Hear ye now, &c.— This is a new discourse, addressed to the ten tribes. The Lord commands the prophet to call Israel to judgment before the mountains and the hills, and to receive the condemnation of their ingratitude, infidelity, injustice, and impiety.
CHAPTER VI _This chapter reproves and threatens. The manner of raising the_ _attention by calling on man to urge his plea in the face of all_ _nature, and on the inanimate creation to hear the expo...
HEAR YE NOW WHAT THE LORD SAITH - If ye will not hear the rebuke of man, hear now at last the word of God. “Arise thou, Micah.” The prophet was not willing to be the herald of woe to his people; but h...
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...
POPULAR_ V._ PROPHETIC RELIGION. The classical summary of prophetic religion in Micah 6:8 is introduced by the figure frequently employed (Hosea 4:1; Hosea 12:2; Isaiah
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4....
_THE LORD'S CHALLENGE TO HIS PEOPLE -- MICAH 6:1-5:_ God called upon Israel to present any complaints that they might have against Him in the presence of everyone. Micah moved from his prediction of t...
FORGOTTEN ACTS OF SALVATION. Micah 6:1-8 RV. Hear ye now what Jehovah saith: Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. Hear, O ye mountains, Jehovah's controversy, an...
Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear...
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...
Here there is a change in the subject that Micah is writing about. Micah leaves the message about the future (which was in Chapter s 4-5). He returns to *Israel’s present troubles. Verses 1 and 2 are...
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 *...
VI. (1) HEAR YE NOW WHAT THE LORD SAITH. — The third portion of Micah’s prophecy opens with a solemn appeal to Nature to hear the Lord pleading with His people. A similar summons is found in Deuteron...
שִׁמְעוּ ־נָ֕א אֵ֥ת אֲשֶׁר ־יְהוָ֖ה אֹמֵ֑ר ק֚
THE REASONABLENESS OF TRUE RELIGION Micah 6:1 WE have now reached a passage from which all obscurities of date and authorship disappear before the transparence and splendor of its contents. "These fe...
“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...
Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the (a) mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. (a) He took the high mountains and hard rocks as witnesses against the obstinacy of hi...
_The mountains, &c. That is, the princes, the great ones of the people. (Challoner) --- But Hebrew intimates real mountains, which had witnessed the impiety of the people, (Calmet) and had been defile...
CONTENTS This is a beautiful Chapter, inasmuch as it sets forth the graciousness of the Lord in his expostulations with Israel....
This seems a new Sermon of the Prophet's, opening at this Chapter. The stile is as usual in the prophetic way. Not only the people are called upon, but the inanimate part of the creation, to be witnes...
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...
Here the Prophet avowedly assumes that the people were sufficiently proved guilty; and yet they resisted through a hardiness the most obdurate, and rejected all admonitions without shame, and without...
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...
HEAR YE NOW WHAT THE LORD SAITH,.... Here begins a new discourse, and with an address of the prophet to the people of Israel, to hear what the Lord had to say to them by way of reproof for their sins...
Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. Ver. 1. _Hear ye now what the Lord saith_] _Exordium breve est, sed plane patheticum,_ sai...
_Hear now what the Lord saith_ Here begins a new discourse, respecting the causes of the evils which hung over the Jewish nation. _Arise_ This is God's command to Micah; _contend thou before the mount...
A CALL TO REPENTANCE...
Hear ye now what the Lord saith, in this closing address to the Israelites, ARISE, CONTEND THOU BEFORE THE MOUNTAINS, the prophet being called upon to be a witness of the judicial controversy which wa...
BEFORE: Or, with...
1-5 The people are called upon to declare why they were weary of God's worship, and prone to idolatry. Sin causes the controversy between God and man. God reasons with us, to teach us to reason with o...
MICAH CHAPTER 6 God's controversy with his people for ingratitude, MICAH 6:1. What service is acceptable to him, MICAH 6:6. He reproveth them for their injustice, MICAH 6:10, and idolatry,...
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MICAH NOW CALLS ON CREATION TO WITNESS YHWH'S CASE AGAINST ISRAEL, AND FINISHES BY STATING YHWH'S REQUIREMENTS. (MICAH 6:1) Knowing that the people might be puzzled as to why YHWH should treat His peo...
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...
_Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice _ GOD’S CONTROVERSY WITH ISRAEL In this text we have God offering to plead before the sinner. The parties, who are they? O...
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 ...
CRITICAL NOTES.] The _third_ division now begins, after declaration of judgment and salvation which awaits the future remnant. HEAR] Plead with God in controversy. MTS.] Witness and murmur with the ec...
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 Samuel 15:16; Amos 3:1; Deuteronomy 32:1; Deuteronomy 4:26; Ezeki
Arise — This is God's command to Micah. Contend thou — Argue the case between God and thy people; and speak as if thou wouldst make the mountains hear thee, to testify for me....