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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Micah 6:9-16

God, having shown them how necessary it was that they should do justly, here shows them how plain it was that they had done unjustly; and since they submitted not to his controversy, nor went the right way to have it taken up, here he proceeds in it. Observe, I. How the action is entered against them, Mic. 6:9. God speaks to the city, to Jerusalem, to Samaria. His voice cries to it by his servants the prophets who were to cry aloud and not spare. Note, The voice of the prophets is the Lord's... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 6:11

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 persons that used false scales or balances; or justify and reckon them just, as they would be thought to be, but condemn them, and pronounce them very wicked men, and deserving of punishment here and hereafter: and with the bag of deceitful weights ? or "stones" F15 אבני מרמה "lapidum... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 6:12

For the rich men thereof are full of violence ,.... That is, the rich men of the city, to whom the voice of the Lord cried, Micah 6:9 . Jerusalem or Samaria, or any or all the cities of Israel and Judah; the rich men of these cities, who had enough of the world, and were under no temptation to do an ill thing, to get money; and yet their hands and their houses, and their treasuries, as the Targum, were full of goods gotten by violent measures, by the oppression of the poor and needy: ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 6:13

Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee ,.... With the rod to be heard, Micah 6:9 ; by sending among them some of his sore judgments, as famine, pestilence, the sword of the enemy, internal wars, and the like; which should cause their kingdom, and state, and families, to decline and waste away, as a sickly and diseased body. So the Targum, "and I brought upon thee illness and a stroke.' The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, render it, "and I began to... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 6:12

For the rich men thereof are full of violence - This shows that they did not love mercy. The inhabitants thereof have spoken lies - This shows that they did not humble themselves to walk with God. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 6:13

Will I make thee sick in smiting thee - Perhaps better, "I also am weary with smiting thee, in making thee desolate for thy sins." They were corrected, but to no purpose; they had stroke upon stroke, but were not amended. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 6:11

Verse 11 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 biased by favor, who does not change his judgment, who shows no respect of persons. But men, for the most part, greatly deceive themselves, when they transform God according to their own will, and promise to themselves that he will be propitious to them, provided they only make false pretensions... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 6:12

Verse 12 The Prophet means that the people were so given to avarice and plunder, that all the riches they had heaped together had been got by iniquitous robberies or by wicked gain. He now addresses the citizens of Jerusalem: for though iniquity then prevailed through the whole of Judea, there was yet a reason why he should distinctly accuse the inhabitants of Jerusalem; for they must have led the way by their example, and they were also worse in wickedness than the rest of the people: they... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 6:13

Verse 13 God, after having declared that he would be the Judge of the people, speaks now more clearly of their punishment. He says therefore that he was armed with vengeance: for it often happens, when a judge, even one who hates wickedness, is not able to punish, for he dreads the fierceness of those whom he thinks himself unequal to restrain. Hence God intimates here, that there will not be wanting to him a power to punish the people, I will afflict thee, he says, by striking or woundingthee;... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 6:9-12

§ 3. Because Israel was very far from acting in this spirit, God sternly rebukes her for prevailing sins . read more

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