Micah 6:16

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Micah 6:16

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Summary

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.

The statutes of omri are kept

1 Kings 16:25

Hosea 5:11

The works

Revelation 2:20

Ye walk

Psalm 1:1

Jeremiah 7:24

That

Ezekiel 8:17

Therefore

General references

Job 34:30

Isaiah 17:9

Hosea 7:3

Bible References

The statutes of omri are kept

Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord, and acted more wickedly than all who were before him.

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment,

Because he was determined to follow man’s command.

The works

Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord

more than all who were before him.

for when Jezebel destroyed the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water.)

Surely there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the Lord, because Jezebel his wife incited him.

But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and even made his son pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord had driven out from before the sons of Israel.

For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

For those who guide this people are leading them astray;

And those who are guided by them are brought to confusion.

But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads My bond-servants astray so that they commit acts of immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.

Ye walk

How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,
Nor stand in the

path of sinners,

Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!

Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and

went backward and not forward.

That

And this house will become

a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by will be astonished and hiss and say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’

Therefore the wrath of the Lord was against Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, of horror, and of hissing, as you see with your own eyes.

Because they have forsaken Me and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore My wrath will be poured out on this place and it shall not be quenched.”’

‘For My people have forgotten Me,

They burn incense to worthless gods

And they have stumbled from their ways,

From the ancient paths,

To walk in bypaths,
Not on a highway,

I will also make this city a desolation and an object of hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its disasters.

“You shall also say to this people, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they have committed here, that they have filled the land with violence and provoked Me repeatedly? For behold, they are putting the twig to their nose.

Therefore

You make us a reproach to our neighbors,
A scoffing and a derision to those around us.

He will swallow up death for all time,
And the Lord God will wipe tears away from all faces,
And He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth;
For the Lord has spoken.

We are ashamed because we have heard reproach;

Disgrace has covered our faces,
For aliens have entered
The holy places of the Lord’s house.

Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us;
Look, and see our reproach!

They will

forget their disgrace and all their treachery which they perpetrated against Me, when they live securely on their own land with no one to make them afraid.

O Lord, in accordance with all Your righteous acts, let now Your anger and Your wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a reproach to all those around us.

General references

So that godless men would not rule
Nor be snares of the people.

In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken places in the forest,
Or like branches which they abandoned before the sons of Israel;
And the land will be a desolation.

With their wickedness they make the king glad,

And the princes with their lies.