Micah 2:2

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

They coveted fields, and took violently; and ravished houses, and falsely challenged a man and his house, a man and his heritage.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:1

Forsooth after these words, in that time, the vinery [or vine] of Naboth of Jezreel, that was in Jezreel, was beside the palace of Ahab, king of Samaria.

2 Kings 9:26

If not for the blood of Naboth, and for the blood of his sons, which I saw yesterday, saith the Lord, I shall yield to thee in this field, saith the Lord. Now therefore do thou away him, and cast forth him in the field, by the word of the Lord.

Job 31:38

If my land crieth against me, and his furrows weep with it;

Exodus 20:17

Thou shalt not covet the house of thy neighbour, neither thou shalt desire his wife, nor his servant, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his ass, neither all things that be his.

Isaiah 3:14

the Lord shall come to doom, with the elder men of his people, and with his princes; for ye have wasted my vineyard, and the raven of a poor man is in your house.

Isaiah 5:8

Woe to you that join house to house, and couple field to field, till to the end of [a] place. Whether ye alone shall dwell in the midst of the land?

Jeremiah 22:17

Forsooth thine eyes and heart be to avarice, and to shed innocent blood, and to false challenge, and to the performing of evil work.

Ezekiel 18:12

making sorrowful a needy man and poor, ravishing ravens, not yielding a wed, raising his eyes to idols, doing abomination;

Ezekiel 22:12

They took gifts of thee, to shed out blood; thou tookest usury and over-abundance, and thou challengedest greedily thy neighbours, and thou hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.

Ezekiel 22:13

Lo! I have smitten together mine hands on thine avarice, [or greediness], which thou didest, and on the blood which is shed out in the midst of thee.

Ezekiel 33:26

Ye stood in your swords, ye did your abominations, and each man defouled the wife of his neighbour; and shall ye wield the land by heritage?

Ezekiel 45:9

The Lord God saith these things, O! princes of Israel, suffice it to you, leave ye wickedness and raven, and do ye doom and rightfulness; part ye your nigh coasts from my people, saith the Lord God.

Ezekiel 46:18

And the prince shall not take by violence of the heritage of the people, and of the possession of them; but of his own possession he shall give heritage to his sons, that my people be not scattered, each man from his possession.

Ezekiel 8:17

And the Lord said to me, Certainly, son of man, thou hast seen; whether this is a light thing to the house of Judah, that they should do these abominations, which they did here? For they filled the land with wicked-ness, and turned to stir me to wrath; and lo! they apply a branch to their nostrils.

Amos 2:7

Which all-foul the heads of poor men on the dust of [the] earth, and bow away the way of meek men; and the son and his father went to a damsel, that they should defoul mine holy name.

Amos 4:1

Ye fat kine, that be in the mount of Samaria, hear this word; which make false challenge to needy men, and break poor men; which say to your lords, Bring ye, and we shall drink.

Amos 8:4

Hear ye this thing, which all-break a poor man, and make needy men of the land for to fail;

Micah 3:9

Hear these things, ye princes of the house of Jacob, and doomsmen of the house of Israel, which loathe doom, and pervert all right things;

Micah 6:12

in which rich men thereof be filled with wickedness? And men dwelling therein spake leasing, and the tongue of them was guileful in the mouth of them.

Malachi 3:5

And I shall come to you in doom, and I shall be a swift witness to mis-doers, either enchanters of devil’s craft, and to adulterers, and to forsworn men, and that falsely challenge the hire of an hired man, and widows, and fatherless children, and oppress a pilgrim, and dreaded not me, saith the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 23:13

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, that close the kingdom of heavens [or the realm of heaven] before men; and ye enter not, neither suffer other men entering to enter.

1 Timothy 6:10

For the root of all evils is covetousness, which some men coveting erred from the faith, and besetted them with many sorrows.