New English Translation
Micah 2:5
5Therefore no one will assign you land in the Lord’s community.
Micah 2:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the Lord.
- New International Version (NIV)Therefore you will have no one in the assembly of the Lord to divide the land by lot.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the Lord.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore you will have no one to determine boundaries by lot In the assembly of the Lord.
Context of Micah 2:5
3Therefore the Lord says this: “Look, I am devising disaster for this nation! It will be like a yoke from which you cannot free your neck. You will no longer walk proudly, for it will be a time of catastrophe. 4In that day people will sing this taunt song to you – they will mock you with this lament: ‘We are completely destroyed; they sell off the property of my people. How they remove it from me! They assign our fields to the conqueror.’ Therefore no one will assign you land in the Lord’s community. 6‘Don’t preach with such impassioned rhetoric,’ they say excitedly. ‘These prophets should not preach of such things; we will not be overtaken by humiliation.’ 7Does the family of Jacob say, ‘The Lord’s patience can’t be exhausted – he would never do such things’? To be sure, my commands bring a reward for those who obey them,
Read all of Micah 2Micah 2:5 word by word
לָכֵן֙ לֹֽא־יִֽהְיֶ֣ה לְךָ֔ מַשְׁלִ֥יךְ חֶ֖בֶל בְּגוֹרָ֑ל בִּקְהַ֖ל יְהוָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Micah 2:5
- Deuteronomy 32:8When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided up humankind, he set the boundaries of the peoples, according to the number of the heavenly assembly.
- Joshua 18:4Pick three men from each tribe. I will send them out to walk through the land and make a map of it for me.
- Psalms 16:6It is as if I have been given fertile fields or received a beautiful tract of land.
- Hosea 9:3They will not remain in the Lord’s land. Ephraim will return to Egypt; they will eat ritually unclean food in Assyria.
- Deuteronomy 23:2A person of illegitimate birth may not enter the assembly of the Lord; to the tenth generation no one related to him may do so.
- Nehemiah 7:61These are the ones who came up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Kerub, Addon, and Immer (although they were unable to certify their family connection or their ancestry, as to whether they were really from Israel):
Commentaries on Micah 2:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5None that shall cast a cord - You will no more have your inheritance divided to you by lot, as it was to your fathers; ye shall neither have fields nor possessions of any kind.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Therefore thou shalt have none that shall east a cord by lot in the congregation of the Lord - Thou, in the first instance, is the impenitent Jew of that day. God had promised by Hosea to restore Judah; shortly after, the prophet himself foretells it Micah 2:12. Now he forewarns these and such as these, that they would have no portion in it. They had “neither part nor lot in this matter” Acts 8:21. They, the not-Israel then, were the images and ensamples…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-5The Lord, acting as a judge, announces the sentence. He will repay his people's wicked hearts and actions with disaster. The prophet uses wordplay here. The Hebrew word for "evil" has many meanings. It can mean moral evil, as in the first case, or calamity or disaster, as in the second. The Lord will bring disaster on them because of their wickedness.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. Therefore--resumed from Mi 2:3. On account of your crimes described in Mi 2:1, 2. thou--the ideal individual ("me," Mi 2:4), representing the guilty people in whose name he spoke. none that ... cast a cord by lot--none who shall have any possession measured out. in the congregation of the Lord--among the people consecrated to Jehovah. By covetousness and violence (Mi 2:2) they had forfeited "the portion of Jehovah's people." This is God's implied…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Micah 2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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