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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Micah 6:1-5

Here, I. The prefaces to the message are very solemn and such as may engage our most serious attention. 1. The people are commanded to give audience: Hear you now what the Lord says. What the prophet speaks he speaks from God, and in his name; they are therefore bound to hear it, not as the word of a sinful dying man, but of the holy living God. Hear now what he saith, for, first or last, he will be heard. 2. The prophet is commanded to speak in earnest, and to put an emphasis upon what he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 6:1

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 now, as they had heard before many great and precious promises concerning the Messiah, and the happiness of the church in future time; to hear what the Lord now said to them by the prophet, and what he said to the prophet himself, as follows: arise ; O Prophet Micah, and do thine office;... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 6:1

Arise, contend thou - This chapter is a sort of dialogue between God and the people. God speaks the five first verses, and convicts the people of sin, righteousness, and judgment. The People, convinced of their iniquity, deprecate God's judgments, in the sixth and seventh verses. In the eighth verse God prescribes the way in which they are to be saved; and then the prophet, by the command of God, goes on to remonstrate from the ninth verse to the end of the chapter. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 6:1

Verse 1 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 any discretion. He is therefore commanded to direct his discourse to the mountains and to the hills; for his labor had now for a long time been useless as to men. The meaning then is that when the Prophet had spent much labor on the people and derived no fruit, he is at length bidden to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 6:1

Hear ye now. The whole nation is addressed and bidden to give heed to God's pleading. Arise, contend thou. These are God's words to Micah, bidding him put himself in his people's place, and plead as advocate before the great inanimate tribunal. Before the mountains; i.e. in the presence of the everlasting hills, which have as it were witnessed God's gracious dealings with his people from old time and Israel's long ingratitude (comp. Micah 1:2 ). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 6:1-5

1. God ' s controversy with his people for their ingratitude. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 6:1-5

The memories of the way. Truly affecting are those portions of Scripture in which God is represented as expostulating and pleading with erring men ( Hosea 6:4 ; Hosea 11:8 ; Isaiah 1:16-20 ; Jeremiah 2:1-14 ). The opening verses of this chapter are of the same character. God testifies, and in so doing calls upon the mountains and hills and strong foundations of the earth which have stood from age to age to bear him witness and confirm his testimony ( Micah 6:2 ). "O my people,"... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 6:1-5

A protest and a retrospect. The serious state of the cue between Jehovah and his people is shown by this appeal to the hills and mountains. As though among all the nations none could be found impartial enough to be umpires, or even witnesses, inanimate nature must supply its testimony. (Illustrate from Job 12:7 , Job 12:8 ; Isaiah 1:2 , Isaiah 1:3 ; Luke 19:40 ; 2 Peter 2:16 .) The mountains hays stability; not so the favoured nation. They have survived many generations of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 6:1-5

Man in the moral court of history. "Hear ye now what the Lord saith; 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 the Lord hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel," etc. There are three things here very striking and deserving our solemn attention. I. HERE IS A CALL ON MAN TO GIVE AUDIENCE TO ALMIGHTY GOD . "Hear ye now... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Micah 6:1

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 had to arise at the bidding of God, that he might not “be rebellious like that rebellious house” Ezekiel 2:8. Stand up; as one having all authority to rebuke, and daunted by none. He muses the hearer, as shewing it to be a very grave urgent matter, to be done promptly, urgently, without delay.... read more

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