Thou shalt have — None that shall ever return to this land, to see it allotted by line and given them to possess it. In the congregation — They shall no more be the congregation of the Lord, nor their children after them.
Verse Micah 2:5. _NONE 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....
THEREFORE 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 Juda...
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...
CAST. CORD BY LOT. Referring to the custom, by which, round every village in Palestine, the land was divided by lot every year to the various families; hence, the expression in Psalms 16:6, "cord" bei...
_RUINED BECAUSE OF CONTINUAL SIN -- MICAH 2:4-5:_ A lack of repentance brought God's most severe judgment against Israel. When that day of judgment arrived it would be a sorrowful day. Sad songs would...
A TAUNT AGAINST THE WICKED. Micah 2:4-5 RV. In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We are utterly ruined: he changeth the portion of my p...
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD. THEREFORE - resumed from Micah 2:3. On account of your crimes, described in Micah 2:1. THOU - the ide...
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...
When Micah uses these words, he is talking about a future time. It is a time when God’s people will come back to their country. Several centuries before, God had told Moses to measure the country. Mos...
THOU SHALT HAVE none..._ — i.e.,_ thou shalt have no part or inheritance in the congregation of the Lord — apparently referring to the ancient division of the land by lot....
לָכֵן֙ לֹֽא ־יִֽהְיֶ֣ה לְךָ֔ מַשְׁלִ֥יךְ חֶ֖בֶל...
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...
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in (c) the congregation of the LORD. (c) You will have no more lands to divide as you had in times past, and as you used to measure them i...
_None. Thou shalt have no longer any lot or inheritance in the land of the people of the Lord. (Challoner) --- Strangers had taken possession. (Calmet) --- Virgil has the like affecting thoughts. (Ecl...
When we consider the Lord's dealings with Israel, we cannot sufficiently lament their depravity. Other nations of the earth, which knew not the Lord, we behold with a different aspect to that of the s...
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...
Here the Prophet concludes his discourse respecting God’s design to cleanse Judea from its perverse and wicked inhabitants, that it might no longer be the inheritance of one people. For the land, we k...
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...
THEREFORE THOU SHALT HAVE NONE THAT SHALL CAST A CORD BY LOT,.... This confirms what was before delivered in a parabolical way, and as a lamentation; and is spoken either to the false prophet, as Kimc...
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD. Ver. 5. _Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot_] Fields were divided with cords of...
_In that day shall one take up a parable_ Shall use a figurative speech, _against you_ A parable signifies a speech out of the ordinary way, as the Greek word παροιμια imports, and illustrated with me...
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the Lord, to cast a measuring-line on a lot of ground in the assembly of Jehovah, for the possessions of the childre...
DENUNCIATION OF THE PREVALENT EVILS...
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...
THEREFORE; because your sins, so great, universal, and incorrigible, have provoked God to frame and design this desolation against you, and because he will punish you according to your ways. THOU; eit...
Micah 2:5 determine H7993 (H8688) boundaries H2256 lot H1486 assembly H6951 LORD H3068 cast -...
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...
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 2:5 YOU WILL HAVE NONE. The dishonest land-grabbers are excluded from the inheritance they denied to others (v. Micah 2:2)....
CRITICAL NOTES.] MICAH 2:3. FAMILY] Nation. DEVISE] Cf. Micah 2:1, “to set clearly before our eyes the _jus talionis_ prevalent in God’s providence” (Exodus 21:23;...
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...
Deuteronomy 23:2; Deuteronomy 23:8; Deuteronomy 32:8; Hosea 9:3;...