Micah 2:13

Your leader will enable them to leave the countries where they have been exiled; he will lead them out of the gates of their enemies’ cities, back to your own country. Your king will lead them; it is I, Yahweh, who will be their king!”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.

In Context

12“ But some day, you descendants of Jacob, you Israeli people who have survived, I will bring you back from ◄exile/other countries►, I will gather you together like [SIM] a shepherd gathers his sheep from the pasture into a pen [DOU]; there will be many of you in your land/country.

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Cross References

Exodus 14:19Then the angel of God, who had been in front of the Israeli people, moved and went behind them. The tall bright cloud that had been in front of them also moved behind them,

Isaiah 42:7You will enable blind [IDM] people to see, you will free those who are in prison (OR, who are bound by the guilt of their sins) [MET] and release those who are in dark dungeons.

Isaiah 45:1Cyrus is the one whom Yahweh has appointed to be the emperor of Persia and to whom he will give great power [IDM]; Yahweh will enable him to defeat other nations and to take away the power of their kings. He will cause gates of cities to be opened, and no one will ever be able to shut them.

Isaiah 49:24There is no one [RHQ] who can snatch valuable things from a soldier who has captured those things in a war; there is no one [RHQ] who can force a ◄tyrant/cruel man► to free the people whom he has captured.

Isaiah 51:12Yahweh says, “I am the one who encourages you. So ◄why are you/you should not be► [RHQ] afraid of humans who will wither and disappear like [MET] grass.

Isaiah 55:4By what he did, I showed my power to many people-groups; I caused him to be a leader and commander [DOU] over the people of many nations.

Matthew Henry on Micah 2:13

Promises of Mercy. ( b. c. 740.) 12 I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men. 13 The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord on the head of them. After threatenings of wrath, the chapter here… Read the whole commentary →

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