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

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Parallel Verses

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.

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.

New American Standard Bible
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:1
And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

Isaiah 5:8
Woe to them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the middle of the earth!

Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

Ezekiel 8:17
Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, see, they put the branch to their nose.

Ezekiel 22:13
Behold, therefore I have smitten my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in the middle of you.

Ezekiel 33:26
You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and you defile every one his neighbor's wife: and shall you possess the land?

Ezekiel 46:18
Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.

Amos 2:7
That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in to the same maid, to profane my holy name:

Amos 8:4
Hear this, O you that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

Micah 6:12
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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