Micah 2:2
New International Version
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, they rob them of their inheritance.

New Living Translation
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
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.

Berean Standard Bible
They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of 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.

New King James Version
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.

New American Standard Bible
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.

NASB 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.

NASB 1977
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.

Legacy Standard Bible
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.

Amplified Bible
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.

Christian Standard Bible
They covet fields and seize them; they also take houses. They deprive a man of his home, a person of his inheritance.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They covet fields and seize them; they also take houses. They deprive a man of his home, a person of his inheritance.

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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And they lust for fields and houses and they take them by force, and they oppress a man in his property and in his inheritance

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And they desired fields, and plundered orphans, and oppressed families, and spoiled a man and his house, even a man and his inheritance.

Contemporary English Version
You grab any field or house that you want; you cheat families out of homes and land.

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.

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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
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.

Good News Translation
When they want fields, they seize them; when they want houses, they take them. No one's family or property is safe.

International Standard Version
They covet fields and seize them; they covet houses, and grab them, too. They harass the valiant man, along with his household, an individual and his estate.

JPS Tanakh 1917
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.

Literal Standard Version
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.

Majority Standard Bible
They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.

New American Bible
You covet fields, and seize them; houses, and take them; You cheat owners of their houses, people of their inheritance.

NET Bible
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.

New Revised Standard Version
They covet fields, and seize them; houses, and take them away; they oppress householder and house, people and their inheritance.

New Heart 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.

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, then take them away. 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.

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Context
Woe to the Oppressors
1Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands. 2They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance. 3Therefore 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.…

Cross References
1 Kings 21:1
Some time later, Naboth the Jezreelite happened to own a vineyard in Jezreel next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

Isaiah 5:8
Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.

Jeremiah 22:17
"But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression."

Ezekiel 8:17
"Son of man," He said to me, "do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and continually provoke Me to anger? Look, they are even putting the branch to their nose!

Ezekiel 22:13
Now look, I strike My hands together against your unjust gain and against the blood you have shed in your midst.

Ezekiel 33:26
You have relied on your swords, you have committed detestable acts, and each of you has defiled his neighbor's wife. Should you then possess the land?'

Ezekiel 46:18
The prince must not take any of the inheritance of the people by evicting them from their property. He is to provide an inheritance for his sons from his own property, so that none of My people will be displaced from his property.'"


Treasury of Scripture

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.

Exodus 20:17
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

1 Kings 21:2-19
And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money…

Job 31:38
If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

so.

Micah 3:9
Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

Exodus 22:21-24
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt…

2 Kings 9:26
Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground, according to the word of the LORD.

oppress.

1 Samuel 12:3,4
Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you…

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Micah 2
1. Against oppression.
4. A lamentation.
7. A reproof of injustice and idolatry.
12. A promise to restore Jacob.














(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).

Verse 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.

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Hebrew
They covet
וְחָמְד֤וּ (wə·ḥā·mə·ḏū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2530: To desire, take pleasure in

fields
שָׂדוֹת֙ (śā·ḏō·wṯ)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 7704: Field, land

and seize them,
וְגָזָ֔לוּ (wə·ḡā·zā·lū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 1497: To pluck off, to flay, strip, rob

and they take away
וְנָשָׂ֑אוּ (wə·nā·śā·’ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take

houses.
וּבָתִּ֖ים (ū·ḇāt·tîm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1004: A house

They deprive
וְעָֽשְׁקוּ֙ (wə·‘ā·šə·qū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 6231: To press upon, oppress, defraud, violate, overflow

a man
גֶּ֣בֶר (ge·ḇer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1397: A valiant man, warrior, a person simply

of his home,
וּבֵית֔וֹ (ū·ḇê·ṯōw)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1004: A house

a fellow man
וְאִ֖ישׁ (wə·’îš)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

of his inheritance.
וְנַחֲלָתֽוֹ׃ (wə·na·ḥă·lā·ṯōw)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5159: Something inherited, occupancy, an heirloom, an estate, patrimony, portion


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