Micah 2:5
Therefore shalt thou have none that shall draw the [measuring] cord in [his] lot in the congregation of the Lord.
Leeser Tanakh
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
Cross References
Deuteronomy 23:8(23:9) The children that are born unto them in the third generation, may enter of them into the congregation of the Lord.
Joshua 18:4Furnish for yourselves three men for each tribe; and I will send them out, and they shall arise, and walk through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance, and come again to me.
2 Kings 17:23Until that the Lord removed Israel out of his presence, as he had spoken by means of all his servants the prophets; and Israel was led away as exiles out of their own land to Assyria even until this day.
Nehemiah 7:61And these were they who came up from Thel-melach, Thelcharsha, Kerub, Addon, and Immer, but they could not tell their family division and their descent, whether they were of Israel.
Hosea 9:3They shall not dwell in the land of the Lord; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and in Assyria will they eat unclean things.
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 →