Micah 6:6-7

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 6:6-8

The essentials of godliness. If the questions of Micah 6:6 and Micah 6:7 are those of Balak and the answers are Balaam's, they remind us of how a man may know and explain clearly the path of righteousness and peace, and yet neglect it. Balsam may prophesy; Demas may preach; Judas may cast out devils; but "I never knew you; depart from me ye that work iniquity!" Or if we regard the questions as proposed, either by the nation convicted of sin ( Micah 6:1-5 ), or by any one sin-stricken... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 6:6-8

Man's yearning for his Maker. The prophet supposes that his earnest appeals have had some effect that the people are stirred from their senselessness, and are beginning to feel after God. Overwhelmed with a consciousness of sin, they dare not approach him as they are. Their hesitation and their self-communing are like those of the prodigal in the far country when he came to himself. The sense of distance between the finite and the infinite, between the sin-stained and the holy, is... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 6:6-8

Fellowship with God. "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? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil?" etc. We raise from these words three general observations— I. THAT A LOVING FELLOWSHIP WITH THE GREAT GOD IS THE ONE URGENT NEED OF HUMANITY . "Wherewith shall I come before the Lord?" The language is... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 6:7

Thousands of rams, as though the quantity enhanced the value, and tended to dispose the Lord to regard the offerer's thousandfold sinfulness with greater favour. Ten thousands of rivers ( torrents , as in Job 20:17 ) of oil. Oil was used in the daily meal offering, and in that which accompanied every burnt offering (see Exodus 29:40 ; Le Exodus 7:10-12 ; Numbers 15:4 , etc.). The Vulgate has a different reading, In multis millibus hircorum pinguium ; so the Septuagint, ἐν... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Micah 6:6-7

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 they ought. With them it shall be but “Ask and have.” They wish only to know, with what they shall come? They would be beforehand with Him, anticipating His wishes; they would, with all the submission of a creature, bow, prostrate themselves before God; they acknowledge His High Majesty, who dwelleth... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Micah 6:6-7

Micah 6:6-7. 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 his judgments. They intimate that they are ready to offer any expiatory sacrifices, though never so costly, for that purpose. Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, &c. Will God accept of the ordinary sacrifices, such as we have offered on other occasions, as an atonement... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Micah 6:1-16

6:1-7:20 GOD ACCUSES AND THE PEOPLE REPLYWhat God desires (6:1-16)Returning to conditions in his own time, Micah pictures a courtroom where, with the heavens and earth as witnesses, God accuses his people of unfaithfulness (6:1-2). God recalls the great things he has done for them, as if asking why they treat him so badly in return (3-5).The people’s reply shows their misunderstanding. They ask what sort of worship God wants. Does he want sacrifices that are exact according to the letter of the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Micah 6:6

the high God = God on high. high. Hebrew. marom ; not Elyon. God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4 . burnt offerings. See App-43 . of a year old. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 9:3 ). App-92 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Micah 6:7

Will . . . ? shall I. . . ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6 . transgression = rebellion, insubordination. Hebrew. pasha'. App-44 . the fruit of my body = my firstborn. sin. Hebrew. chata'. App-44 . soul. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Micah 6:6

"Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousand rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?"This is one of the... read more

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