Micah 2:3

"They covet fields and seize them, and houses, then take them away. They oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage."

Key Reflection

In Micah 2:3, the spiritual meaning lies in the description of greed and injustice; those who covet and seize property are not just harming individuals but also breaking God's covenant. By oppressing people and their homes, these individuals are violating divine law and bringing about their own downfall, as this verse foreshadows the judgment that will come upon them for such wicked behavior.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Such had been their habitual doings. They had done all this, he says, as one continuous act, up to that time. They were habitually devisers of iniquity, doers of evil. It was ever-renewed. By night they sinned in heart and thought; by day, in act. And so he speaks of it in the present. They do it. But, although renewed in fresh acts, it was one unbroken course of acting. And so he also uses the form, in which the Hebrews spoke of uninterrupted habits, They have coveted, they have robbed, they have taken. Now came God’s part.

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