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Micah 2:2
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They covet fields and seize them;they also take houses.They deprive a man of his home,a person of his inheritance.
They covet fields, and seize them; And houses, and take them away: And they oppress a man and his house, Even a man and his heritage.
And they couet fields and take them by violence: and houses, and take them away: so they oppresse a man and his house, euen a man and his heritage.
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.
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.
They covet fields, so they seize them; And houses, so they take them. They exploit a man and his house, A person and his inheritance.
They want fields, so they take them; they want houses, so they take them away. They cheat people to get their houses; they rob them even of their property.
They covet fields and seize them, And houses, and take them away. They oppress and rob a man and his house, A man and his inheritance.
And they couet fields, and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away: so they oppresse a man and his house, euen man and his heritage.
They covet fields and then seize them, And houses, and take them away. They rob a man and his house, A man and his inheritance.
And they covet fields and then tear them away,And houses, and take them away.And they oppress a man and his house,A man and his inheritance.
They covet fields and seize them, and they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.
You grab any field or house that you want; you cheat families out of homes and land.
They covet fields and seize them; they take over houses as well, doing violence to both owner and house, to people and their inherited land.
And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away; and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
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.
They covet fields and houses, and seize them by force; they oppress a man, taking away from him his possessions and his inheritance.
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and they take them away. They oppress a man and his house; a man and his inheritance.
And they covet and seize fields and houses, and carry them away. And they oppress a man and his household, even a man and his inheritance.
And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.
And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away; thus they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
And they couet fieldes, and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away: so they oppresse a man and his house, [euen] man and his heritage.
And they desired fields, and plundered orphans, and oppressed families, and spoiled a man and his house, even a man and his inheritance.
And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
They covet fields, and seize them; And houses, and take them away: And they oppress a man and his house, Even a man and his heritage.
Thei coueitiden feeldis, and tooken violentli; and rauyschiden housis, and falsli calengiden a man and his hous, a man and his eritage.
And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a [noble] man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
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.
They confiscate the fields they desire, and seize the houses they want. They defraud people of their homes, and deprive people of the land they have inherited.
They covet fields and take them by violence, Also houses, and seize them. So they oppress a man and his house, A man and his inheritance.
When you want a piece of land, you find a way to seize it. When you want someone's house, you take it by fraud and violence. You cheat a man of his property, stealing his family's inheritance.
They want fields that belong to someone else, and take them. They want houses, and take them. They rob a man and his house, a man and what has been given to him.
They covet fields, and seize them; houses, and take them away; they oppress householder and house, people and their inheritance.
Thus do they covet fields and seize them, and houses and take them away, - and so they oppress the master and his household, the man and his inheritance.
And they have coveted fields, and taken them by violence, and houses they have forcibly taken away: and oppressed a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.
They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.
And they have desired fields, And they have taken violently, And houses, and they have taken away, And have oppressed a man and his house, Even a man and his inheritance.
