Miquéas 6:6

Almeida Revista e Corrigida

Com que me apresentarei ao SENHOR e me inclinarei ante o Deus Altssimo? Virei perante ele com holocaustos, com bezerros de um ano?

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
Com que me apresentarei ao SENHOR, e me inclinarei diante do Deus altssimo? Apresentar-me-ei diante dele com holocaustos, com bezerros de um ano?

Almeida Revista e Atualizada
Com que me apresentarei ao SENHOR e me inclinarei ante o Deus excelso? Virei perante ele com holocaustos, com bezerros de um ano?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Wherewith: 2 Samuel 21:3, Matthew 19:16, Luke 10:25, John 6:26, Acts 2:37, Acts 16:30, Romans 10:2, Romans 10:3

bow: Psalms 22:29, Psalms 95:6, Ephesians 3:14

the high: Genesis 14:18-22, Daniel 3:26, Daniel 4:9, Daniel 5:18, Daniel 5:21, Mark 5:7, Acts 16:17

with: Leviticus 1:3-17, Numbers 23:1-4, Numbers 23:14, Numbers 23:15, Numbers 23:29, Numbers 23:30, Hebrews 10:4-10

of a year old: Heb. sons of a year, Exodus 12:5

Reciprocal: Genesis 14:19 - high Genesis 22:12 - Lay Genesis 24:26 - General Leviticus 1:5 - kill 1 Samuel 6:2 - wherewith 1 Samuel 13:1 - reigned one year 1 Samuel 15:22 - Hath the Lord 1 Kings 3:4 - a thousand 2 Chronicles 35:9 - gave Psalms 46:4 - most Psalms 50:9 - General Psalms 56:2 - most Proverbs 21:3 - General Isaiah 29:1 - kill Isaiah 40:16 - nor Jeremiah 6:20 - To what Hosea 5:6 - go Hosea 6:6 - I desired Amos 5:22 - offer Jonah 1:11 - What Micah 6:1 - Arise Zechariah 7:7 - cried Matthew 9:13 - I will Matthew 11:28 - all Matthew 12:7 - I will Mark 12:33 - is more Hebrews 7:1 - the most

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherewith shall I come before the Lord,.... These are not the words of the people of Israel God had a controversy with, and now made sensible of their sin, and humbled for it; and willing to appease the Lord, and make it up with him at any rate; for there are such things proposed by them as do by no means suit with persons of such a character, nay, even suppose them to be hypocritical; and much less are they what were put into their mouths by the prophet to say, as some suggest; but they are the words of Balak king of Moab, which, and what follow, are questions he put to Balaam, who had told him that he could do nothing without the Lord, nor anything contrary to his word: now he asks what he must do to get the good will of this Lord; in what manner, and with what he must appear before him, serve and worship him, as the Targum; that so he might have an interest in him, and get him to speak a word to Balaam in his favour, and against Israel; see

Numbers 22:8;

[and] bow myself before the high God? the most high God, the God of gods, whose Shechinah or Majesty is in the high heavens, as the Targum: his meaning is, with what he should come, or bring with him, when he paid his homage and obeisance to him, by bowing his body or his knee before him; being willing to do it in the most acceptable manner he could:

shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? such as he had been used to offer on the high places of Baal to that deity. Sacrifices of this kind prevailed among the Heathens, which they had received by tradition from the times of Adam and Noah; see

Numbers 22:41.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wherewith shall I come before the Lord? - The people, thus arraigned, bursts in, as men do, with professions that they would be no more ungrateful; that they will do anything, everything - but what they ought. With them it shall be but “Ask and have.” They wish only to know, with what they shall come? They would be beforehand with Him, anticipating His wishes; they would, with all the submission of a creature, bow, prostrate themselves before God; they acknowledge His High Majesty, who dwelleth on high, the most High God, and would abase themselves before His lofty greatness, if they but knew, “how” or “wherewith.”

They would give of their best; sacrifices the choicest of their kind, which should be wholly His, whole-burnt-offerings, offered exactly according to the law, “bullocks of a year old” Leviticus 9:2-3; then too, the next choice offering, the rams; and these, as they were offered for the whole people on very solemn occasions, in vast multitudes, thousands or ten thousands ; the oil which accompanied the burnt sacrifice, should flow in rivers ; nay, more still; they would not withhold their sons, their first born sons, from God, part, as they were, of themselves, or any fruit of their own body.

They enhance the offering by naming the tender relation to themselves Deuteronomy 28:53. They would offer everything, (even what God forbade) excepting only what alone He asked for, their heart, its love and its obedience . The form of their offer contains this; they ask zealously, “with what shall I come.” It is an outward offering only, a thing which they would bring. Hypocritical eagerness! a sin against light. For to enquire further, when God has already revealed anything, is to deny that He has revealed it. It comes from the wish that He had not revealed what lie has revealed. : “whose, after he hath found the truth, discusseth anything further, seeketh a lie.” God had told them, long before, from the time that He made them His people, what he desired of them; So Micah answers,

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Micah 6:6. Wherewith shall I come before the Lord — Now the people, as defendants, appear; but instead of vindicating themselves, or attempting to dispute what has been alleged against them, they seem at once to plead guilty; and now anxiously inquire how they shall appease the wrath of the Judge, how they shall make atonement for the sins already committed.

Bow myself before the high God — They wish to pray, and to make supplication to their Judge; but how shall they come before him? They have no right to come into his presence. Some offering must be brought; but of what kind, or of what value? Their sin is unprecedented, and usual methods of access will not avail. They are distracted in their minds, and make a variety of proposals to themselves, some rational, some absurd and impossible, and some even sinful.

Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings — This is reasonable, and according to the law; but this will be insufficient.