Micah Chapter 2 verse 2 Holy Bible
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - They carry out by open violence the fraud which they have devised and planned (comp. Isaiah 5:8; Amos 4:1). Covet fields. Compare the case of Ahab and Naboth (1 Kings 21.). The commandment against coveting (Exodus 20:17) taught the Jews that God regarded sins of thought as well as of action. The Law forbade the alienation of landed property and the transfer of estates from tribe to tribe (Leviticus 25:23-28; Numbers 36:7). A rich man might buy a poor man's estate subject to the law of jubilee; but these grandees seem to have forced the sale of property, or else seized it by force or fraud. Oppress; Vulgate, calumniabantur. The Hebrew word involves the idea of violence.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) And they covet fields.--The act of Ahab and Jezebel in coveting and acquiring Naboth's vineyard by violence and murder was no isolated incident. The desire to accumulate property in land, in contravention of the Mosaic Law, was denounced by Micah's contemporary, Isaiah: "Woe unto them that join house to house. that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth" (Isaiah 5:8).
