Matthew Poole and continuators on Micah 6:16

16 ¶ 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 .

Of which you read, 1 King. 16.25, 26, 27, 28. He built Samaria to be a Royal City, and Seat of Religion, brought in by Ieroboam; thus he both strengthened, and put more credit upon the Idolatrous Worship which was set up by Omri in a Royal City, whereas by Ieroboam 'twas set up in places of meaner account.

Diligently very much.

Sum'd up, in establishing Ieroboam's Idolatry, introducing the Idolatrous Worship of Baal, 1 Kings 16.31, 32, 33. cutting off the Prophets of the Lord, 1 Kings 18.4. and 19.10, 14. and abolishing the true Worship of God; besides the barbarous contriving the death of the innocent, and siezing the Estate▪ 1 King. 21.8.9. &c.

Of the house of Israel, though under the Government of Families, which had no great reason to value the house of Ahab, yet you have done their works of Idolatry and Oppression, and you also of the house of Iudah, have degenerated and done like their works.

Literally fulfilled in Iehoram's Reign, Acts and Counsels, 2 Kings 8.17, 18. and in Ahaziah's, who was Son of Iehoram, and Grandson of Iehoshaphat, 2 Kings 8 27. and so did Iehu, and his Successours, all persist in the Idolatry of the Calf-Worship, and in oppression of the poor; thus instead of walking humbly with God, they did openly depart from him, contrary to what God required of them.

Eventually this was the end, or in necessary tendency it could not end otherwise, though they did not intend this, nor did God will them to do so, that it might so end.

An utter waste, such as should astonish those that saw it.

Of the City or Land.

In token of abhorrence and derision, Deut. 28.37. Ier. 25.9, 18. and 29.18.

The reproach threatened in the Law, if my people forsake me, or Ierusalem shall be as much reproacht as Samaria, or as Ezek. 36.20.

Marginal references: Or, he doth much keep the &c.; Or, astonishment.