Micah 2:2
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New International Version (©1984)
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud a man of his home, a fellowman of his inheritance.

New Living Translation (©2007)
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.

English Standard Version (©2001)
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They desire [other people's] fields, so they seize them. They desire [people's] houses, so they take them. They cheat a man and his family, a man and his inheritance.

King James Bible
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.

American King James Version
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.

American Standard Version
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.

Bible in Basic English
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Darby Bible Translation
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.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
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.

Young's Literal Translation
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.

Geneva Study Bible

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.

Wesley's Notes

2:2 And his house - His family, which by this means is left to poverty. And his heritage - And this is done against ancient right and possession, nay, in a case where God hath forbidden them to sell their heritage.

King James Translators' Notes

oppress: or, defraud

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

2. Parallelism, "Take by violence," answers to "take away"; "fields" and "houses," to "house" and "heritage" (that is, one's land).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

2:1-5 Woe to the people that devise evil during the night, and rise early to carry it into execution! It is bad to do mischief on a sudden thought, much worse to do it with design and forethought. It is of great moment to improve and employ hours of retirement and solitude in a proper manner. If covetousness reigns in the heart, compassion is banished; and when the heart is thus engaged, violence and fraud commonly occupy the hands. The most haughty and secure in prosperity, are commonly most ready to despair in adversity. Woe to those from whom God turns away! Those are the sorest calamities which cut us off from the congregation of the Lord, or cut us short in the enjoyment of its privileges.


1 Kings 21:1 Now it came about after these things that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard which was in Jezreel beside the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
Isaiah 5:8 Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field, Until there is no more room, So that you have to live alone in the midst of the land!
Jeremiah 22:17 "But your eyes and your heart Are intent only upon your own dishonest gain, And on shedding innocent blood And on practicing oppression and extortion."
Amos 8:4 Hear this, you who trample the needy, to do away with the humble of the land, (NASB ©1995)

Covet Cruel Defraud Desire Desired Fellowman Fields Force Heritage Home House Houses Inheritance Oppress Oppressed Rob Seize Violence Violently


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. Ex 20:17 1Ki 21:2-19 Job 31:38 Isa 5:8 Jer 22:17 Am 8:4 Hab 2:5-9 1Ti 6:10

so. 3:9 Ex 22:21-24 2Ki 9:26 Ne 5:1-5 Job 24:2-12 Eze 18:12 22:12 Am 8:4 Mal 3:5 Mt 23:14

oppress. or, defraud. 1Sa 12:3,4

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