Micah 6:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Shall I count them purec with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? ”

• Micah 6:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Shall I count them pure? - Rather, (as the English margin) “Shall I be pure?” The prophet takes for the time their person and bids them judge themselves in him. If it would defile me, how are ye,...

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• Micah 6:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Commercial Dishonesty and its Punishment. This rather corrupt passage is quite distinct from Micah 6:1-8 . It may have been written by Micah, and forms a parallel to his denunciation of agrarian d...

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• Micah 6:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  them. Supply [her]: i.e. the wicked city. the wicked balances. Hebrew balances of wickedness. Reference to Pentateuch ( Deuteronomy 25:13-16 ). App-92.

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• Micah 6:11 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  Shall I justify? etc. (174) This verse is connected with the last, and is added as an explanation. For God having come forth as a Judge, now shows what sort of Judge he is, even one who is n...

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• Micah 6:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

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• Micah 6:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Shall I count them pure, &c.— Shall I use the wicked balance, and the stones of deceitful weight, that I may absolve this city. Micah 6:12 . Whose rich men are full, &c. Houbigant.

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• Micah 6:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? Shall I count them pure - literally, 'Shall I be pure with,' etc. With the pure, God shows Himself pur...

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• Micah 6:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  God's Arraignment of His people 1-8. Micah's message to the discouraged believers. They have lost heart because of the apparent contradiction between the promises of their prophets and the hard fa...

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• Micah 6:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Shall I count them pure ? — Rather, Can I be innocent with the deceitful balances? The enactments about weights were very stringently expressed in the Law, both affirmatively and negatively: e.g....

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• Micah 6:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE SIN OF THE SCANT MEASURE Micah 6:9-16 ; Micah 7:1-6 THE state of the text of Micah 6:9-16 ; Micah 7:1-6 is as confused as the condition of society which it describes: it is difficult to...

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• Micah 6:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “What Doth the Lord Require of Thee?” Micah 6:1-16 In Micah 6:1-4 the prophet returns from his vision of the future to the actual condition of his people, which was utterly desperate. The mou...

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• Micah 6:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  This closing section is dramatic and magnificent. The prophet summoned Israel and the mountains to hear the controversy of Jehovah with His people. The key-word is "Jehovah... will plead." From that...

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• Micah 6:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  These expressions are all directed to one and the same end, namely, to teach Israel the enormity of his transgressions. Omri was a king in Israel, and so was Ahab, his son; both transgressors before...

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• Micah 6:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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...

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• Micah 6:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Shall I count [them] pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? Ver. 11. Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances? ] Shall I clear and acquit such? I that am the...

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• Micah 6:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Are there yet the treasures of wickedness , &c. Notwithstanding all the express laws, the exhortations and reproofs given you upon this subject, and so many examples of punishment set before you...

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• Micah 6:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Accusations and Threatenings. B. C. 710.       9 The L ORD 's voice crieth unto the city, an...

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• Micah 6:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Shall I? it may have some reference to the prophet, as speaking of himself, appointed of God to be a reprover and impartial censurer of the sins of this people; When I am so to judge of them by the...

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• Micah 6:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Prophet Now Reinforces His Words By Calling For Their Response And Emphasising Their Failures And What Will Result From Them ( Micah 6:9-16 ). Although YHWH pleads with His people they still w...

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• Micah 6:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES .] Micah 6:10 . Yet ] notwithstanding warnings, treasures acquired by fraud and oppression. Scant] Lit. lean ephah, the measure forbidden (too small), not the right measure ( De...

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• Micah 6:11 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Micah 6:1 . Hear ye now what the LORD saith; And yet some doubt the infallible inspiration of Scripture. I would commence every reading of the Scripture with such a word of admonition as this: «H...

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• Micah 6:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Micah 6:5 . Oh my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted. He went to Balaam the false prophet for advice; and both he and his people, and the prophet perished together. Had he hear...

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• Micah 6:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The scant measure which is abomination Civic sins In these verses we have a sample of the crimes which abound in the city, and which would bring on the threatened judgment. I. Their variety...

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• Micah 6:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Verse 6:1-7:20 Part III . In this address, which is later than the preceding parts, the prophet sets forth the way of salvation: PUNISHMENT IS THE CONSEQUENCE OF SIN ;...

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• Micah 6:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  A Threat of Punishment

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• Micah 6:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Hosea 12:7 ; Proverbs 16:11

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• Micah 6:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Count them pure — Approve, or acquit then as if they were righteous.

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