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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Micah 6 This chapter contains reproofs of the people of Israel for their sins, threatening them with punishment for them. The prophet is bid to tell them of the controversy the Lord had with them, which he did, Micah 6:1; and the Lord calls upon them to declare if they had any thing to object to his attitude towards them, Micah 6:3; and then puts them in mind of the favours they...
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 Israelites, in the times of the prophet, though at the...
Matthew Henry
After the precious promises in the two foregoing chapters, relating to the Messiah's kingdom, the prophet is here directed to set the sins of Israel in order before them, for their conviction and humiliation, as necessary to make way for the comfort of gospel-grace. Christ's forerunner was a reprover, and preached repentance, and so prepared his way. Here, I. God enters an action against his...
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; and these people followed his evil example....