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Thursday, July 10th, 2025
the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Micah 2:5

So we will not be able to measure the land and divide it among the Lord 's people.'"

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Cord;   Lot, the;   Micah;   Rope;   Scofield Reference Index - Remnant;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Judah, tribe and kingdom;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Cord;   Lines;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Micah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Micah;   Micah, Book of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Husbandry;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Congregation;   Cord;   Micah (2);  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Therefore, there will be no onein the assembly of the Lordto divide the land by casting lots.
Hebrew Names Version
Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in the assembly of the LORD.
King James Version (1611)
Therefore thou shalt haue none that shall cast a cord by lot in the Congregation of the Lord.
King James Version
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the Lord .
English Standard Version
Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the Lord .
New American Standard Bible
"Therefore you will have no one applying a measuring line For you by lot in the assembly of the LORD.
New Century Version
So you will have no one from the Lord 's people to throw lots to divide the land.
Amplified Bible
"Therefore, you will have no one stretching a measuring line [dividing the common land] For you by lot in the assembly of the LORD.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore thou shalt haue none that shall cast a corde by lot in the Congregation of the Lorde.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Therefore you will have no one stretching a measuring line For you by lot in the assembly of the LORD.
Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore you will have no one stretching a measuring lineFor you by lot in the assembly of Yahweh.
Berean Standard Bible
Therefore, you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by lot.
Contemporary English Version
And so you will never again own property among the Lord 's people.
Complete Jewish Bible
Therefore, you will have no one in the assembly of Adonai to stretch out a measuring line and restore the land assigned by lot.
Darby Translation
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the measuring line upon a lot, in the congregation of Jehovah.
George Lamsa Translation
Therefore you shall have none that shall measure by the measuring line and divide by casting the lots in the congregation of the LORD.
Good News Translation
So then, when the time comes for the land to be given back to the Lord 's people, there will be no share for any of you.
Lexham English Bible
Therefore you will have no one casting a line by lot in the assembly of Yahweh.
Literal Translation
So there shall not be for you one casting a line by lot in the congregation of Jehovah.
American Standard Version
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the line by lot in the assembly of Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
For this cause you will have no one to make the decision by the measuring line in the meeting of the Lord.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the line by lot in the congregation of the LORD.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Therefore there shalbe no man to deuide thee thy portion in the congregation of the Lorde.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Therefore thou shalt have no one to cast a line for the lot.
English Revised Version
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the line by lot in the congregation of the LORD.
World English Bible
Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in the assembly of Yahweh.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For this thing `noon schal be to thee sendynge a litil corde of sort in cumpeny of the Lord.
Update Bible Version
Therefore you shall have none that shall cast the line by lot in the assembly of Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.
New English Translation
Therefore no one will assign you land in the Lord 's community.
New King James Version
Therefore you will have no one to determine boundaries [fn] by lotIn the assembly of the Lord.
New Living Translation
Others will set your boundaries then, and the Lord 's people will have no say in how the land is divided.
New Life Bible
So you will have no one among the Lord's people to divide the land in a right way for you.
New Revised Standard
Therefore you will have no one to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the Lord .
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Therefore, shalt thou have none to throw a measuring-line by lot, - in the convocation of Yahweh.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the cord of a lot in the assembly of the Lord.
Revised Standard Version
Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the LORD.
Young's Literal Translation
Therefore, thou hast no caster of a line by lot In the assembly of Jehovah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Neuerthelesse there shalbe noman to deuyde the thy porcion, in the congregacion off the LORDE.

Contextual Overview

1 Trouble will come to those who make plans to sin. They lie on their beds making their evil plans. Then when the morning light comes, they do what they planned, because they have the power to do what they want. 2 They want fields, so they take them. They want houses, so they take them. They cheat a man and take his house and his land. 3 That is why the Lord says: "Look, I am planning trouble against this family. You will not be able to save yourselves. You will stop being proud, because bad times are coming. 4 Then people will sing songs about you. They will sing this sad song: ‘We are ruined! The Lord took away our land and gave it to other people. Yes, he took my land away from me. He has divided our fields among our enemies. 5 So we will not be able to measure the land and divide it among the Lord 's people.'"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

cast: Deuteronomy 32:8, Joshua 18:4, Joshua 18:10, Psalms 16:6, Hosea 9:3

the congregation: Deuteronomy 23:2, Deuteronomy 23:8, Nehemiah 7:61

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:9 - lot 1 Chronicles 16:18 - lot

Cross-References

Genesis 2:9
Then the Lord God caused all the beautiful trees that were good for food to grow in the garden. In the middle of the garden, he put the tree of life and the tree that gives knowledge about good and evil.
Genesis 2:11
The name of the first river was Pishon. This river flowed around the entire country of Havilah.
Genesis 2:12
(There is gold in that country, and that gold is pure. A kind of expensive perfume and onyx are also found there.)
Genesis 3:23
So the Lord God forced the man out of the Garden of Eden to work the ground he was made from.
Genesis 4:2
Eve gave birth again to Cain's brother Abel. Abel became a shepherd, and Cain became a farmer.
Genesis 4:12
Now when you work the soil, the ground will not help your plants grow. You will not have a home in this land. You will wander from place to place."
Job 5:10
He sends rain all over the earth and waters the fields.
Psalms 104:14
You make the grass grow to feed the animals. You provide plants for the crops we grow— the plants that give us food from the earth.
Psalms 135:7
He brings the clouds from the other side of the earth. He sends the lightning and the rain, and he opens the doors to release the winds.
Jeremiah 14:22
Foreign idols don't have the power to bring rain. The sky does not have the power to send down showers of rain. You, the Lord our God, are our only hope. You are the one who made all these things.

Gill's Notes on the 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 Kimchi; who should not be, nor have any posterity to inherit by lot the land of Israel; or to those oppressors that took away houses and fields from others, these should have no part nor lot in the land any more; or rather to the whole, people of Israel, who should no more inherit their land after their captivity, as they have not to this day. The allusion is to the distribution of the land by lot, and the dividing of it by a cord or line, as in Joshua's time; but now there should be no land in the possession of Israelites to be divided among them; nor any people to divide it to, being scattered up and down in the world, and so no need of any person to be employed in such service; nor any sanhedrim or court of judicature to apply unto for a just and equal division and distribution, who perhaps may be meant in the next clause:

in the congregation of the Lord; unless this is to be understood of the body of the people, who were formerly called the congregation of the Lord, Deuteronomy 23:1; though now they had forfeited this character, and are only called so ironically, as some think. Aben Ezra interprets it, when the Lord returns the captivity of his people; and so Kimchi, who applies it to the false prophet, as before observed, who at this time should have no part nor lot in the land.

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 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 of the not-Israel afterward, those who seem to be God’s people and are not; members of the body, not of the soul of the Church; who have a sort of faith, but have not love. Such was afterward the Israel after the flesh, which was broken off, while the true Israel was restored, passing out of themselves into Christ. Such, at the end, shall be those, who, being admitted by Christ into “their portion,” renounce the world in word not in deed. Such shall have “no portion forever “in the congregation of the Lord.” For “nothing defiled shall enter there, nor whatsoever worketh abomination or a lie, but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life” Revelation 21:27.

The ground of their condemnation is their resistance to light and known truth. These not only “entered not in” Luke 11:52, themselves, but, being hinderers of God’s word, them that were entering in, they hindered.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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.


 
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