Therefore, you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by lot.
Parallel translations
- WEB Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in Yahweh’s assembly.
- KJV Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.
- NKJV Therefore you will have no one to determine boundaries by lot In the assembly of the Lord.
- NASB “Therefore you will have no one applying a measuring line For you by lot in the assembly of the Lord.
- NLT Others will set your boundaries then, and the Lord’s people will have no say in how the land is divided.
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Quick answer
The oppressors will have no one to mark out land for them in the LORD's assembly. It declares their exclusion from the future restored inheritance.
Overview
Dividing land 'by lot' recalls the original allotment of Canaan among the tribes. Micah announces that these land-grabbers will be cut off from any share when God restores His people. Their grasping greed forfeits the very inheritance they craved.
Cross-references & the web
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- Josh 18:4Appoint 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
- Deut 32:8When 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.
- Josh 18:10And 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.
- Neh 7:61The following came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but could not prove that their families were descended from Israel:
- Hos 9:3They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.
- Ps 16:6The lines of my boundary have fallen in pleasant places; surely my inheritance is delightful.
- Deut 23:2No one of illegitimate birth may enter the assembly of the LORD, nor may any of his descendants, even to the tenth generation.
- Deut 23:8The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.
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