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Therefore you shall have none who shall cast the line by lot in the assembly of Yahweh.
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Loss of the Promised Land
Commentators unanimously explain that "casting the line by lot" refers to the sacred process of dividing the Promised Land. This verse pronounces a devastating judgment: because of their oppression, the people will be exiled and lose their physical inheritance. The very land that symbolized God's covenant promise would be taken from them.
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Micah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Therefore you shall have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the Lord - You, in the first instance, are the impenitent…
19th Century
Anglican
You shall have none ... —i.e., you shall have no part or inheritance in the congregation of the Lord—apparently referring…
16th Century
Protestant
Here the Prophet concludes his discourse concerning God’s design to cleanse Judea of its perverse and wicked inhabitants, so that it might no longe…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Therefore you shall have none that shall cast a cord by lot , &c.] This confirms what was before delivered in a para…
Woe to the people who devise evil during the night, and rise early to carry it into execution! It is bad to commit mischief on a sudden impulse, mu…
