Micah 6:16

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
statutes	חֻקּ֣וֹת chu.Kot	H2708	an enactment · noun, common feminine plural construct
Omri	עָמְרִ֗י 'a.me.Ri	H6018	Omri · proper noun, a man's name
kept	וְיִשְׁתַּמֵּ֞ר ve.yish.ta.Mer	H8104	properly · conjunction + verb, hithpael, 3rd person masculine singular
works	מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה ma.'a.Seh	H4639	an action (good or bad) · noun, common masculine singular construct
house	בֵית veit-	H1004	a house (in the greatest variation of applications · noun, common masculine singular construct
Ahab	אַחְאָ֔ב 'ach.'Av	H256	Achab · proper noun, a man's name
walk	יָלַךְ yâlak	H3212	to walk (literally or figuratively)
counsels	בְּמֹֽעֲצוֹתָ֑ם be.mo.'a.tzo.Tam	H4156	a purpose · preposition + noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
make	תִּתִּ֨י ti.Ti	H5414	to give · verb, qal infinitive construct + pronominal suffix
desolation	לְשַׁמָּ֗ה le.sha.Mah	H8047	ruin · preposition + noun, common feminine singular absolute
inhabitants	וְיֹשְׁבֶ֙יהָ֙ ve.yo.she.Vei.ha	H3427	properly · conjunction + verb, qal active participle, masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
hissing	לִשְׁרֵקָ֔ה lish.re.Kah	H8322	a derision · preposition + noun, common feminine singular absolute
bear	תִּשָּֽׂאוּ ti.Sa.'u	H5375	to lift · verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural
reproach	וְחֶרְפַּ֥ת ve.cher.Pat	H2781	contumely · conjunction + noun, common feminine singular construct
people	עַמִּ֖י 'a.Mi	H5971	a people (as a congregated unit) · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Jeremiah 51:51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD’s h…
1 Kings 16:25-33 But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than all that were before him.
Psalms 44:13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Isaiah 25:8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take aw…
Jeremiah 7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, an…
1 Kings 21:25-26 But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
Jeremiah 19:8 And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues t…
1 Kings 9:8 And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD do…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Micah 6:9–end

God, having shown them how necessary it was that they should do justly, here shows them how plain it was that they had done unjustly; and since they submitted not to his controversy, nor went the right way to have it taken up, here he proceeds in it. Observe, I. How the action is entered against them, Mic 6:9. God speaks to the city, to Jerusalem, to Samaria. His voice cries to it by his servants the prophets who were to cry aloud and not spare. Note, The voice of the prophets is the Lord's voice, and that cries to the city, cries to the country. Doth not wisdom cry? Pro 8:1. When the sin of a city cries to God his voice cries against the city; and, when the judgments of God are coming upon…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Micah 6:16

statutes of Omri--the founder of Samaria and of Ahab's wicked house; and a supporter of Jeroboam's superstitions (Kg1 16:16-28). This verse is a recapitulation of what was more fully stated before, Judah's sin and consequent punishment. Judah, though at variance with Israel on all things else, imitated her impiety. works of . . . Ahab-- (Kg1 21:25-26). ye walk in their counsels--Though these superstitions were the fruit of their king's "counsels" as a master stroke of state policy, yet these pretexts were no excuse for setting at naught the counsels and will of God. that I should make thee a desolation--Thy conduct is framed so, as if it was thy set purpose "that I should make thee a d…

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Adam Clarke on Micah 6:16

The statutes of Omri are kept - Omri, king of Israel, the father of Ahab, was one of the worst kings the Israelites ever had; and Ahab followed in his wicked father's steps. The statutes of those kings were the very grossest idolatry. Jezebel, wife of the latter, and daughter of Ithobaal, king of Tyre, had no fellow on earth. From her Shakespeare seems to have drawn the character of Lady Macbeth; a woman, like her prototype, mixed up of tigress and fiend, without addition. Omri Ahab, and Jezebel, were the models followed by the Israelites in the days of this prophet. The inhabitants thereof a hissing - לשרקה lishrekah, "for a shriek;" because those who should see them should be both astonish…

Dictionary and topics

Ahab — Father’s brother. (1.) The son of Omri, whom he succeeded as the seventh king of Israel. His history is recorded in 1 Kings 16-22. His wife was Jezebel (q.v.), who exercised a very evil influence…
Company · EVIL — EVIL
Omri · . — .

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Micah 6:16

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Micah 6:9–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Micah 6:16

Adam Clarke on Micah 6:16

Dictionary and topics

Micah 6:16

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Micah 6:9–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Micah 6:16

Adam Clarke on Micah 6:16

Dictionary and topics

John Gill on Micah 6:16

John Calvin on Micah 6:16–end

Keil & Delitzsch on Micah 6:16–end

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Micah 6:16

Rashi on Micah 6:16