SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:2
Y codiciaron las heredades, y las robaron; y casas, y las tomaron; oprimieron al hombre y a su casa, al hombre y a su heredad.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Micah 2:2
Verse 2. They covet fields] These are the rich and mighty in the land; and, like Ahab, they will take the vineyard or inheritance of any poor Naboth on which they may fix their covetous eye; so that they take away even the heritage of the poor.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 2. And they covet fields, and take [them] by violence , etc.] The fields of their poor neighbours, which lie near them, and convenient for them; they wish they were theirs, and they contrive ways and means to get them into their possession; and if they cannot get them by fair means, if they cannot persuade them to sell them, or at their price, they will either use some crafty method to get them from them, or they will take them away by force and violence; as Ahab got Naboth’s vineyard from him: and houses, and take [them] away ; they covet the houses of their neighbours also, and take the same course to get them out of their hands, and add them to their own estates: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage ; not only dispossess him of his house to dwell in, but of his paternal inheritance, what he received from his ancestors, and should have transmitted to his posterity, being unalienable; and so distressed a man and his family for the present, and his posterity after him. The Vulgate Latin version is, “they calumniate a man and his house”; which seems to be designed to make it agree with the story of Ahab, ( 1 Kings 21:13).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-5 - Woe to the people that devise evil during the night, and rise early to carry it into execution! It is bad to do mischief on a sudden thought much worse to do it with design and forethought. It is of great momen to improve and employ hours of retirement and solitude in a prope manner. If covetousness reigns in the heart, compassion is banished and when the heart is thus engaged, violence and fraud commonly occup the hands. The most haughty and secure in prosperity, are commonly mos ready to despair in adversity. Woe to those from whom God turns away Those are the sorest calamities which cut us off from the congregatio of the Lord, or cut us short in the enjoyment of its privileges.
Original Hebrew
וחמדו 2530 שׂדות 7704 וגזלו 1497 ובתים 1004 ונשׂאו 5375 ועשׁקו 6231 גבר 1397 וביתו 1004 ואישׁ 376 ונחלתו׃ 5159
