Micah 6:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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 ungratefu...

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...

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...

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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...

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 frui...

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 go...

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 frui...

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 betw...

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 m...

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 befor...

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 o...

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. T...

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 perversio...

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 the...

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 frui...

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...

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Anxiety Respecting the Divine Favour. B. C. 710....

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 littl...

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 p...

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...

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...

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 Sc...

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 peop...

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...

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:...

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Call to Repentance

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? which, as it were, would flow in torrents in order to appease...

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 ; H...

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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