Micah 5:1

Now gather thyself together, O daughter of troops, A siege he hath laid against us, With a rod they smite on the cheek the judge of Israel.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

In Context

2And thou, Beth-Lehem Ephratah, Little to be among the chiefs of Judah! From thee to Me he cometh forth — to be ruler in Israel, And his comings forth [are] of old, From the days of antiquity.

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Cross References

Genesis 49:10The sceptre turneth not aside from Judah, And a lawgiver from between his feet, Till his Seed come; And his [is] the obedience of peoples.

Deuteronomy 28:51and it hath eaten the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, till thou art destroyed; which leaveth not to thee corn, new wine, and oil, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock, till it hath destroyed thee.

Judges 17:7And there is a young man of Beth-Lehem-Judah, of the family of Judah, and he [is] a Levite, and he [is] a sojourner there.

1 Kings 22:24And Zedekiah son of Chenaanah draweth nigh, and smiteth Micaiah on the cheek, and saith, 'Where [is] this — he hath passed over — the Spirit of Jehovah — from me to speak with thee?'

2 Kings 25:1And it cometh to pass, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth of the month, come hath Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, he and all his force, against Jerusalem, and encampeth against it, and buildeth against it a fortification round about.

Proverbs 8:23From the age I was anointed, from the first, From former states of the earth.

Matthew Henry on Micah 5:1

In this chapter we have, I. A prediction of the troubles and distresses of the Jewish nation, ver. 1 . II. A promise of the Messiah, and of his kingdom, to support the people of God in the day of these troubles. 1. Of the birth of the Messiah, ver. 4 . 3. Of his protection of his people, and his victory over his and their enemies, ver. 5, 6 . 4. Of the great world by it, ver. 7 . 5. Of the destruction of the enemies of the church, both those without, that attack it, and those within, that expose it, ver. 8-15 . Read the whole commentary →

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