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Verse Micah 6:15. _THOU SHALT SOW, BUT THOU SHALT NOT REAP_] Thou
shalt labour to amass property, but thou shalt not have God's
blessing; and whatever thou collectest, thy enemies shall carry away.
An...
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THOU SHALT SOW, BUT THOU SHALT NOT REAP - Micah renews the
threatenings of the law Leviticus 26:16; Deuteronomy 28:30,
Deuteronomy 28:38, which they had been habitually breakin
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THE THIRD PROPHETIC DISCOURSE (6-7)
CHAPTER 6
_ 1. The words of Jehovah to His people (Micah 6:1) _
2. Israel's answer (Micah 6:6)
3. The moral demands of Jehovah (Micah 6:8)
4. The Lord must jud...
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COMMERCIAL DISHONESTY AND ITS PUNISHMENT. This rather corrupt passage
is quite distinct from Micah 6:1. It may have been written by Micah,
and forms a parallel to his denunciation of agrarian dishones...
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THOU SHALT SOW, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:38).
SWEET WINE. Hebrew. _tirosh._ App-27.
WINE. Hebrew. _yayin._ App-27....
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_IDOLATRY DESTROYED THE NATION -- MICAH 6:12-16:_ God levied some
serious charges against the rich. The charges were made not because
they were rich but because of how they obtained the wealth. He sai...
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GOD'S JUSTICE DEMANDS THE WICKED BE PUNISHED. Micah 6:9-16
RV. The voice of Jehovah crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom
will see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it. Are
there...
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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.
THOU SHALL SOW, BUT THOU SHALL NOT REAP - fu...
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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 facts...
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SWEET WINE] RV 'vintage.' 'Thou shaft tread the grapes, but shalt not
drink the wine made from them.'...
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MICAH SPEAKS A MESSAGE FROM GOD TO ALL THE NATIONS
MICAH
_LES PAINTER_
CHAPTER 6
SECTION 3
6:1-7:20 THIRD SERIES OF *PROPHECIES. GOD WILL FORGIVE THE *REMNANT OF
HIS PEOPLE
6:1-8 MICAH ACCUSES *...
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Micah begins to make it clear how the people’s *sins in *Israel will
affect everyone. The people are guilty of various crimes. God makes
his decisions. The punishments will suit (match) the crimes. Ot...
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THOU SHALT TREAD THE OLIVES — _i.e._, as wheat upon the
threshing-floor. Oil was regarded as indispensable for personal
comfort. In Jotham’s parable of the trees in council about the
choice of a king,...
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אַתָּ֥ה תִזְרַ֖ע וְ לֹ֣א תִקְצֹ֑ור
אַתָּ֤ה תִ
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THE SIN OF THE SCANT MEASURE
Micah 6:9; Micah 7:1
THE state of the text of Micah 6:9; Micah 7:1 is as confused as the
condition of society which it describe
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“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
mountains,...
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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 p...
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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, and so was Ahab, his son; both transgressors before t...
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Lectures on the Minor Prophets.
W. Kelly.
The prophecy of Micah, like all the rest, has its own distinctive
properties, though falling into the general current of testimony to
Israel, and so far with...
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The Prophet adds another kind of punishment, which was to follow the
calamity threatened in the last verse. He had said, that those who
escaped would at length be destroyed by the sword; he says now,...
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After having thus declared the counsels of God in grace, the Spirit
returns to His pleadings with Israel in respect of their moral
condition, calling the whole earth as audience to hear His
controvers...
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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 remove...
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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.
Ver. 15. _Thou shall sow, but thou shalt not r...
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_Therefore will I make thee sick in smiting thee _
Therefore, upon account of these thy sins, I will, ere long, so smite
thee, O Israel, that the strokes shall reach thy heart, and make thee
sick unto...
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Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap, the enemy either destroying
or robbing the crop; THOU SHALT TREAD THE OLIVES, BUT THOU SHALT NOT
ANOINT THEE WITH OIL, since the enemy would plunder the stores...
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A THREAT OF PUNISHMENT...
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9-16 God, having showed how necessary it was that they should do
justly, here shows how plain it was that they had done unjustly. This
voice of the Lord says to all, Hear the rod when it is coming, b...
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THOU SHALT SOW, be at great pains and cost in tilling and sowing, BUT
THOU SHALT NOT REAP; it shall either not thrive to a harvest, or, if
it does, an enemy shall reap it. THOU SHALT TREAD THE OLIVES,...
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THE PROPHET NOW REINFORCES HIS WORDS BY CALLING FOR THEIR RESPONSE AND
EMPHASISING THEIR FAILURES AND WHAT WILL RESULT FROM THEM (MICAH 6:9).
Although YHWH pleads with His people they still walk in t...
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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: «Hear...
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CONTENTS: Jehovah's controversy with Israel's past and present.
CHARACTERS: God, Omri, Ahab, Balak, Balaam.
CONCLUSION: God issues a challenge to all who have ever professed
belief in Him, but have w...
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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 hearken...
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_Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap _
USELESS LABOUR
Mark the vexation of it--sowing and not reaping; sowing, and somebody
else reaping.
Here is the uncontrollable element in life. A man says,...
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MICAH 6:1 The Lord’s Indictment and Restoration of His People. The
Lord’s indictment against his people is delivered (Micah 6:1), and
the crisis within the covenantal relationship is described ...
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MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 6:14 YOU SHALL SOW, BUT NOT REAP. Human activity
is useless without God’s blessing. This is God’s sentence against
his people for their sin (compare...
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
MICAH 6:13. SICK] _i.e._ I smite thee mortally (cf. for expression,
Nahum 3:19; for matter, Micah 1:9).
Micah 6:14. Satis.
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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; REPENTANCE IS THE ONLY...
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Hear ye now what the LORD says; Arise, contend thou before the
mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. Hear ye, O mountains, the
LORD'S controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for th...
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Amos 5:11; Deuteronomy 28:38; Haggai 1:6; Isaiah 62:8; Isaiah 62:9;...
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Thou shalt not reap — An enemy shall reap it. Sweet wine — Thou
shalt tread the grapes which afford sweet wine....