When they covet to haue londe, they take it by violence, they robbe men off their houses. Thus they oppresse a ma for his house, & euery man for his heretage.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
they covet: Exodus 20:17, 1 Kings 21:2-19, Job 31:38, Isaiah 5:8, Jeremiah 22:17, Amos 8:4, Habakkuk 2:5-9, 1 Timothy 6:10
so: Micah 3:9, Exodus 22:21-24, 2 Kings 9:26, Nehemiah 5:1-5, Job 24:2-12, Ezekiel 18:12, Ezekiel 22:12, Amos 8:4, Malachi 3:5, Matthew 23:14
oppress: or, defraud, 1 Samuel 12:3, 1 Samuel 12:4
Reciprocal: Leviticus 6:4 - which he Leviticus 25:14 - General Deuteronomy 5:21 - General Deuteronomy 24:17 - pervert Joshua 7:21 - took them Judges 21:25 - right 1 Samuel 2:16 - I will take 1 Kings 21:7 - I will give thee Job 20:19 - he hath violently Job 24:4 - turn Job 24:14 - murderer Job 31:21 - when Psalms 55:10 - Day Psalms 73:6 - violence Psalms 101:3 - set Proverbs 3:29 - Devise not evil Proverbs 10:15 - the destruction Proverbs 22:16 - that oppresseth Proverbs 30:14 - to devour Ecclesiastes 3:16 - General Isaiah 3:14 - ye have eaten Isaiah 32:6 - and his heart Isaiah 57:17 - the iniquity Jeremiah 6:7 - violence Jeremiah 6:13 - For Jeremiah 17:11 - he that Ezekiel 7:11 - Violence Ezekiel 7:23 - for Ezekiel 8:17 - for Ezekiel 11:2 - General Ezekiel 22:29 - people Ezekiel 28:16 - filled Ezekiel 33:26 - stand Ezekiel 34:18 - to have Ezekiel 45:9 - exactions Amos 2:7 - pant Amos 5:11 - treading Micah 2:9 - cast Micah 6:12 - the rich Habakkuk 1:4 - for Zephaniah 3:1 - to the Zephaniah 3:7 - they Mark 12:40 - devour Luke 12:15 - Take Luke 20:47 - devour Romans 7:7 - Thou shalt 1 Corinthians 6:8 - General Ephesians 5:3 - covetousness 1 Thessalonians 4:6 - defraud
Cross-References
God looked at everything he had made, and he was very pleased. Evening passed and morning came—that was the sixth day.
Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the East, and there he put the man he had formed.
The first river is the Pishon; it flows around the country of Havilah.
"Work six days a week, but do no work on the seventh day, so that your slaves and the foreigners who work for you and even your animals can rest.
It is a permanent sign between the people of Israel and me, because I, the Lord , made heaven and earth in six days, and on the seventh day I stopped working and rested."
but the seventh day is a day of rest dedicated to me. On that day no one is to work—neither you, your children, your slaves, your animals, nor the foreigners who live in your country. Your slaves must rest just as you do.
The Lord says, "If you treat the Sabbath as sacred and do not pursue your own interests on that day; if you value my holy day and honor it by not traveling, working, or talking idly on that day,
Jesus answered them, "My Father is always working, and I too must work."
For somewhere in the Scriptures this is said about the seventh day: "God rested on the seventh day from all his work."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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 to get them into their possession; and if they cannot get them by fair means, if they cannot persuade them to sell them, or at their price, they will either use some crafty method to get them from them, or they will take them away by force and violence; as Ahab got Naboth's vineyard from him:
and houses, and take [them] away; they covet the houses of their neighbours also, and take the same course to get them out of their hands, and add them to their own estates:
so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage; not only dispossess him of his house to dwell in, but of his paternal inheritance, what he received from his ancestors, and should have transmitted to his posterity, being unalienable; and so distressed a man and his family for the present, and his posterity after him. The Vulgate Latin version is, "they calumniate a man and his house"; which seems to be designed to make it agree with the story of Ahab,
1 Kings 21:13.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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 take, are the same. They were prompt, instantaneous, without a scruple, in violence. So soon as they coveted, they took. Desired, acquired! Coveted, robbed! “They saw, they coveted, they took,” had been their past history. They did violence, not to one only, but, touched with no mercy, to whole families, their little ones also; they oppressed a man and his house. They spoiled pot goods only, but life, a man and his inheritance; destroying him by false accusations or violence and seizing upon his inheritance . Thus, Ahab first coveted Naboth’s vineyard, then, through Jezebel, slew him; and , “they who devoured widow’s houses, did at the last plot by night against Him of whom they said, Come, let us kill Him, and the inheritance shall be our’s; and in the morning, they practiced it, leading Him away to Pilate.” : “Who of us desires not the villas of this world, forgetful of the possessions of Paradise? You see men join field to field, and fence to fence. Whole places suffice not to the tiny frame of one man.” : “Such is the fire of concupiscence, raging within, that, as those seized by burning fevers cannot rest, no bed suffices them, so no houses or fields content these. Yet no more than seven feet of earth will suffice them soon . Death only owns, how small the frame of man.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
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; so that they take away even the heritage of the poor.
