Micah 6:16

The regulations made by Omri have been kept, 1 and all the deeds of the house of Ahab. 1 You walk by their advice. 1 So I will make you, city, a ruin, 1 and you inhabitants an object of hissing, 1 and you will bear the reproach of my people.” + 6:16 The Hebrew text has you will bear the reproach of my people , but an ancient Greek version has you will bear the scorn of the nations . Some modern versions follow this reading.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

15You will sow but not reap; 1 you will tread the olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; 1 you will press grapes but drink no wine. 1

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Cross References

1 Kings 9:8This temple will become a heap of ruins, and everyone who passes by it will be shocked and will hiss. They will ask, 'Why has Yahweh done this to this land and to this house?'

1 Kings 18:4for when Jezebel was killing the prophets of Yahweh, Obadiah took one hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.

2 Kings 16:3Instead, he walked in the way of the kings of Israel; indeed, he made his son pass through the fire, following the detestable practices of the nations, which Yahweh had driven out before the people of Israel.

2 Chronicles 22:4Ahaziah did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as the house of Ahab was doing, for they were his advisors after the death of his father, to his destruction.

2 Chronicles 34:25This will happen because they have forsaken me and have burned incense to other gods, and they have provoked me to anger by all that their hands have made, therefore, my anger will be poured out on this place, and it will not be extinguished.' + 34:25 Instead of will be poured out on this place , some versions have, will be kindled against this place .

Psalms 44:13You make us a rebuke to our neighbors, 1 scoffed and mocked by those around us. 1

Matthew Henry on Micah 6:10-16

Accusations and Threatenings. ( b. c. 710.) 9 The Lord 's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it. 10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? 11 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? 12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their… Read the whole commentary →

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