Micah 6:16

For the statutes of Omri are kept -Rather, (like the English margin he doth much keep,) And he doth keep diligently for himself. Both ways express much diligence in evil . To “keep God’s commandments” was the familiar phrase, in which Israel was exhorted, by every motive of hope and fear, to obedience to God. “I know him,” God says of Abraham, “that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do judgment and justice”Genesis 18:19. This was the fundamental commandment immediately after the deliverance from Eyypt upon their first murmuring.