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Verse Micah 6:6. _WHEREWITH SHALL I COME BEFORE THE LORD_] Now the
people, as defendants, appear; but instead of vindicating themselves,
or attempting to dispute what has been alleged against them, th...
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WHEREWITH SHALL I COME BEFORE THE LORD? - The people, thus arraigned,
bursts in, as men do, with professions that they would be no more
ungrateful; that they will do anything, everything - but what th...
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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...
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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
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THE HIGH GOD. God on high.
HIGH. Hebrew. _marom_. not _Elyon._
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4.
BURNT OFFERINGS. See App-43.
OF. YEAR OLD. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 9:3). App-92....
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_GOD REQUIRED TRUE OBEDIENCE -- MICAH 6:6-8:_ Not many in Israel had
any interest at all in being an honor to God. It seems, however, that
some few in Israel asked, "What offering should I bring when...
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DISCOURSE: 1213
THE SUM OF PRACTICAL RELIGION
Micah 6:6. Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself
before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings,
with calves of a year...
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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...
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Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the
high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of
a year old?
WHEREWITH SHALL I COME BEFORE THE LORD? The peop...
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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...
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7. The people are represented as asking what more God requires from
them.
CALVES OF A YEAR OLD] a choice gift: cp. Leviticus 9:3.
7. Human sacrifice was practised (2 Kings 21:6; Jeremiah 7:31;...
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God has reminded his people about his wonderful acts in the past.
Micah speaks on behalf of God’s people. He recognises that they do
not obey God any longer. God’s people need to understand this. They...
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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 *...
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WHEREWITH SHALL I COME...?_ — _This has been taken by some
commentators as Balak’s question to Balaam, who gives his reply in
Micah 6:8. Dean Stanley writes, after his picturesque manner, of
“the shor...
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בַּ מָּה֙ אֲקַדֵּ֣ם יְהוָ֔ה אִכַּ֖ף
לֵ אלֹהֵ֣
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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...
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“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,...
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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...
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Wherewith (e) shall I come before the LORD, [and] bow myself before
the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with
calves of a year old?
(e) Thus the people by hypocrisy ask how to...
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_What shall I offer, &c. This is spoken in the person of the people,
desiring to be informed what they are to do to please God. (Challoner)
--- They can answer nothing in their own defence._...
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This is that memorable passage in scripture which hath given rise to
numberless opinions, both in the moral and religious world, and by the
perversion of it, untaught by God the Holy Ghost, hath produ...
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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...
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The Prophet now inquires, as in the name of the people, what was
necessary to be done: and he takes these two principles as granted,
— that the people were without any excuse, and were forced to
confe...
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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...
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WHEREWITH SHALL I COME BEFORE THE LORD,.... These are not the words of
the people of Israel God had a controversy with, and now made sensible
of their sin, and humbled for it; and willing to appease t...
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Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, [and] bow myself before the
high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of
a year old?
Ver. 6. _Wherewith shall I come before the Lord?...
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_Wherewith shall I come before the Lord_ After the preceding reproof
of the people's ingratitude, they are here introduced as anxiously
inquiring how they may propitiate God's displeasure, and avert h...
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Wherewith shall I come before the Lord and bow myself before the high
God? the prophet asks in the name of the people, in order to restore
the relationship which had been so rudely disturbed by their...
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A CALL TO REPENTANCE...
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OF A YEAR OLD? _HEB._SONS OF A YEAR...
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6-8 These verses seem to contain the substance of Balak's
consultation with Balaam how to obtain the favour of Israel's God.
Deep conviction of guilt and wrath will put men upon careful inquiries
aft...
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In the foregoing part of the chapter you have God's resolution to have
a hearing, MICAH 6:1,2, and his plea for himself against an ungrateful
people, MICAH 6:3. Now in this verse you have the result,...
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Micah 6:6 before H6923 (H8762) LORD H3068 bow H3721 (H8735) High H4791
God H430 before H6923 ...
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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...
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Micah 6:6
Many and various, in all ages, have been the answers to this question,
but in spirit and principle they reduce themselves to the three which
in these verses are tacitly rejected, that the f...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Wherewith shall I come before the Lord _
PLEASING GOD
This is a momentous question, which the world has ever been
asking--“How shall we approach God?
” For men feel that they are separated from Hi...
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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 ...
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MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 6:6 LORD... GOD ON HIGH. The covenantal Lord is
also the transcendent God. SHALL I GIVE...? The proposed sacrifices
increase in value and absurdity, ending with an outrage
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
MICAH 6:3. WHAT] opens the suit. Israel, tired with the _dealings_ of
God, had backslided from him. WEARIED] By demanding what is irksome
(Isaiah 43:23; 1 John 5:3); or failing to per...
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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...
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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...
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2 Samuel 21:3; Acts 16:17; Acts 16:30; Acts 2:37; Daniel 3:26;...
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Wherewith — One whose heart was touched by the preceeding
expostulation, may be supposed to make this enquiry....