Micah 6:16

"For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I may make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing: and ye shall hear the reproach of my people."

"The statutes of Omri are kept ..." "All that is related of Omri in the Bible, is that he was worse than all of his predecessors!"[30] "No special statutes of his are anywhere mentioned; but he was the founder of that evil dynasty that gave Ahab to Israel and Athaliah (the murderess) to Judah."[31] She, Athaliah, was called "the daughter of Omri" (2 Kings 8:26). Of course, it was through those persons that the cult of Baal had been introduced in Israel, resulting, at last, in the total apostasy of the whole nation. This was dealt with extensively in the prophecy of Hosea, above.

"The chapter closes with the melancholy fact that Jehovah's law was despised."[32] In the light of this, one may plainly see that the questions asked by the people in Micah 6:6-7, were not at all the questions of sincere worshippers of Jehovah, but the quibbling efforts of the Baal-worshippers to justify their abominable paganism.

It is heartening indeed to find an admission by McKeating, a great scholar who often accepts critical views impossible for this writer to receive, that, after all, "There is nothing in Micah which might not belong to the eighth century!"[33] Indeed, there is not; and it is our conviction that every word of it belongs.