The statutes — The idolatrous worship was set up by Omri in the royal city. Ye — O house of Israel. That I should make thee — This will be the event. Thereof — Of the land. The reproach — The reproach threatened in the law, if my people forsake me.
Verse Micah 6:16. _THE STATUTES OF OMRI ARE KEPT_] _Omri_, king of Israel, the father of Ahab, was one of the worst kings the Israelites ever had; and _Ahab_ followed in his wicked father's steps. Th...
FOR THE STATUTES OF OMRI ARE KEPT - Rather, (like the English margin he doth much keep,) And he doth keep diligently for himself. Both ways express much diligence in evil . To “keep God’s commandments...
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...
THE STATUTES. Hebrew. _hukkoth =_ in. religious sense (Lev 20:8. 2 Kings 17:34.Jeremiah 10:3; Jeremiah 10:3). OF OMRI. Compare...
_IDOLATRY DESTROYED THE NATION -- MICAH 6:12-16:_ God levied some serious charges against the rich. The charges were made not because they were rich but because of how they obtained the wealth. He sai...
FOR THE STATUTES OF OMRI ARE KEPT— _Because thou keepest the statutes,_ &c. _and followest their counsels, that I should make thee a desolation, and thine inhabitants a hissing; therefore,_ &c. See Ho...
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...
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye sh...
6:16 desolation, (d-29) Or 'an astonishment.' thereof (e-33) i.e. Samaria, ch. 1.5....
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...
THE STATUTES OF OMRI and the WORKS OF AHAB'S HOUSE are the worship of Baal: cp. 1 Kings 16:31. Manasseh has gone back to the sins of the northern kingdom, though its fate might have warned him: cp. 2...
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 *...
The important people in Jerusalem wanted to make profit. That was their main aim in everything that they did. In order to make profit, they had been cruel to people. The result was that everyone had b...
THE STATUTES OF OMRI. — The people of Judah, instead of keeping the commandments of the Lord diligently, adopted the statutes of the house of Omri, the founder of the idolatrous dynasty of Ahab. They...
וְ יִשְׁתַּמֵּ֞ר חֻקֹּ֣ות עָמְרִ֗י וְ כֹל֙ מַ
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...
For the (m) statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye...
_The statutes of Amri, &c. The wicked ways of Amri and Achab, idolatrous kings. (Challoner) --- They were the most infamous of Israel, 3 Kings xvi. 25, 30. (Worthington) --- Hebrew, "the statutes of A...
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...
REFLECTIONS READER! what are all the controversies the Lord hath with his people, but on account of their transgression and sin? And how gracious must it be in God, still to bear with his people, and...
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...
Some read the words in the future tense, “And they will observe the statutes of Omri,” etc., and gather this meaning, — that the Prophet now foresees by the Spirit, that the people would continue so p...
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...
FOR THE STATUTES OF OMRI ARE KEPT,.... Who of a captain of the army was made king of Israel, and proved a wicked prince; he built Samaria, and set up idolatrous worship there, after the example of Jer...
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye sha...
_For the statutes of Omri are kept_ An idolatrous king, of whom it is said, 1 Kings 16:25, that he _did worse than all that were before him_, and therefore we may judge of the corruption of the people...
For the statutes of Omri, who founded a wicked dynasty of rulers of the northern kingdom, 1 Kings 16:25, ARE KEPT AND ALL THE WORKS OF THE HOUSE OF AHAB, the worship of Baal which had then been establ...
A THREAT OF PUNISHMENT...
THE STATUES: Or, he doth much keep the etc. DESOLATION: Or, astonishment...
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...
THE STATUTES OF OMRI; of which you read, 1 KINGS 16:25. He built Samaria, to be a royal city, and seat of religion brought in by Jeroboam; thus he both strengthened and put more credit upon the idolat...
Micah 6:16 statutes H2708 Omri H6018 kept H8104 (H8691) works H4639 Ahabs H256 house H1004 walk H3212 ...
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...
_And the statutes of Omri are kept _ OMRI AND AHAB: LESSONS WORTH STUDY On the long dark roll of human infamy there are but few darker names than those of Omri and Ahab. Learn-- I. The religious se...
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 6:16 OMRI... AHAB. These wicked kings of Israel (the northern kingdom) had been a corrupting influence even on the southern kingdom of Judah (see...
CRITICAL NOTES.] MICAH 6:13. SICK] _i.e._ I smite thee mortally (cf. for expression, Nahum 3:19; for matter, Micah 1:9). Micah 6:14. Satis.
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...
1 Kings 16:25; 1 Kings 16:30; 1 Kings 18:4; 1 Kings 21:25;...