Micah 6:6 KJV — MannaFest

Micah 6:6

Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?

KJV

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ASV

Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves a year old?

WEB

With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?

YLT

With what do I come before Jehovah? Do I bow to God Most High? Do I come before Him with burnt-offerings? With calves--sons of a year?

DBT

Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, bow myself before the highGod? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves of a year old?

About this book

Old Testament

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Micah — A prophet of rural Moresheth — contemporary of Isaiah — preaching judgment on Jerusalem and Samaria. Bethlehem named as Messiah's birthplace. And the Bible's clearest summary of what the LORD requires.

Author: Micah the Morasthite (1:1) — from Moresheth-Gath in the Judean lowlands
Date: c. 740–700 BC, during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah

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52 verses on the floor

1 Samuel 15:22
And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
Matthew 9:13
But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Matthew 11:28
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Proverbs 21:3
To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Matthew 12:7
But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

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The work of ministers is to explain the providences of God and to quicken and direct men to learn the lessons that are taught by them. What is the ground of the action, and what are the things that are laid to their charge. They are charged with injustice, a sin against the second table.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

All the proposals of peace but those that are according to the gospel are absurd. One stream of the blood of Christ is worth ten thousand rivers of oil. (2.) Some of them are wicked things, as to give our first-born and the fruit of our body to death, which would but add to the transgression and the sin of the soul.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

He calls upon them to hear the voice of his judgments, and sets the sins in order before them for which he still proceeded in his controversy with them (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Though the worship of idols is enacted by the statutes of Omri, recommended by the practice of the house of Ahab, and pleads that it has been the usage of many generations, yet it is still displeasing to God and destructive to Israel; for no laws nor customs are of force against the divine command. What is the judgment given upon this.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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