Micah 2:2

Modern English Version

They covet fields and seize them, and houses and take them. They defraud a man of his house, and a fellow man of his inheritance.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:1

Now Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard in Jezreel right by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

2 Kings 9:26

‘Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth and his sons, declares the Lord, and I will pay you back on this property, declares the Lord.’ Now lift him up and throw him onto the property, according to the word of the Lord.”

Job 31:38

“If my land cries out against me, and its furrows also weep together;

Exodus 20:17

You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord will enter into judgment with the elders and the princes of His people: For you have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 5:8

Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more space where they may live alone in the midst of the land!

Jeremiah 22:17

But your eyes and your heart are intent only on your covetousness and on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and violence.

Ezekiel 18:12

has oppressed the poor and needy, has devastated by violence, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,

Ezekiel 22:12

In you they have taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken usury and increase, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by extortion, and you have forgotten Me, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 22:13

Behold, therefore, I have struck My hand toward your dishonest gain which you have made, and toward your blood which has been in your midst.

Ezekiel 33:26

You rely upon your sword, you work abominations, and every one of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. Should you then possess the land?

Ezekiel 45:9

Thus says the Lord God: Let it suffice you officials of Israel. Remove violence and destruction, and execute justice and righteousness. Take away your exactions from My people, says the Lord God.

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 so that My people not be scattered, every man from his possession.

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 continually provoked Me to anger. And behold, they put the branch to their nose.

Amos 2:7

They trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth, and push the oppressed out of the way. A man and his father go in to the same woman, profaning My holy name.

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to their husbands, “Bring us something to drink!”

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who trample on the needy to make the poor of the land fail,

Micah 3:9

Please hear this, heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who detest justice and warp all that is straight,

Micah 6:12

Her wealthy men are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak deception, and their tongue in their mouth is treachery.

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who turn aside the stranger, and do not fear Me, says the Lord of Hosts.

Matthew 23:13

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven against men. For you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who are entering to go in.

1 Timothy 6:10

For the love of money is a root of all evil. While coveting after money, some have strayed from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.