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Micah 2:5
5Therefore you will have no one in the assembly of the Lord to divide the land by lot.
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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Others will set your boundaries then, and the Lord’s people will have no say in how the land is divided.
Context of Micah 2:5
3Therefore, the Lord says: “I am planning disaster against this people, from which you cannot save yourselves. You will no longer walk proudly, for it will be a time of calamity. 4In that day people will ridicule you; they will taunt you with this mournful song: ‘We are utterly ruined; my people’s possession is divided up. He takes it from me! He assigns our fields to traitors.’ ” Therefore you will have no one in the assembly of the Lord to divide the land by lot. 6“Do not prophesy,” their prophets say. “Do not prophesy about these things; disgrace will not overtake us.” 7You descendants of Jacob, should it be said, “Does the Lord become impatient? Does he do such things?” “Do not my words do good to the one whose ways are upright?
Read all of Micah 2Micah 2:5 word by word
לָכֵן֙ לֹֽא־יִֽהְיֶ֣ה לְךָ֔ מַשְׁלִ֥יךְ חֶ֖בֶל בְּגוֹרָ֑ל בִּקְהַ֖ל יְהוָֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Micah 2:5
- Deuteronomy 32:8When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all mankind, he set up boundaries for the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.
- Joshua 18:4Appoint three men from each tribe. I will send them out to make a survey of the land and to write a description of it, according to the inheritance of each. Then they will return to me.
- Psalms 16:6The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance.
- Hosea 9:3They will not remain in the Lord’s land; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.
- Deuteronomy 23:2No one born of a forbidden marriage nor any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, not even in the tenth generation.
- Nehemiah 7:61The following came up from the towns of Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Kerub, Addon and Immer, but they could not show that their families were descended 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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