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Micah 6:16

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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.

For the statutes {H2708} of Omri {H6018} are kept {H8104}, and all the works {H4639} of the house {H1004} of Ahab {H256}, and ye walk {H3212} in their counsels {H4156}; that I should make {H5414} thee a desolation {H8047}, and the inhabitants {H3427} thereof an hissing {H8322}: therefore ye shall bear {H5375} the reproach {H2781} of my people {H5971}.

For you keep the regulations of 'Omri and all the practices of the house of Ach'av, modeling yourselves on their advice. Therefore I will make you an object of horror, the inhabitants of this city a cause for contempt; you will suffer the insults aimed at my people."

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.”

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.

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Cross-References

  • Jeremiah 51:51 (5 votes)

    We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD'S house.

  • Jeremiah 7:24 (4 votes)

    But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels [and] in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

  • 1 Kings 16:25 (4 votes)

    But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than all that [were] before him.

  • 1 Kings 16:33 (4 votes)

    And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.

  • Psalms 44:13 (3 votes)

    Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

  • Isaiah 25:8 (3 votes)

    He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken [it].

  • Jeremiah 19:8 (3 votes)

    And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.