Micah 2:5
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the measuring line upon a lot, in the congregation of Jehovah.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.
In Context
6Prophesy ye not, they prophesy. If they do not prophesy to these, the ignominy will not depart.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 23:8Children that are born to them shall come into the congregation of Jehovah in the third generation.
Joshua 18:4Provide you three men for a tribe; that I may send them, and they shall rise and go through the land, and describe it according to the proportion of their inheritance, and they shall come to me.
2 Kings 17:23until Jehovah had removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said through all his servants the prophets; and Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria, unto this day.
Nehemiah 7:61And these are they that went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub-Addon and Immer; but they could not shew their father's house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.
Hosea 9:3They shall not dwell in Jehovah's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and in Assyria shall they eat that which is unclean.
Matthew Henry on Micah 2:2-6
The Sins of the People. ( b. c. 740.) 1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. 2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. 3 Therefore thus saith the Lord ; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is… Read the whole commentary →