Micah 2:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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

Cross References

Isaiah 5:8

Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field until there is no more room and you alone are left in the land.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who trample on the needy and do away with the poor of the land,

Jeremiah 22:17

But you have eyes and a heart for nothing except your own dishonest profit, shedding innocent blood and committing extortion and oppression.

Ezekiel 18:12

and when he oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, and does not return collateral, and when he looks to the idols, commits detestable acts,

1 Timothy 6:10

For the love of money is a root  of all kinds of evil, and by craving it, some have wandered away from the faith  and pierced themselves with many griefs.

Matthew 23:13

‘Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you don’t go in, and you don’t allow those entering to go in.   ,

Malachi 3:5

‘I will come to you in judgement, and I will be ready to witness against sorcerers and adulterers; against those who swear falsely; against those who oppress the hired worker, the widow, and the fatherless; and against those who deny justice to the resident foreigner.  They do not fear me,’  says the Lord of Armies.

Micah 3:9

Listen to this, leaders of the house of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice and pervert everything that is right,

Ezekiel 22:12

People who live in you accept bribes in order to shed blood.  You take interest and profit on a loan and brutally extort your neighbours.  You have forgotten me.  This is the declaration of the Lord God.

2 Kings 9:26

“As surely as I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday” #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #“so will I repay you on this plot of land” #– #this is the Lord’s declaration. So now, according to the word of the Lord, pick him up and throw him on the plot of land.’

Exodus 20:17

Do not covet your neighbour’s house. Do not covet your neighbour’s wife, his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbour.

Job 31:38

If my land cries out against me and its furrows join in weeping,

1 Kings 21:1

Some time passed after these events. Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard; it was in Jezreel  next to the palace of King Ahab of Samaria.

Ezekiel 8:17

And he said to me, ‘Do you see this, son of man? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the detestable acts they are doing here, that they must also fill the land with violence  and repeatedly anger me,  even putting the branch to their nose?

Ezekiel 22:13

‘ “Now look, I clap my hands together against the dishonest profit you have made  and against the blood shed among you.

Ezekiel 33:26

You have relied on your swords, you have committed detestable acts, and each of you has defiled his neighbour’s wife. Should you then receive possession of the land? ”

Ezekiel 46:18

The prince must not take any of the people’s inheritance, 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 own property.’

Amos 2:7

They trample the heads of the poor on the dust of the ground and obstruct the path of the needy. A man and his father have sexual relations with the same girl, profaning my holy name.

Micah 6:12

For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; the tongues in their mouths are deceitful.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord brings this charge against the elders and leaders of his people: ‘You have devastated the vineyard. The plunder from the poor is in your houses.

Ezekiel 45:9

‘This is what the Lord God says: You have gone too far,  , princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression and do what is just and right.  Put an end to your evictions of my people.’ This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Amos 4:1

Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who are on the hill of Samaria, women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to their husbands, ‘Bring us something to drink.’