Micah 2:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD. ”

Micah 2:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 restor...
Micah 2:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

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...
Micah 2:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 inequit...
Micah 2:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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...
Micah 2:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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 lan...
Micah 2:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD. None that shall cast a cord - You will no more have your inheritance divided to you by lot, as it was to...
Micah 2:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 2:1-2 . T...
Micah 2:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 t...
Micah 2:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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.
Micah 2:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE PROPHET OF THE POOR Micah 2:1-13 ; Micah 3:1-12 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 hi...
Micah 2:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
Micah 2:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Micah 2:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
Micah 2:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 K...
Micah 2:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Micah 2:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 m...
Micah 2:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Sins of the People. B. C. 740. 1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upo...
Micah 2:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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;...
Micah 2:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Sins Which Have Brought Judah's Calamity On It ( Micah 2:1-11 ). These prophecies would have been spoken well before the scenes previously depicted, which from the point of view of this chapte...
Micah 2:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 ; Isaiah 33:1 ) [ Lang...
Micah 2:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 cap...
Micah 2:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Micah 2:1-33 § 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 inveig...
Micah 2:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Denunciation of the Prevalent Evils
Micah 2:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 23:2 ; Deuteronomy 23:8 ; Deuteronomy 32:8 ; Hosea 9:3 ; Joshua 18:10 ; Joshua 18:4 ; Nehemiah 7:61 ; Psalms 16:6
Micah 2:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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 th...

Micah 2:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Micah 2:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Micah 2:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Micah 2:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Micah 2:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Micah 2:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Micah 2:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Micah 2:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Micah 2:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Micah 2:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Micah 2:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Micah 2:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Micah 2:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Micah 2:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Micah 2:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Micah 2:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Micah 2:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Micah 2:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Micah 2:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Micah 2:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Micah 2:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Micah 2:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Micah 2:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Micah 2:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Micah 2:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes