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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.
When they want fields, they seize them; when they want houses, they take them. No one's family or property is safe.
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 over everything he had made; it was so good, so very good! It was evening, it was morning— Day Six.
Then God planted a garden in Eden, in the east. He put the Man he had just made in it. God made all kinds of trees grow from the ground, trees beautiful to look at and good to eat. The Tree-of-Life was in the middle of the garden, also the Tree-of-Knowledge-of-Good-and-Evil.
"Work for six days and rest the seventh so your ox and donkey may rest and your servant and migrant workers may have time to get their needed rest.
"If you watch your step on the Sabbath and don't use my holy day for personal advantage, If you treat the Sabbath as a day of joy, God 's holy day as a celebration, If you honor it by refusing ‘business as usual,' making money, running here and there— Then you'll be free to enjoy God ! Oh, I'll make you ride high and soar above it all. I'll make you feast on the inheritance of your ancestor Jacob." Yes! God says so!
But Jesus defended himself. "My Father is working straight through, even on the Sabbath. So am I."
When the Promises Are Mixed with Faith For as long, then, as that promise of resting in him pulls us on to God's goal for us, we need to be careful that we're not disqualified. We received the same promises as those people in the wilderness, but the promises didn't do them a bit of good because they didn't receive the promises with faith. If we believe, though, we'll experience that state of resting. But not if we don't have faith. Remember that God said, Exasperated, I vowed, "They'll never get where they're going, never be able to sit down and rest." God made that vow, even though he'd finished his part before the foundation of the world. Somewhere it's written, "God rested the seventh day, having completed his work," but in this other text he says, "They'll never be able to sit down and rest." So this promise has not yet been fulfilled. Those earlier ones never did get to the place of rest because they were disobedient. God keeps renewing the promise and setting the date as today, just as he did in David's psalm, centuries later than the original invitation: Today, please listen, don't turn a deaf ear... And so this is still a live promise. It wasn't canceled at the time of Joshua; otherwise, God wouldn't keep renewing the appointment for "today." The promise of "arrival" and "rest" is still there for God's people. God himself is at rest. And at the end of the journey we'll surely rest with God. So let's keep at it and eventually arrive at the place of rest, not drop out through some sort of disobedience. God means what he says. What he says goes. His powerful Word is sharp as a surgeon's scalpel, cutting through everything, whether doubt or defense, laying us open to listen and obey. Nothing and no one is impervious to God's Word. We can't get away from it—no matter what. Now that we know what we have—Jesus, this great High Priest with ready access to God—let's not let it slip through our fingers. We don't have a priest who is out of touch with our reality. He's been through weakness and testing, experienced it all—all but the sin. So let's walk right up to him and get what he is so ready to give. Take the mercy, accept the help.
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.
