Micah 2:5 “Therefore, you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide…”

Micah 2:5

Therefore, you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by lot.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in the LORD’s assembly.

American Standard Version

Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the line by lot in the assembly of Jehovah.

Geneva Bible 1599

Therefore thou shalt haue none that shall cast a corde by lot in the Congregation of the Lord.

Darby Translation

Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the measuring line upon a lot, in the congregation of Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation

Therefore, thou hast no caster of a line by lot In the assembly of Jehovah.

Bible in Basic English

For this cause you will have no one to make the decision by the measuring line in the meeting of the Lord.

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Cross references

“cast”

Deuteronomy 32:8 Joshua 18:4 Joshua 18:10 Psalm 16:6 Hosea 9:3

Deuteronomy 32:8 · BSB

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.

Joshua 18:4 · BSB

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

Joshua 18:10 · BSB

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.

Psalm 16:6 · BSB

The lines of my boundary have fallen in pleasant places; surely my inheritance is delightful.

Hosea 9:3 · BSB

They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.

“the congregation”

Deuteronomy 23:2 Deuteronomy 23:8 Nehemiah 7:61

Deuteronomy 23:2 · BSB

No one of illegitimate birth may enter the assembly of the LORD, nor may any of his descendants, even to the tenth generation.

Deuteronomy 23:8 · BSB

The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.

Nehemiah 7:61 · BSB

The following came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but they could not prove that their families were descended from Israel:

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4In 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.’”

6“Do not preach,” they preach. “Do not preach these things; disgrace will not overtake us.”

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