Micah 6:1-6 KJV

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

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Micah 6:6-8

Here is the proposal for accommodation between God and Israel, the parties that were at variance in the beginning of the chapter. Upon the trial, judgment is given against Israel; they are convicted of injustice and ingratitude towards God, the crimes with which they stood charged. Their guilt is too plain to be denied, too great to be excused, and therefore, I. They express their desires to be at peace with God upon any terms (Mic. 6:6, 7): Wherewith shall I come before the Lord? Being made... 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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 6:2

Hear ye, O mountains, the Lord's controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth ,.... These are the words of the prophet, obeying the divine command, calling upon the mountains, which are the strong parts of the earth, and the bottoms of them the foundations of it, to hear the Lord's controversy with his people, and judge between them; or, as some think, these are the persons with whom, and against whom, the controversy was; the chief and principal men of the land, who were as pillars... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 6:3

O my people ,.... These are the words of the Lord himself by the prophet, expressing his strong affection to the people of Israel, of which his goodness to them was a full proof, and this was an aggravation of their ingratitude to him; they were his people, whom he had chosen for himself above all people of the earth; whom he had redeemed from the house of bondage, had distinguished them by his layouts, and loaded them with his benefits, and yet they sinned against him: what have I done... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 6:4

For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt ,.... Instead of doing them any wrong, he had done them much good; of which this is one instance, and he was able to produce more: this a notorious, plain, and full proof of his goodness to them, which could not be denied. It may be rendered, as it is by some, "surely I brought thee up" F19 כי "certe", Calvin, Piscator, Tarnovius; so some in Vatablus. , &c.; this is a certain thing, well known, and cannot be disproved; it must be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 6:5

O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted ,.... What a scheme he had laid; what contrivances he had formed; what consultations he had with a soothsayer or diviner he sent for to curse Israel; how he sought to get the God of Israel on his side, and to set him against them, that he might be rid of them, and they be ruined and destroyed. The Moabites were the descendants of Moab, a son of Lot, by one of his daughters; when they first set up their kingdom is not certain; nor... read more

John Gill

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

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 the Lord, and make it up with him at any rate; for there are such things proposed by them as do by no means suit with persons of such a character, nay, even suppose them to be hypocritical; and much less are they what were put into their mouths by the prophet to say, as some suggest; but they... 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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 6:2

Hear ye, O mountains - Micah, as God's advocate, summons this people into judgment, and makes an appeal to inanimate creation against them. He had spoken to the priests, to the princes, to the people. He had done every thing that was necessary to make them wise, and holy, and happy; they had uniformly disobeyed, and were ever ungrateful. It was not consistent with either the justice or mercy of God to permit them to go on without reprehension and punishment. He now calls them into judgment;... read more

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

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Micah 6:6-8

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 6:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 6:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 6:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 6:5

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

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 6:2

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