Private Property

Micah explains the reason for joining house to house and field to field. The wicked covet their neighbor's property, and they lay awake at night planning how to take that property for their own. Property, or material wealth, means power, power to serve their own covetous interest. They use their power to take what they desire by violence; power to oppress others and remove the inheritance owned by the innocent. (Confiscatory tax laws forcefully strip the inheritance
from the family, particularly from farm families.)