Hosea 12:7; Proverbs 16:11
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 the...
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...
them. Supply [her]: i.e. the wicked city. the wicked balances. Hebrew balances of wickedness. Reference to Pentateuch ( Deuteronomy 25:13-16 )....
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...
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
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 ....
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 pur...
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...
Shall I count them pure] RV 'shall I be pure,' i.e. can any man be pure? 13 . RV 'Therefore I also have smitten thee with a grievous wound.'
Shall I count them pure ? — Rather, Can I be innocent with the deceitful balances? The enactments about weights were very stringently expressed in...
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...
“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...
This closing section is dramatic and magnificent. The prophet summoned Israel and the mountains to hear the controversy of Jehovah with His people. T...
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, an...
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,...
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 balanc...
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness , &c. Notwithstanding all the express laws, the exhortations and reproofs given you upon this subject,...
Accusations and Threatenings. B. C. 710. ...
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...
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 )....
CRITICAL NOTES .] Micah 6:10 . Yet ] notwithstanding warnings, treasures acquired by fraud and oppression. Scant] Lit. lean ephah, the measure...
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...
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 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 bri...
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:...
A Threat of Punishment
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, when they were daily cheating in trade and business, and with the bag of deceitful weights? with...
Count them pure — Approve, or acquit then as if they were righteous.
11 Shall I count them purec with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?