Micah 2:4
In that day [one] takes up for you an allegory, || And he has wailed a wailing of woe, || He has said, We have been utterly spoiled, || The portion of my people He changes, || How He moves toward me! To the backslider our fields He apportions.
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In Context
5Therefore, you have no caster of a line by lot || In the assembly of YHWH.
Cross References
Numbers 23:18And he takes up his allegory and says: “Rise, Balak, and hear; Give ear to me, son of Zippor!
Numbers 24:15And he takes up his allegory and says: “An affirmation of Balaam son of Beor, || And an affirmation of the man whose eyes [are] shut;
2 Samuel 1:17And David laments with this lamentation over Saul, and over his son Jonathan;
2 Chronicles 35:25and Jeremiah laments for Josiah, and all the male and female singers speak in their lamentations of Josiah to this day, and set them for a statute on Israel, and behold, they are written beside the Lamentations.
Job 27:1And Job adds to lift up his allegory and says:
Isaiah 14:4That you have taken up this allegory || Concerning the king of Babylon, and said, “How the exactor has ceased,
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 →