Micah 2:4
In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he has changed the portion of my people: how has he removed it from me! turning away he has divided our fields.
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5Therefore you shall have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.
Cross References
Numbers 23:18And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, you son of Zippor:
Numbers 24:15And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor has said, and the man whose eyes are open has said:
2 Samuel 1:17And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:
2 Chronicles 35:25And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
Job 27:1Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
Isaiah 14:4That you shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city 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 →