Micah 2:5
Therefore, thou hast no caster of a line by lot In the assembly of Jehovah.
Young's Literal Translation
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
6Ye do not prophesy — they do prophesy, They do not prophesy to these, It doth not remove shame.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 23:8sons who are begotten of them, a third generation of them, doth enter into the assembly of Jehovah.
Joshua 18:4Give for you three men for a tribe, and I send them, and they rise and go up and down through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance, and come in unto me,
2 Kings 17:23till that Jehovah hath turned Israel aside from His presence, as He spake by the hand of all His servants the prophets, and Israel is removed from off its land to Asshur, unto this day.
Nehemiah 7:61And these [are] those coming up from Tel-Melah, Tel-Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer — and they have not been able to declare the house of their fathers, and their seed, whether they [are] of Israel —
Hosea 9:3They do not abide in the land of Jehovah, And turned back hath Ephraim [to] Egypt, And in Asshur an unclean thing they eat.
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 →