And they covet fields, the property and inheritance of others, and take them by violence, seizing them as it suits their fancy, and houses, and take them away, oppressing the poor with a show of right. So they oppress, overwhelm and put to their own use, a man and his house, even a man and his heritage, which by the Law of God was to remain in the possession of his family. Cf Exodus 20:14; Deuteronomy 5:18.
Verse Micah 2:2. _THEY COVET FIELDS_] These are the rich and mighty in the land; and, like Ahab, they will take the vineyard or inheritance of any poor Naboth on which they may fix their covetous eye;...
AND THEY COVET FIELDS AND TAKE THEM BY VIOLENCE - (rend them away) and houses, and take them away Still, first they sin in heart, then in act. And yet, with them, to covet and to rob, to desire and to...
CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The guilt and punishment of Israel (Micah 2:1) _ 2. The future restoration (Micah 2:12) Micah 2:1. In the first two verses the special sins of Israel are mentioned, the same as in Amo...
SOCIAL INJUSTICE AND ITS PENALTY. The prophet denounces those for whom might is right (Psalms 36:4; and work evil seems a thoughtless scribal addition), who acquire property by illegal or inequitable...
COVET FIELDS. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 6:4.Deuteronomy 5:21; Deuteronomy 5:21). App-92. THEY OPPRESS, &C. Reference to Pentateuch ...
_And they covet fields_, &c. -To covet" is itself a gross offence against the law of God, as the deepest of all the Ten Commandments shews (Exodus 20:17). Large additions to one's estates were diametr...
_PUNISHMENT FOR EVIL DOERS -- MICAH 2:1-3:_ God told these people that they were doomed for their premeditated sins. God hates all kinds of sins but He especially hates planned sins. The people of Isr...
THEY OPPRESS— _They plunder._...
CHAPTER VII SECOND CYCLE WOE TO THE ARROGANT MISLEADERS. Micah 2:1-3 RV. Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in...
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. AND THEY COVET FIELDS, AND TAKE THEM BY VIOLENCE...
2:2 oppress (s-18) Or 'defraud,' see Ezekiel 22:12 . man (t-20) _ Geber_ , Job 3:3 . man (u-26) _ Ish_ , Genesis 2:23 ....
THE SINS THAT BRING RUIN Micah 2:3, as dealing with the same subject, should be read together. Micah now enumerates the sins which must bring punishment on Judah. He inveighs bitterly against the rap...
MICAH SPEAKS A MESSAGE FROM GOD TO ALL THE NATIONS MICAH _LES PAINTER_ CHAPTER 2 2:1-11 EVIL LEADERS AND FALSE *PROPHETS WILL SUFFER v1 Trouble will come to people that plot evil things. Those...
AND THEY COVET FIELDS. — The act of Ahab and Jezebel in coveting and acquiring Naboth’s vineyard by violence and murder was no isolated incident. The desire to accumulate property in land, in contrave...
וְ חָמְד֤וּ שָׂדֹות֙ וְ גָזָ֔לוּ וּ בָתִּ֖ים
THE PROPHET OF THE POOR Micah 2:1; Micah 3:1 WE have proved Micah's love for his countryside in the effusion of his heart upon her villages with a grief for their danger greater than his grief for Je...
THE HARVEST OF GREED AND INJUSTICE Micah 2:1-13 Micah 1:1-16 dealt with sins against the _first_ table of the law; this deals with those against the _second_. Evil must sooner or later befall those w...
Following this the prophet states the cause of the imminent judgment. The sin consists in devising evil at night and practicing it in the morning, and the abuse of authority. Covetousness, expressing...
_Oppressed. Literally, "calumniated," (Haydock) as Jezabel did Naboth, 3 Kings xxi. 13._...
We have here the continuance of the same subject; the Lord's charge against Israel. It is not the nations around, but Israel, against whom the Lord pleads. Sin in God's people becomes exceeding sinful...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. The prophecy of Micah, like all the rest, has its own distinctive properties, though falling into the general current of testimony to Israel, and so far with...
Micah confirms here what is contained in the former verse; for he sets forth the alacrity with which the avaricious were led to commit plunder; nay, how unbridled was their cupidity to do evil. As soo...
In chapter 2 the prophet points out the moral causes of the judgment of God-violence and shameless oppression. They formed plans of violence to gratify their covetousness, and Jehovah formed also plan...
AND THEY COVET FIELDS, AND TAKE [THEM] BY VIOLENCE,.... The fields of their poor neighbours, which lie near them, and convenient for them; they wish they were theirs, and they contrive ways and means...
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. Ver. 2. _And they covet fields, and take them b...
_Wo to them that devise iniquity_ That design and frame mischief; _and work evil upon their beds_ Contrive how to work it, and actually execute their plans when they rise in the morning. _Because it i...
OPPRESS: Or, defraud...
1-5 Woe to the people that devise evil during the night, and rise early to carry it into execution! It is bad to do mischief on a sudden thought, much worse to do it with design and forethought. It i...
AND THEY, who devised mischief, MICAH 2:1, COVET FIELDS; first set their minds upon their meaner neighbour's estate, think how convenient it lieth to theirs, as Ahab thought Naboth's did for him. AND...
Micah 2:2 covet H2530 (H8804) fields H7704 violence H1497 (H8804) houses H1004 seize H5375 (H8804) oppress...
THE SINS WHICH HAVE BROUGHT JUDAH'S CALAMITY ON IT (MICAH 2:1). These prophecies would have been spoken well before the scenes previously depicted, which from the point of view of this chapter are st...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's case against Israel, continued. Future deliverance of a remnant. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit. CONCLUSION: Sinners cannot expect to rest in a land which they have polluted by the...
Micah 2:1. _Woe to them that devise iniquity they covet fields, and take them by violence._ The jubilee was the happiest law that ever favoured a nation; but the rabbins confess that before the captiv...
_And they covet fields, and take them by violence _ AVARICE Greed is the spring and spirit of all oppression. Here rapacious avarice is presented in three aspects. I. Scheming in the night. When a...
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 2:2 COVET... SEIZE... TAKE... OPPRESS. Taking land and property (HIS INHERITANCE) from the weak was a violation of the covenant (E
CRITICAL NOTES.] Judgment has been pronounced in general, now special sins are described. The conduct of the nobility is denounced. DEVISE] Heb. to form plans (Psalms 36:5). WORK] Fabricate, mature th...
EXPOSITION MICAH 2:1 § 6. _The prophet justifies his threat by recounting the sins of which the grandees and guilty._ MICAH 2:1 The prophet, himself one of the people, first inveighs against the si...
Now God is giving here His continued indictment against Israel and He said, Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it ha...
1 Kings 21:2; 1 Samuel 12:3; 1 Samuel 12:4; 1 Timothy 6:10; 2 Kings
And his house — His family, which by this means is left to poverty. And his heritage — And this is done against ancient right and possession, nay, in a case where God hath forbidden them to sell their...