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Micah 2:5

Judgment

3 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.

4 In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.

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

6 Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.

7 O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?

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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.

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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

    Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me.

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  • Deuteronomy 32:8

    When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

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  • Joshua 18:10

    And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.

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  • Deuteronomy 23:2

    A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

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  • Psalms 16:6

    The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

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  • Hosea 9:3

    They shall not dwell in the LORD’s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

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  • Nehemiah 7:61

    And these were they which went up also from Tel-melah, Tel-haresha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew their father’s house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.

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  • Deuteronomy 23:8

    The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.

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