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CHAPTER VI
_This chapter reproves and threatens. The manner of raising the_
_attention by calling on man to urge his plea in the face of all_
_nature, and on the inanimate creation to hear the expo...
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HEAR YE NOW WHAT THE LORD SAITH - If ye will not hear the rebuke of
man, hear now at last the word of God. “Arise thou, Micah.” The
prophet was not willing to be the herald of woe to his people; but h...
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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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POPULAR_ V._ PROPHETIC RELIGION. The classical summary of prophetic
religion in Micah 6:8 is introduced by the figure frequently employed
(Hosea 4:1; Hosea 12:2; Isaiah 3:13; Isaiah 43:26; Jeremiah 25...
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THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4....
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_THE LORD'S CHALLENGE TO HIS PEOPLE -- MICAH 6:1-5:_ God called upon
Israel to present any complaints that they might have against Him in
the presence of everyone. Micah moved from his prediction of t...
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HEAR YE NOW, &C.— This is a new discourse, addressed to the ten
tribes. The Lord commands the prophet to call Israel to judgment
before the mountains and the hills, and to receive the condemnation of...
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FORGOTTEN ACTS OF SALVATION. Micah 6:1-8
RV. Hear ye now what Jehovah saith: Arise, contend thou before the
mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. Hear, O ye mountains,
Jehovah's controversy, an...
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Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the
mountains, and let the hills hear thy Hear ye now what the LORD saith;
Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear...
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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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Here there is a change in the subject that Micah is writing about.
Micah leaves the message about the future (which was in Chapter s
4-5). He returns to *Israel’s present troubles. Verses 1 and 2 are...
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VI.
(1) HEAR YE NOW WHAT THE LORD SAITH. — The third portion of
Micah’s prophecy opens with a solemn appeal to Nature to hear the
Lord pleading with His people. A similar summons is found in
Deuteron...
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שִׁמְעוּ ־נָ֕א אֵ֥ת אֲשֶׁר ־יְהוָ֖ה
אֹמֵ֑ר ק֚וּם רִ֣יב אֶת ־הֶ הָרִ֔ים וְ
תִשְׁמַ֥עְנָה הַ...
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THE REASONABLENESS OF TRUE RELIGION
Micah 6:1
WE have now reached a passage from which all obscurities of date and
authorship disappear before the transparence and splendor of its
contents. "These f...
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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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Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the (a)
mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.
(a) He took the high mountains and hard rocks as witnesses against the
obstinacy of hi...
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_The mountains, &c. That is, the princes, the great ones of the
people. (Challoner) --- But Hebrew intimates real mountains, which had
witnessed the impiety of the people, (Calmet) and had been defile...
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CONTENTS
This is a beautiful Chapter, inasmuch as it sets forth the
graciousness of the Lord in his expostulations with Israel....
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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 wit...
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Here the Prophet avowedly assumes that the people were sufficiently
proved guilty; and yet they resisted through a hardiness the most
obdurate, and rejected all admonitions without shame, and without...
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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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HEAR YE NOW WHAT THE LORD SAITH,.... Here begins a new discourse, and
with an address of the prophet to the people of Israel, to hear what
the Lord had to say to them by way of reproof for their sins...
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Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the
mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.
Ver. 1. _Hear ye now what the Lord saith_] _Exordium breve est, sed
plane patheticum,_ sai...
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_Hear now what the Lord saith_ Here begins a new discourse, respecting
the causes of the evils which hung over the Jewish nation. _Arise_
This is God's command to Micah; _contend thou before the mount...
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Hear ye now what the Lord saith, in this closing address to the
Israelites, ARISE, CONTEND THOU BEFORE THE MOUNTAINS, the prophet
being called upon to be a witness of the judicial controversy which
wa...
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BEFORE:
Or, with...
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1-5 The people are called upon to declare why they were weary of God's
worship, and prone to idolatry. Sin causes the controversy between God
and man. God reasons with us, to teach us to reason with o...
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MICAH CHAPTER 6 God's controversy with his people for ingratitude,
MICAH 6:1. What service is acceptable to him, MICAH 6:6. He reproveth
them for their injustice, MICAH 6:10, and idolatry, MICAH 6:16....
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Micah 6:1 Hear H8085 (H8798) LORD H3068 says H559 (H8802) Arise H6965
(H8798) case H7378 (H8798) mountains H2022 hills H1389 hear H8085
(H8799) voice H6963
ye - Micah 1:2; 1 Samuel 15:16;...
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MICAH NOW CALLS ON CREATION TO WITNESS YHWH'S CASE AGAINST ISRAEL, AND
FINISHES BY STATING YHWH'S REQUIREMENTS. (MICAH 6:1)
Knowing that the people might be puzzled as to why YHWH should treat
His pe...
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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...
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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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_Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy
voice _
GOD’S CONTROVERSY WITH ISRAEL
In this text we have God offering to plead before the sinner.
The parties, who are they?...
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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 (Micah...
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CRITICAL NOTES.] The _third_ division now begins, after declaration of
judgment and salvation which awaits the future remnant. HEAR] Plead
with God in controversy. MTS.] Witness and murmur with the ec...
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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 ONL...
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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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1 Samuel 15:16; Amos 3:1; Deuteronomy 32:1; Deuteronomy 4:26; Ezekiel
36:1; Ezekiel 36:8; Ezekiel 37:4; Hebrews 3:7; Hebrews 3:8; Isaiah
1:2;...
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Arise — This is God's command to Micah. Contend thou — Argue the
case between God and thy people; and speak as if thou wouldst make the
mountains hear thee, to testify for me....