Micah 6:5-7
1599 Geneva Bible
5 O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab had devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, from [a]Shittim unto Gilgal, that ye may know the [b]righteousness of the Lord.
6 Wherewith [c]shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, and with calves of a year old?
7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousand rivers of oil? shall I give my [d]firstborn for my transgression, even the fruit of my body, for the sin of my soul?
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- Micah 6:5 That is, remember my benefits from the beginning how I delivered you from Balaam’s curse, and also spared you from Shittim, which was in the plain of Moab, till I brought you into the land promised.
- Micah 6:5 That is, the truth of his promise and his manifold benefits toward you.
- Micah 6:6 Thus the people by hypocrisy ask how to please God and are content to offer sacrifices, but will not change their lives.
- Micah 6:7 There is nothing so dear to man, but the hypocrites will offer it unto God, if they think thereby to avoid his anger: but they will never be brought to mortify their own affections, and to give themselves willingly to serve God as he commandeth.
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