Micah 2:5

Therefore, you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by lot.

Berean Standard Bible

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

4In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ‘We are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.’”

6“Do not preach,” they preach. “Do not preach these things; disgrace will not overtake us.”

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 23:8The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.

Joshua 18:4Appoint three men from each tribe, and I will send them out to survey the land and map it out, according to the inheritance of each. Then they will return to me

2 Kings 17:23Finally, the LORD removed Israel from His presence, as He had declared through all His servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their homeland into Assyria, where they are to this day.

Nehemiah 7:61The following came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but could not prove that their families were descended from Israel:

Hosea 9:3They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.

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 →

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