Micah 2:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For this cause you will have no one to make the decision by the measuring line in the meeting of the Lord.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 32:8 : 8 When the Most High gave the nations their heritage, separating into groups the children of men, he had the limits of the peoples marked out, keeping in mind the number of the children of Israel.
  • Josh 18:4 : 4 Take from among you three men from every tribe; and I will send them to go through the land and make a record of it for distribution as their heritage; then let them come back to me.
  • Josh 18:10 : 10 And Joshua made the distribution for them in Shiloh by the decision of the Lord, marking out the land for the children of Israel by their divisions.
  • Neh 7:61 : 61 All these were the people who went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but because they had no knowledge of their fathers' families or offspring, it was not certain if they were Israelites:
  • Ps 16:6 : 6 Fair are the places marked out for me; I have a noble heritage.
  • Hos 9:3 : 3 They will have no resting-place in the Lord's land, but Ephraim will go back to Egypt, and they will take unclean food in Assyria.
  • Deut 23:2 : 2 One whose father and mother are not married may not come into the meeting of the Lord's people, or any of his family to the tenth generation.
  • Deut 23:8 : 8 Their children in the third generation may come into the meeting of the Lord's people.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 18:1-2
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    76%

    1The priests, the Levites, that is, all the tribe of Levi, will have no part or heritage with Israel: their food and their heritage will be the offerings of the Lord made by fire.

    2And they will have no heritage among their countrymen: the Lord is their heritage, as he has said to them.

  • Mic 2:6
    76%

    6Let not words like these be dropped, they say: Shame and the curse will not come to the family of Jacob!

  • Mic 2:4
    74%

    4In that day this saying will be said about you, and this song of grief will be made: The heritage of my people is measured out, and there is no one to give it back; those who have made us prisoners have taken our fields from us, and complete destruction has come to us.

  • Isa 34:17
    73%

    17And he has given them their heritage, and by his hand it has been measured out to them: it will be theirs for ever, their resting-place from generation to generation.

  • Josh 18:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6And you are to have the land marked out in seven parts, and come back to me with the record; and I will make the distribution for you here by the decision of the Lord our God.

    7For the Levites have no part among you; to be the Lord's priests is their heritage; and Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have had their heritage on the east side of Jordan, given to them by Moses, the servant of the Lord.

  • Num 1:48-49
    2 verses
    72%

    48For the Lord said to Moses,

    49Only the tribe of Levi is not to be numbered among the children of Israel,

  • Deut 12:4
    71%

    4Do not so to the Lord your God.

  • Num 18:20
    71%

    20And the Lord said to Aaron, You will have no heritage in their land, or any part among them; I am your part and your heritage among the children of Israel.

  • Deut 10:9
    71%

    9For this reason Levi has no part or heritage for himself among his brothers: the Lord is his heritage, as the Lord your God said to him.)

  • Deut 19:14
    70%

    14Your neighbour's landmark, which was put in its place by the men of old times, is not to be moved or taken away in the land of your heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Exod 23:32
    70%

    32Make no agreement with them or with their gods.

  • Josh 22:25
    70%

    25For the Lord has made Jordan a line of division between us and you, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad; you have no part in the Lord: so your children will make our children give up fearing the Lord.

  • Isa 14:20
    70%

    20As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in their resting-place, because you have been the cause of destruction to your land, and of death to your people; the seed of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man.

  • Jer 16:2
    70%

    2You are not to take a wife for yourself or have sons or daughters in this place.

  • Num 26:56
    70%

    56As it is ordered by the decision of the Lord, let distribution be made between those who are more in number and those who are less.

  • Deut 25:13-14
    2 verses
    70%

    13Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small;

    14Or in your house different measures, a great and a small.

  • Exod 34:17
    70%

    17Make for yourselves no gods of metal.

  • 2 Chr 23:6
    70%

    6But let no one come into the house of the Lord but only the priests and those of the Levites who have work to do there; they may go in for they are holy; but the rest of the people are to keep the orders of the Lord.

  • Deut 14:27
    70%

    27And give a thought to the Levite who is living among you, for he has no part or heritage in the land.

  • Prov 1:14
    70%

    14Take your chance with us, and we will all have one money-bag:

  • Exod 23:2
    70%

    2Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision:

  • Deut 15:4
    69%

    4But there will be no poor among you; for the Lord will certainly give you his blessing in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage;

  • Judg 2:2
    69%

    2And you are to make no agreement with the people of this land; you are to see that their altars are broken down: but you have not given ear to my voice: what have you done?

  • Ps 81:9
    69%

    9There is to be no strange god among you; you are not to give worship to any other god.

  • Num 18:22-23
    2 verses
    69%

    22In future the children of Israel are not to come near the Tent of meeting, so that death may not come to them because of sin.

    23But the Levites are to do the work of the Tent of meeting, and be responsible for errors in connection with it: this is a law for ever through all your generations; and among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.

  • Deut 13:11
    69%

    11And all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and no one will again do such evil as this among you.

  • Obad 1:11
    69%

    11Because you were there watching when men from other lands took away his goods, and strange men came into his doors, and put the fate of Jerusalem to the decision of chance; you were like one of them.

  • Lev 19:35
    69%

    35Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures.

  • Mic 5:12
    69%

    12And I will have your images and your pillars cut off from you; and you will no longer give worship to the work of your hands.

  • Deut 23:2
    69%

    2One whose father and mother are not married may not come into the meeting of the Lord's people, or any of his family to the tenth generation.

  • Jer 35:7
    69%

    7And you are to make no houses, or put in seed, or get vine-gardens planted, or have any: but all your days you are to go on living in tents, so that you may have a long life in the land where you are living as in a strange country.

  • Num 2:33
    69%

    33But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel, as the Lord said to Moses.

  • Deut 18:14
    69%

    14For these nations, whose land you are taking, give attention to readers of signs and to those using secret arts: but the Lord your God will not let you do so.

  • Obad 1:14
    69%

    14And do not take your place at the cross-roads, cutting off those of his people who get away; and do not give up to their haters those who are still there in the day of trouble.

  • Deut 7:26
    69%

    26And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.

  • Deut 13:17
    69%

    17Keep not a thing of what is cursed for yourselves: so the Lord may be turned away from the heat of his wrath, and have mercy on you, and give you increase as he said in his oath to your fathers:

  • Lev 19:15
    69%

    15Do no wrong in your judging: do not give thought to the position of the poor, or honour to the position of the great; but be a judge to your neighbour in righteousness.

  • 1 Chr 25:8
    69%

    8And selection was made of them for their special work, all having equal chances, small as well as great, the teacher as the learner.

  • Ezek 12:24
    69%

    24For there will be no more false visions or smooth use of secret arts in Israel.

  • Num 33:54
    69%

    54And you will take up your heritage in the land by the decision of the Lord, to every family its part; the greater the family the greater its heritage, and the smaller the family the smaller will be its heritage; wherever the decision of the Lord gives to any man his part, that will be his; distribution will be made to you by your fathers' tribes.

  • Deut 18:9
    69%

    9When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, do not take as your example the disgusting ways of those nations.

  • Num 14:42
    69%

    42Go not up, for the Lord is not with you, and you will be overcome by those who are fighting against you.

  • 1 Sam 2:32
    69%

    32And never again will there be an old man in your family.

  • Deut 22:11
    69%

    11Do not have clothing made of two sorts of thread, wool and linen together.

  • Num 36:7
    68%

    7And so no property will be handed from tribe to tribe among the children of Israel; but every one of the children of Israel will keep the heritage of his father's tribe.