Micah 6:6-16

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

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 6:6

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 6:7

Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams ,.... If single burnt offerings of bullocks and heifers will not do, will rams, and thousands of them, be acceptable to him? if they will, they are at his service, even as many as he pleases; such creatures, as well as oxen, were offered by Balak, Numbers 23:1 ; or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? for meat offerings, as Jarchi, in which oil was used: this is a hyperbolical expression, as Kimchi rightly observes; suggesting that he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 6:8

He hath showed me, O man, what is good ,.... This is not the answer of the prophet to the body of the people, or to any and every one of the people of Israel; but of Balaam to Balak, a single man, that consulted with him, and put questions to him; particularly what he should do to please the Lord, and what righteousness he required of him, that would be acceptable to him; and though he was a king, he was but a man, and he would have him know it that he was no more, and as such addresses... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 6:9

The Lord's voice crieth unto the city ,.... The Lord having bid his prophet call to the mountains and hills to hear his voice, and the prophet having obeyed his will, and the Lord having by him addressed his people Israel, and expostulated with them about their ingratitude, observing to them many instances of his goodness; here informs them, that this voice of his, whether in his prophet, or in his judgments, was directed to the city, either Samaria or Jerusalem, or both, and even to all the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 6:10

Are there yet the treasures of wickedness the house of the wicked ?.... There are; they continue there. This is the voice of the Lord by the prophet, and the language of the rod of correction to be heard, exposing the sins of the people, for which the Lord had a controversy with them; particularly their mammon of unrighteousness, the vast wealth, riches, and treasures, collected together by very wicked and unlawful ways and means; and which, instead of restoring them to the persons they had... 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

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