Charles Ellicott Commentary


Charles Ellicott Commentary
"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." — Micah 6:16 (ASV)
The statutes of Omri. —The people of Judah, instead of keeping the commandments of the Lord diligently, adopted the statutes of the house of Omri, the founder of the idolatrous dynasty of Ahab. They reproduced the sins of the northern kingdom, and their conduct was aggravated by the advantages granted to them. The greatness of their reproach should therefore be in proportion to the greatness of the glory which properly belonged to them as the people of God.