Micah 6:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

Micah 6:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wherewith shall I come before the Lord? - The people, thus arraigned, bursts in, as men do, with professions that they would be no more ungrateful; that they will do anything, everything - but wh...

Micah 6:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, [or] with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my (f) firstborn [for] my transgression, the fruit of my body [for] the sin of my soul? (f) Th...

Micah 6:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Popular v. Prophetic Religion. The classical summary of prophetic religion in Micah 6:8 is introduced by the figure frequently employed ( Hosea 4:1 ; Hosea 12:2 ; Isaiah 3:13 ; Isaiah 43:26...

Micah 6:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Will... ? shall I... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. transgression . rebellion, insubordination. Hebrew. pasha'. App-44. the fruit of my body . my firstborn. sin. Hebrew. chata'. A...

Micah 6:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Micah 6:7 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1213 THE SUM OF PRACTICAL RELIGION Micah 6:6-8 . Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves...

Micah 6:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? Will the Lo...

Micah 6:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Of rivers of oil— Of fatted sheep. Houbigant. The LXX read, Fat kids. It was usual with the Phoenicians, in great dangers, to offer to their gods the dearest of their children. See 2 Kings 3:2...

Micah 6:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? Will the...

Micah 6:7 - 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...

Micah 6:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The fruit of my body. — Will God require the sacrifice of such a precious possession, as Isaac was to Abraham, to atone for my wrong-doing? There may possibly be an allusion to human sacrifices, su...

Micah 6:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE REASONABLENESS OF TRUE RELIGION Micah 6:1-8 WE have now reached a passage from which all obscurities of date and authorship disappear before the transparence and splendor of its contents. "...

Micah 6:7 - 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...

Micah 6:7 - 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...

Micah 6:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

This is that memorable passage in scripture which hath given rise to numberless opinions, both in the moral and religious world, and by the perversion of it, untaught by God the Holy Ghost, hath prod...

Micah 6:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...

Micah 6:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, [or] with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn [for] my transgression, the fruit of my body [for] the sin of my soul? Ver. 7....

Micah 6:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Wherewith shall I come before the Lord After the preceding reproof of the people's ingratitude, they are here introduced as anxiously inquiring how they may propitiate God's displeasure, and avert...

Micah 6:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Anxiety Respecting the Divine Favour. B. C. 710.       6 Wherewith shall I come before the L...

Micah 6:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams? the law did direct the offering of rams, single beasts for single sacrifices; if this be too little, they shall be multiplied, we will give many, ve...

Micah 6:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Micah Now Calls On Creation To Witness YHWH's Case Against Israel, And Finishes By Stating YHWH's Requirements. ( Micah 6:1-8 ) Knowing that the people might be puzzled as to why YHWH should treat...

Micah 6:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES .] Micah 6:3 . What ] opens the suit. Israel, tired with the dealings of God, had backslided from him. Wearied] By demanding what is irksome ( Isaiah 43:23 ; 1 John 5:3 ); or...

Micah 6:7 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Micah 6:6-8 Many and various, in all ages, have been the answers to this question, but in spirit and principle they reduce themselves to the three which in these verses are tacitly rejected, that...

Micah 6:7 - 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...

Micah 6:7 - 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...

Micah 6:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

Wherewith shall I come before the Lord Pleasing God This is a momentous question, which the world has ever been asking--“How shall we approach God? ” For men feel that they are separated from...

Micah 6:7 - 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 ;...

Micah 6:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Call to Repentance

Micah 6:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 15:22 ; 2 Kings 16:3 ; 2 Kings 21:6 ; 2 Kings 23:10 ; 2 Kings 3:27 ; Amos 5:22 ; Ezekiel 16:20 ; Ezekiel 16:21 ; Ezekiel 23:37 ; Hosea 6:6 ; Isaiah 1:11-15 ; Isaiah 40:16 ; Jere...

Micah 6:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Thousands — Ever so many. Ten thousands of rivers — Were it possible to give them.