New King James Version
Micah 2:5
5Therefore you will have no one to determine boundaries by lot In the assembly of the Lord.
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 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 thus says the Lord: “Behold, against this family I am devising disaster, From which you cannot remove your necks; Nor shall you walk haughtily, For this is an evil time. 4In that day one shall take up a proverb against you, And lament with a bitter lamentation, saying: ‘We are utterly destroyed! He has changed the heritage of my people; How He has removed it from me! To a turncoat He has divided our fields.’ ” Therefore you will have no one to determine boundaries by lot In the assembly of the Lord. 6“Do not prattle,” you say to those who prophesy. So they shall not prophesy to you; They shall not return insult for insult. 7You who are named the house of Jacob: “Is the Spirit of the Lord restricted? Are these His doings? Do not My words do good To him who walks uprightly?
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 divided their inheritance to the nations, When He separated the sons of Adam, He set the boundaries of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.
- Joshua 18:4Pick out from among you three men for each tribe, and I will send them; they shall rise and go through the land, survey it according to their inheritance, and come back to me.
- Psalms 16:6The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; Yes, I have a good inheritance.
- Hosea 9:3They shall not dwell in the Lord’s land, But Ephraim shall return to Egypt, And shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
- Deuteronomy 23:2“One of illegitimate birth shall not enter the assembly of the Lord; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the Lord.
- Nehemiah 7:61And these were the ones who came up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but they could not identify their father’s house nor their lineage, whether they were of 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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