Micah 2:5

For this thing, none shall be to thee sending a little cord of lot, in company of the Lord. (And because of this, no one shall be casting for thee a little cord by lot, in the congregation of the Lord.)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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 a parable shall be taken on you, and a song shall be sung with sweetness of men, saying, By robbing we be destroyed; a part of my people is changed; how shall he go away from me, when he turneth again that shall part your countries? (On that day a parable shall be made about you, and a song shall be sung with sadness by people, saying, We be destroyed by robbing; a part, or a portion, of my people hath been taken away; he hath divided up our countryside unto those who took us captive.)

6A! thou Israel, speak ye not speaking; it shall not drop (a word) on these men, confusion shall not catch, (O thou Israel! thou saith to me, Speak ye not! ye shall not drop a word upon us, for shame shall not catch us!)

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 23:8They that be born of them, shall enter in the third generation into the church of the Lord. (They who be born of them, from the third generation onward, can be part of the Lord’s congregation.)

Joshua 18:4Choose ye (out) of each lineage three men, (so) that I send them, and they go, and compass the land; and that they describe the land by the number of each multitude, (or and they set the borders of the land, suitable for the number of each multitude), and (then) bring to me that, that ye have described.

2 Kings 17:23till the Lord did away Israel from his face, as he spake in the hand of all his servants (the) prophets; and Israel was translated/was brought over from his land into Assyrians till into this day, (or and the Israelites were carried away, or were brought over, from their own land into Assyria, and they be there unto this day).

Nehemiah 7:61And these that follow be they that went up of the country of Telmelah, Telharesha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; which might not show the house of their fathers, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel; (And these (who follow) be they who returned (from the towns) of Telmelah, Telharesha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not prove their father’s house, (or family), or whether they were descendants of Israelites;)

Hosea 9:3They shall not dwell in the land of the Lord. Ephraim turned again in to Egypt, and ate defouled thing among Assyrians. (They shall not live in the land of the Lord. Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and shall eat defiled things among the Assyrians.)

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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