Verse Micah 6:15. Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap] Thou shalt labour to amass property, but thou shalt not have God's blessing; and whatever thou collectest, thy enemies shall carry away. And at last carry thyself into captivity.
THOU SHALT SOW, BUT THOU SHALT NOT REAP - Micah renews the threatenings of the law Leviticus 26:16; Deuteronomy 28:30, Deuteronomy 28:38, which they had been habitually breakin
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...
THOU SHALT SOW, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:38). SWEET WINE. Hebrew. _tirosh._ App-27. WINE. Hebrew. _yayin._ App-27....
_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...
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...
Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine. THOU SHALL SOW, BUT THOU SHALL NOT REAP - fu...
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...
SWEET WINE] RV 'vintage.' 'Thou shaft tread the grapes, but shalt not drink the wine made from them.'...
Micah begins to make it clear how the people’s *sins in *Israel will affect everyone. The people are guilty of various crimes. God makes his decisions. The punishments will suit (match) the crimes. Ot...
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 *...
THOU SHALT TREAD THE OLIVES — _i.e._, as wheat upon the threshing-floor. Oil was regarded as indispensable for personal comfort. In Jotham’s parable of the trees in council about the choice of a king,...
אַתָּ֥ה תִזְרַ֖ע וְ לֹ֣א תִקְצֹ֑ור אַתָּ֤ה תִ
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...
The Prophet adds another kind of punishment, which was to follow the calamity threatened in the last verse. He had said, that those who escaped would at length be destroyed by the sword; he says now,...
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...
THOU SHALL SOW, BUT THOU SHALT NOT REAP,.... Either that which is sown shall not spring up, but rot in the earth; or if it does spring up, and come to maturity, yet, before that, they should be remove...
Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine. Ver. 15. _Thou shall sow, but thou shalt not r...
_Therefore will I make thee sick in smiting thee _ Therefore, upon account of these thy sins, I will, ere long, so smite thee, O Israel, that the strokes shall reach thy heart, and make thee sick unto...
Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap, the enemy either destroying or robbing the crop; THOU SHALT TREAD THE OLIVES, BUT THOU SHALT NOT ANOINT THEE WITH OIL, since the enemy would plunder the stores...
A THREAT OF PUNISHMENT...
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...
THOU SHALT SOW, be at great pains and cost in tilling and sowing, BUT THOU SHALT NOT REAP; it shall either not thrive to a harvest, or, if it does, an enemy shall reap it. THOU SHALT TREAD THE OLIVES,...
Micah 6:15 sow H2232 (H8799) reap H7114 (H8799) tread H1869 (H8799) olives H2132 anoint H5480 ...
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...
_Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap _ USELESS LABOUR Mark the vexation of it--sowing and not reaping; sowing, and somebody else reaping. Here is the uncontrollable element in life. A man says,...
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 6:14 YOU SHALL SOW, BUT NOT REAP. Human activity is useless without God’s blessing. This is God’s sentence against his people for their sin (compare...
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...
Amos 5:11; Deuteronomy 28:38; Haggai 1:6; Isaiah 62:8; Isaiah 62:9;...
Thou shalt not reap — An enemy shall reap it. Sweet wine — Thou shalt tread the grapes which afford sweet wine....