns to His pleadings with Israel in respect of their moral condition, calling the whole earth as audience to hear His controvers...
SHALL I COUNT [THEM] PURE WITH THE WICKED BALANCES,.... These are the words either of the prophet, or rather of God, signifying that he could not, and would not, allow, countenance, and approve of per...
Shall I count [them] pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? Ver. 11. _Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances?_] Shall I clear and acquit such? I that am the r...
_Are there yet the treasures of wickedness_, &c. Notwithstanding all the express laws, the exhortations and reproofs given you upon this subject, and so many examples of punishment set before you; sti...
SHALL I COUNT THEM PURE: Or, shall I be pure with, etc....
9-16 God, having showed how necessary it was that they should do justly, here shows how plain it was that they had done unjustly. This voice of the Lord says to all, Hear the rod when it is coming, b...
SHALL I? it may have some reference to the prophet, as speaking of himself, appointed of God to be a reprover and impartial censurer of the sins of this people; When I am so to judge of them by their...
Micah 6:11 pure H2135 (H8799) wicked H7562 scales H3976 bag H3599 deceitful H4820 weights H68 count them pure - or, be pure the wicked -
THE PROPHET NOW REINFORCES HIS WORDS BY CALLING FOR THEIR RESPONSE AND EMPHASISING THEIR FAILURES AND WHAT WILL RESULT FROM THEM (MICAH 6:9). Although YHWH pleads with His people they still walk in t...
Micah 6:1. _Hear ye now what the LORD saith;_ And yet some doubt the infallible inspiration of Scripture. I would commence every reading of the Scripture with such a word of admonition as this: «Hear...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's controversy with Israel's past and present. CHARACTERS: God, Omri, Ahab, Balak, Balaam. CONCLUSION: God issues a challenge to all who have ever professed belief in Him, but have w...
Micah 6:5. _Oh my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted._ He went to Balaam the false prophet for advice; and both he and his people, and the prophet perished together. Had he hearken...
_The scant measure which is abomination _ CIVIC SINS In these verses we have a sample of the crimes which abound in the city, and which would bring on the threatened judgment. I. Their variety. 1....
FALSE WEIGHTS A bag of deceitful weights. Micah 6:11. “Sixteen ounces one pound, fourteen pounds one stone!” Why is fourteen pounds called a stone? For the very good reason that weights in olden day...
MICAH 6:1 The Lord’s Indictment and Restoration of His People. The Lord’s indictment against his people is delivered (Micah 6:1), and the crisis within the covenantal relationship is described ...
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 6:10 TREASURES OF WICKEDNESS... WICKED SCALES. The Lord cannot tolerate his people’s gaining wealth by unfair business practices (compare Proverbs 11:1
CRITICAL NOTES.] MICAH 6:10. YET] notwithstanding warnings, treasures acquired by fraud and oppression. SCANT] Lit. lean ephah, the measure forbidden (too small), not the right measure (Deuteronomy 25...
EXPOSITION VERSE 6:1-7:20 Part III. In this address, which is later than the preceding parts, the prophet sets forth the way of salvation: PUNISHMENT IS THE CONSEQUENCE OF SIN; REPENTANCE IS THE ONLY...
Hear ye now what the LORD says; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for th...
Hosea 12:7; Proverbs 16:11...
Count them pure — Approve, or acquit then as if they were righteous....