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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? Here he comes to practical details. In Micah’s day, men had grown rich by oppression, by a want of justice; they had wronged their fellow men, and God asked them whether they expected to be pleasing to him when their houses were full of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 persons that used false scales or balances; or justify and reckon them just, as they would be thought to be, but condemn them, and pronounce them very...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. They were, I suppose, very much what Orientals are still; you cannot trade with them without having need of more than two...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For the rich men thereof are full of violence,.... That is, the rich men of the city, to whom the voice of the Lord cried, Micah 6:9. Jerusalem or Samaria, or any or all the cities of Israel and Judah; the rich men of these cities, who had enough of the world, and were under no temptation to do an ill thing, to get money; and yet their hands and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee,.... With the rod to be heard, Micah 6:9; by sending among them some of his sore judgments, as famine, pestilence, the sword of the enemy, internal wars, and the like; which should cause their kingdom, and state, and families, to decline and waste away, as a sickly and diseased body. So the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins. They lied, and they cheated; so God would give them a sorry tongue, betokening their ill-health. He would make their present distress to get worse and worse, till they should be sick through their wounds.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied,.... Either not having enough to eat, for the refreshing and satisfying of nature; or else a blessing being withheld from food, though eaten, and so not nourishing; or a voracious and insatiable appetite being given as a curse; the first sense seems best: and thy casting down [shall be] in the midst of thee;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; The satisfaction that comes to us through eating is of his mercy, and when he wills, he can say, “Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied.” Mic_6:14. And thy casting down shall he in the midst of thee; “Thou shalt feel an inward sinking; even when thou hast eaten, thou shalt be faint, as a man who has eaten...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou shall sow, but thou shalt not reap,.... Either that which is sown shall not spring up, but rot in the earth; or if it does spring up, and come to maturity, yet, before that, they should be removed into captivity, or slain by the sword, and their enemies should reap the increase of their land, their wheat and their grain: thou shall tread the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine. God can let men have every form of outward prosperity, and yet make nothing of it. I fear that some, perhaps some present, have every outward religious blessing; yet nothing comes of it. You hear...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For the statutes of Omri are kept,.... Who of a captain of the army was made king of Israel, and proved a wicked prince; he built Samaria, and set up idolatrous worship there, after the example of Jeroboam, in whose ways he walked, and, as it seems, established the same by laws and edicts; and which were everyone of them observed by the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the statutes of Omri are kept, They would not keep the statutes of God; but they could keep the foul statutes of Omri, which appear to have been specially objectionable to God. Mic_6:16. And all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; He was an arch rebel against God. Remember his murder of Naboth to get his vineyard;...