Micah 6:16
You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”
Note LXX; Hebrew scorn of My people
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.
Note For the…: or, For he doth much keep the, etc
Note desolation: or, astonishment
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of Ahab’s house. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and your inhabitants a hissing. You will bear the reproach of my people.”
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I may make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing: and ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- the statutes of Omri are kept
- or, he doth much keep the,etc.
- 1 Kings 16:25–30; Hosea 5:11
- the works
- 1 Kings 16:30–33; 1 Kings 18:4; 1 Kings 21:25, 26; 2 Kings 16:3; 2 Kings 21:3; Isaiah 9:16; Revelation 2:20
- ye walk
- Psalm 1:1; Jeremiah 7:24
- that
- 1 Kings 9:8; 2 Chronicles 29:8, 9; 2 Chronicles 34:25; Jeremiah 18:15, 16; Jeremiah 19:8; Jeremiah 21:8, 9; Ezekiel 8:17, 18
- desolation
- or, astonishment. therefore.
- Psalm 44:13; Isaiah 25:8; Jeremiah 51:51; Lamentations 5:1; Ezekiel 39:26; Daniel 9:16