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Verse Micah 6:2. _HEAR YE, O MOUNTAINS_] Micah, as God's advocate,
summons this people into judgment, and makes an appeal to inanimate
creation against them. He had spoken to the priests, to the prin...
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HEAR, YE STRONG (OR, IT MAY BE, YE ENDURING,) FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH
- Mountains and rocks carry the soul to times far away, before and
after. They change net, like the habitable, cultivated, surfac...
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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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HEAR YE, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:1). App-92....
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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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DISCOURSE: 1212
GOD’S CONTROVERSY WITH HIS PEOPLE
Micah 6:2. _Hear ye, O mountains, the Lord’s controversy, and ye
strong foundations of the earth: for the Lord hath a controversy with
his people, an...
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AND YE STRONG FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH— _And ye valleys in the lower
parts of the earth._ Houbigant. Schultens has it, _Ye abiding,_—or
_everlasting foundations,_ &c. And instead of _testify against m...
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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, O mountains, the LORD's controversy, and ye strong
foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his
people, and he will plead with Israel.
HEAR YE, O MOUNTAINS, THE LORD...
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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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שִׁמְע֤וּ הָרִים֙ אֶת ־רִ֣יב יְהוָ֔ה
וְ הָ אֵתָנִ֖ים מֹ֣סְדֵי אָ֑רֶץ כִּ֣י
רִ֤יב לַֽ יהוָה֙...
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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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This seems a new Sermon of the Prophet's, opening at this Chapter. The
stile is as usual in the prophetic way. Not only the people are called
upon, but the inanimate part of the creation, to be witnes...
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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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_Hear, ye mountains, the controversy of Jehovah, _(161) how? _and ye
strong foundations of the earth, _he says. He speaks here no more of
hills, but summons the whole world; as though he said, “There...
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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, O MOUNTAINS, THE LORD'S CONTROVERSY, AND YE STRONG
FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH,.... These are the words of the prophet,
obeying the divine command, calling upon the mountains, which are the
stro...
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Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye strong
foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his
people, and he will plead with Israel.
Ver. 2. Hear ye, O mountains, the...
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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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A CALL TO REPENTANCE...
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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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HEAR YE, O MOUNTAINS: in the first verse God directs Micah to take the
mountains and hills for witnesses; now in this verse he doth call upon
those mountains to hear: it is a prosopoeia, an elegant pe...
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Micah 6:2 Hear H8085 (H8798) mountains H2022 LORDS H3068 complaint
H7379 strong H386 foundations H4146 earth H776 LORD H3068 complaint
H7379 people H5971 contend H3198 (H8691) Israel H3478
foundation...
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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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2 Samuel 22:16; 2 Samuel 22:8; Deuteronomy 32:22; Ezekiel 20:35;
Ezekiel 20:36; Hosea 12:2; Hosea 4:1; Isaiah 1:18; Isaiah 43:26;
Isaiah 5:3;
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Foundations of the earth — The mountains properly so called; the sin
of Israel is so notorious, that the whole creation may be summoned as
a witness against them....