Miquéas 6:7

Almeida Revista e Corrigida

Agradar-se- o SENHOR de milhares de carneiros? De dez mil ribeiros de azeite? Darei o meu primognito pela minha transgresso? O fruto do meu ventre, pelo pecado da minha alma?

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
Agradar-se- o SENHOR de milhares de carneiros, ou de dez mil ribeiros de azeite? Darei o meu primognito pela minha transgresso, o fruto do meu ventre pelo pecado da minha alma?

Almeida Revista e Atualizada
Agradar-se- o SENHOR de milhares de carneiros, de dez mil ribeiros de azeite? Darei o meu primognito pela minha transgresso, o fruto do meu corpo, pelo pecado da minha alma?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

pleased: 1 Samuel 15:22, Psalms 10:8-13, Psalms 50:9, Psalms 51:16, Isaiah 1:11-15, Isaiah 40:16, Jeremiah 7:21, Jeremiah 7:22, Hosea 6:6, Amos 5:22

rivers: Job 29:6

shall: Judges 11:31, Judges 11:39, 2 Kings 3:27, 2 Kings 16:3, 2 Kings 21:6, 2 Kings 23:10, Jeremiah 7:31, Jeremiah 19:5, Ezekiel 16:20, Ezekiel 16:21, Ezekiel 23:37

body: Heb. belly, Philemon 1:12

Reciprocal: Genesis 22:2 - and offer Genesis 42:37 - Slay my Deuteronomy 12:31 - even their sons 2 Samuel 21:3 - wherewith 1 Kings 3:4 - a thousand 1 Kings 8:63 - a sacrifice 1 Kings 18:28 - cut themselves 2 Chronicles 7:5 - a sacrifice 2 Chronicles 28:3 - burnt Isaiah 29:1 - kill Hosea 5:6 - go Jonah 1:11 - What Micah 6:1 - Arise John 6:28 - What Hebrews 13:16 - with such

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,.... If single burnt offerings of bullocks and heifers will not do, will rams, and thousands of them, be acceptable to him? if they will, they are at his service, even as many as he pleases; such creatures, as well as oxen, were offered by Balak, Numbers 23:1;

[or] with ten thousands of rivers of oil? for meat offerings, as Jarchi, in which oil was used: this is a hyperbolical expression, as Kimchi rightly observes; suggesting that he was willing to be at any expenses, even the most extravagant, if he could but gain his point, and get the God of Israel on his side. Some render it, "ten thousands of fat valleys" d; abounding with corn, and wine, and oil; the produce of which, had he so many, he could freely part with, could he but obtain his end; see Job 20:17;

shall I give my firstborn [for] my transgression, the fruit of my body [for] the sin of my soul? his Son, his firstborn, his own flesh and blood, to make atonement for his sins and transgressions; this betrays the person speaking. The people of Israel, though they were sometimes guilty of this horrid, unnatural, and abominable sin, in the height of their degeneracy and apostasy, as to sacrifice their children to Moloch; yet when convinced of their sins, and humbling themselves before God for them, even though but in a hypocritical way, could never be so weak and foolish, so impious and audacious, as to propose that to God, which they knew was so contrary to his will, and so abominable in his sight, Leviticus 18:21; but this comes well enough from a Heathen prince, with whom it was the, height of his devotion and religion, and the greatest sacrifice he thought he could offer up to God; for there is a climax, a gradation in the words from lesser things to greater; and this is the greatest of all, and what was done among the Heathens,

2 Kings 17:31; and was afterwards done by a king of Moab, 2 Kings 3:26.

d ברבבות נחלי שמן "in decem millibus vallium pinguium", Munster.

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 6:7. Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams — These might be procured, though with difficulty; but conscience says neither will these do.

With ten thousands of rivers of oil — This is absurd and impossible; but could even these be procured, could they all make atonement for such guilt, and ingratitude, and rebellion?

Shall I give my first-born for my transgression — This was sinful and wicked; but such offerings had been made by the Phoenicians, and their successors the Carthaginians; and this very custom was copied by the corrupt Israelites. See some cases of such offerings, 2 Kings 3:27; Leviticus 20:27.

The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? — This clause is an explanation of the former. Shall I make the first-born, the best and goodliest of my children, חטאת chattath, a SIN-OFFERING for my soul? And thus the original is used in a multitude of places.

When they had put all these questions to their reason and conscience, they found no satisfaction; their distraction is increased, and despair is about to take place, when Jehovah, the plaintiff, in his mercy interposes: