Bible Strands
Micah 2:9
You drive the women of My people from their pleasant homes. You take away My blessing from their children forever.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Yahweh speaks through the prophet Micah to the corrupt leaders and people of Israel during a period of systemic oppression and impending national crisis.
The words — תְּגָ֣רְשׁ֔וּ (teGa.reShu/n) = you drive out and תִּקְח֥וּ (tik.Chu) = you take away.
The thread — The text's theme of stripping homes and cutting off blessings runs to Luke 20:47, where Jesus condemns those who defraud widows of their houses, and connects to Ezekiel 39:21 and Habakkuk 2:14, which frame such injustice within God's broader display of judgment and glory among the nations.
Why it lands — The passage demands recognition that seizing property and cutting off the vulnerable invites direct divine reversal, requiring immediate repentance before the promised destruction arrives.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
Cross-references
- Ezekiel 39:21 I will display My glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the judgment that I execute and the hand that I lay upon them.
- Habakkuk 2:14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
- Luke 20:47 They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.”
- 1 Samuel 26:19 Now please, may my lord the king hear the words of his servant: If the LORD has stirred you up against me, then may He accept an offering. But if men have done it, may they be cursed in the presence of the LORD! For today they have driven me away from sharing in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’
- Psalms 72:19 And blessed be His glorious name forever; may all the earth be filled with His glory. Amen and amen.
- Jeremiah 10:20 My tent is destroyed, and all its ropes are snapped. My sons have departed from me and are no more. I have no one left to pitch my tent or set up my curtains.
- Joel 3:6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.
- Micah 2:2 They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.
- Zechariah 2:5 For I will be a wall of fire around it, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory within it.’”
- Matthew 23:13 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.