Micah 6:11 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹¹Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

Micah 6:11 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hosea 12:7
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
Leviticus 19:36
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Proverbs 16:11
A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.

Topics

Cheating Dishonesty Embezzlement Fraud Graces Honesty Injustice Integrity

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-16)

God, having shown them how necessary it was that they should do justly, here shows them how plain it was that they had done unjustly; and since they submitted not to his controversy, nor went the right way to have it taken up, here he proceeds in it. Observe, I. How the action is entered against them, Mic. 6:9. God speaks to the city, to Jerusalem, to Samaria. His voice cries to it by his servants…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 11)

11. Shall I count them pure--literally, “Shall I be pure with?” &c. With the pure God shows Himself pure; but with the froward God shows Himself froward (Psa 18:26). Men often are changeable in their judgments. But God, in the case of the impure who use “wicked balances,” cannot be pure, that is, cannot deal with them as He would with the pure. Vatablus and Henderson make the “I” to be “any one”;…