Micah 2:2 Cross References

Micah 2:2

2: When you want a certain piece of land, you find a way to seize it. When you want someone's house, you take it by fraud and violence. No one's family or inheritance is safe with you around!

Isaiah 5:8

  1. Destruction is certain for you who buy up property so others have no place to live. Your homes are built on great estates so you can be alone in the land.

Amos 8:4

  1. Listen to this, you who rob the poor and trample the needy!

Jeremiah 22:17

  1. "But you! You are full of selfish greed and dishonesty! You murder the innocent, oppress the poor, and reign ruthlessly."

1 Kings 21:2

  1. One day Ahab said to Naboth, "Since your vineyard is so convenient to the palace, I would like to buy it to use as a vegetable garden. I will give you a better vineyard in exchange, or if you prefer, I will pay you for it."
  2. But Naboth replied, "The LORD forbid that I should give you the inheritance that was passed down by my ancestors."
  3. So Ahab went home angry and sullen because of Naboth's answer. The king went to bed with his face to the wall and refused to eat!
  4. "What in the world is the matter?" his wife, Jezebel, asked him. "What has made you so upset that you are not eating?"
  5. "I asked Naboth to sell me his vineyard or to trade it, and he refused!" Ahab told her.

Ezekiel 18:12

  1. oppresses the poor and helpless, steals from debtors by refusing to let them redeem what they have given in pledge, worships idols and takes part in loathsome practices,

Matthew 23:13

  1. "How terrible it will be for you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you won't let others enter the Kingdom of Heaven, and you won't go in yourselves.

Exodus 22:21

  1. "Do not oppress foreigners in any way. Remember, you yourselves were once foreigners in the land of Egypt.
  2. "Do not exploit widows or orphans.
  3. If you do and they cry out to me, then I will surely help them.
  4. My anger will blaze forth against you, and I will kill you with the sword. Your wives will become widows, and your children will become fatherless.

2 Kings 9:26

  1. `I solemnly swear that I will repay him here on Naboth's property, says the LORD, for the murder of Naboth and his sons that I saw yesterday.' So throw him out on Naboth's field, just as the LORD said."

Micah 3:9

  1. Listen to me, you leaders of Israel! You hate justice and twist all that is right.

Malachi 3:5

  1. At that time I will put you on trial. I will be a ready witness against all sorcerers and adulterers and liars. I will speak against those who cheat employees of their wages, who oppress widows and orphans, or who deprive the foreigners living among you of justice, for these people do not fear me," says the LORD Almighty.

Habakkuk 2:5

  1. Wealth is treacherous, and the arrogant are never at rest. They range far and wide, with their mouths opened as wide as death, but they are never satisfied. In their greed they have gathered up many nations and peoples.
  2. But the time is coming when all their captives will taunt them, saying, `You thieves! At last justice has caught up with you! Now you will get what you deserve for your oppression and extortion!'
  3. Suddenly, your debtors will rise up in anger. They will turn on you and take all you have, while you stand trembling and helpless.
  4. You have plundered many nations; now they will plunder you. You murderers! You have filled the countryside with violence and all the cities, too.
  5. "How terrible it will be for you who get rich by unjust means! You believe your wealth will buy security, putting your families beyond the reach of danger.

Job 31:38

  1. "If my land accuses me and all its furrows weep together,

Ezekiel 22:12

  1. There are hired murderers, loan racketeers, and extortioners everywhere! They never even think of me and my commands, says the Sovereign LORD.

1 Timothy 6:10

  1. For the love of money is at the root of all kinds of evil. And some people, craving money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.

Job 24:2

  1. Evil people steal land by moving the boundary markers. They steal flocks of sheep,
  2. and they even take donkeys from the poor and fatherless. A poor widow must surrender her valuable ox as collateral for a loan.
  3. The poor are kicked aside; the needy must hide together for safety.
  4. Like the wild donkeys in the desert, the poor must spend all their time just getting enough to keep body and soul together. They go into the desert to search for food for their children.
  5. They harvest a field they do not own, and they glean in the vineyards of the wicked.

Exodus 20:17

  1. "Do not covet your neighbor's house. Do not covet your neighbor's wife, male or female servant, ox or donkey, or anything else your neighbor owns."

1 Samuel 12:3

  1. Now tell me as I stand before the LORD and before his anointed one--whose ox or donkey have I stolen? Have I ever cheated any of you? Have I ever oppressed you? Have I ever taken a bribe? Tell me and I will make right whatever I have done wrong."
  2. "No," they replied, "you have never cheated or oppressed us in any way, and you have never taken even a single bribe."

Nehemiah 5:1

  1. About this time some of the men and their wives raised a cry of protest against their fellow Jews.
  2. They were saying, "We have such large families. We need more money just so we can buy the food we need to survive."
  3. Others said, "We have mortgaged our fields, vineyards, and homes to get food during the famine."
  4. And others said, "We have already borrowed to the limit on our fields and vineyards to pay our taxes.
  5. We belong to the same family, and our children are just like theirs. Yet we must sell our children into slavery just to get enough money to live. We have already sold some of our daughters, and we are helpless to do anything about it, for our fields and vineyards are already mortgaged to others."
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