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Micah 5

Mic. 5:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Now gather
gadad (Hebrew #1413)
to crowd; also to gash (as if by pressing into)
KJV usage: assemble (selves by troops), gather (selves together, self in troops), cut selves.
Pronounce: gaw-dad'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1464)
thyself in troops
gduwd (Hebrew #1416)
a crowd (especially of soldiers)
KJV usage: army, band (of men), company, troop (of robbers).
Pronounce: ghed-ood'
Origin: from 1413
, O daughter
bath (Hebrew #1323)
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, X first, X old, + owl, town, village.
Pronounce: bath
Origin: from 1129 (as feminine of 1121)
of troops
gduwd (Hebrew #1416)
a crowd (especially of soldiers)
KJV usage: army, band (of men), company, troop (of robbers).
Pronounce: ghed-ood'
Origin: from 1413
: he hath laid
suwm (Hebrew #7760)
a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, + disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, + name, X on, ordain, order, + paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), + regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, + stedfastly, take, X tell, + tread down, ((over-))turn, X wholly, work.
Pronounce: soom
Origin: or siym {seem}
siege
matsowr (Hebrew #4692)
from 6696; something hemming in, i.e. (objectively) a mound (of besiegers), (abstractly) a siege, (figuratively) distress; or (subjectively) a fastness
KJV usage: besieged, bulwark, defence, fenced, fortress, siege, strong (hold), tower.
Pronounce: maw-tsore'
Origin: or matsuwr {maw-tsoor'}
against us: they shall smite
nakah (Hebrew #5221)
to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: beat, cast forth, clap, give (wounds), X go forward, X indeed, kill, make (slaughter), murderer, punish, slaughter, slay(-er, -ing), smite(-r, -ing), strike, be stricken, (give) stripes, X surely, wound.
Pronounce: naw-kaw'
Origin: a primitive root
n the judge
shaphat (Hebrew #8199)
to judge, i.e. pronounce sentence (for or against); by implication, to vindicate or punish; by extenssion, to govern; passively, to litigate (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: + avenge, X that condemn, contend, defend, execute (judgment), (be a) judge(-ment), X needs, plead, reason, rule.
Pronounce: shaw-fat'
Origin: a primitive root
of Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
with a rod
shebet (Hebrew #7626)
a scion, i.e. (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan
KJV usage: X correction, dart, rod, sceptre, staff, tribe.
Pronounce: shay'-bet
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to branch off
upon the cheek
lchiy (Hebrew #3895)
the cheek (from its fleshiness); hence, the jaw-bone
KJV usage: cheek (bone), jaw (bone).
Pronounce: lekh-ee'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be soft
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Matt. 27:30• 30And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head. (Matt. 27:30)

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Daughter,
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-3:  The birth of Christ.
4-7:  His kingdom.
8-15:  His conquest.
gather.
Deut. 28:49• 49The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; (Deut. 28:49)
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2 Kings 24:2• 2And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by his servants the prophets. (2 Kings 24:2)
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Isa. 8:9• 9Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. (Isa. 8:9)
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Isa. 10:6• 6I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. (Isa. 10:6)
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Jer. 4:7• 7The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant. (Jer. 4:7)
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Jer. 25:9• 9Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations. (Jer. 25:9)
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Joel 3:9• 9Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: (Joel 3:9)
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Hab. 1:6• 6For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs. (Hab. 1:6)
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Hab. 3:16• 16When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops. (Hab. 3:16)
he hath.
Deut. 28:51‑57• 51And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
 52And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the Lord thy God hath given thee.
 53And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:
 54So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
 55So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.
 56The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
 57And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates. (Deut. 28:51‑57)
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2 Kings 25:1‑3• 1And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.
 2And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
 3And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land. (2 Kings 25:1‑3)
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Ezek. 21:21‑22• 21For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
 22At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort. (Ezek. 21:21‑22)
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Ezek. 24:2• 2Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this same day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day. (Ezek. 24:2)
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Luke 19:43‑44• 43For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,
 44And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation. (Luke 19:43‑44)
they.
Job 16:10• 10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. (Job 16:10)
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Lam. 3:30• 30He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach. (Lam. 3:30)
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Matt. 5:39• 39But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. (Matt. 5:39)
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Matt. 26:67• 67Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands, (Matt. 26:67)
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Matt. 27:30• 30And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head. (Matt. 27:30)
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John 18:22• 22And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so? (John 18:22)
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John 19:3• 3And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands. (John 19:3)
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Acts 23:2• 2And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth. (Acts 23:2)
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2 Cor. 11:20• 20For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face. (2 Cor. 11:20)
judge.
1 Sam. 8:5‑6• 5And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
 6But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the Lord. (1 Sam. 8:5‑6)
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Isa. 33:22• 22For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us. (Isa. 33:22)
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Amos 2:3• 3And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the Lord. (Amos 2:3)
• “He hath laid siege against us”; that is, against the Jew. It is the Assyrian who will then come up—the last king of the north. (“Micah 5” by W. Kelly)
• There is to be a future siege of Jerusalem when the Jews return in unbelief unto their land and God is beginning to work in some of their hearts....The Jews once despised and insulted, rejected and crucified the Lord of glory, their own Messiah. (“Micah 5” by W. Kelly)
• Why is it that the Lord allows the last siege of Jerusalem? He says it is because of their conduct towards their ruler and judge. Who was the judge? {v.2} He was born in Bethlehem, but not this only, for “his goings forth have been of old from everlasting.” He was a divine person. (“Micah 5” by W. Kelly)
• In this chapter, Micah enlarges on the two attacks of the Assyrian. At the time of the first attack on Jerusalem by the Assyrian (the King of the North – Daniel 11:40-42), the prophet portrays the work of the Spirit of God in the remnant, bringing the matter of the Jews' guilt of rejecting the Messiah to their consciences. (“The Prophecies of Micah” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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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.