Micah 2:5
3 Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I am planning against this nation a disaster from which you cannot free your necks. Then you will not walk so proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.
4 In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ‘We are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.’”
Therefore, you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by lot.
6 “Do not preach,” they preach. “Do not preach these things; disgrace will not overtake us.”
7 Should it be said, O house of Jacob, “Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these the things He does?” Do not My words bring good to him who walks uprightly?
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Therefore, you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by lot.
- KJV
- Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.
- WEB
- Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in the LORD’s assembly.
- ASV
- Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the line by lot in the assembly of Jehovah.
- DARBY
- Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the measuring line upon a lot, in the congregation of Jehovah.
- BLB
- Therefore there will be unto you no one casting the cord by lot in the assembly of YHWH.
- ÅB
- Derfor skal du ikke ha noen som drar målesnor
over en jordlodd i Herrens forsamling.[^2] - OTB
- Derfor skal dere ikke ha noen som deler ut land ved lodd
I Herrens forsamling. - B1930
- Derfor skal du ingen ha som drar målesnor over nogen jordlodd i Herrens menighet. / < tilmåler dig en jordlodd.>
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Joshua 18:4
Appoint three men from each tribe, and I will send them out to survey the land and map it out, according to the inheritance of each. Then they will return to me
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:8
When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
Read in contextJoshua 18:10
And Joshua cast lots for them in the presence of the LORD at Shiloh, where he distributed the land to the Israelites according to their divisions.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 23:2
No one of illegitimate birth may enter the assembly of the LORD, nor may any of his descendants, even to the tenth generation.
Read in contextPsalms 16:6
The lines of my boundary have fallen in pleasant places; surely my inheritance is delightful.
Read in contextHosea 9:3
They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.
Read in contextNehemiah 7:61
The following came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but could not prove that their families were descended from Israel:
Read in contextDeuteronomy 23:8
The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.
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