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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• 30{i}And having spit upon him, they took the reed and beat [him] on his head.{/i} (Matt. 27:30)

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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• 49{i}Jehovah will bring a nation against thee from afar, from the end of the earth, like as the eagle flieth, a nation whose tongue thou understandest not;{/i} (Deut. 28:49)
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2 Kings 24:2• 2{i}And Jehovah sent against him the bands of the Chaldeans, and the bands of the Syrians, and the bands of the Moabites, and the bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Jehovah, which he spoke through his servants the prophets.{/i} (2 Kings 24:2)
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Isa. 8:9• 9Rage, ye peoples, and ye shall be broken in pieces. And give ear, all ye distant parts of the earth. Gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. (Isa. 8:9)
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Isa. 10:6• 6I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to seize 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• 9I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and Nebuchadnezzar 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• 9{i}Proclaim this among the nations:{/i} Hallow 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 dwelling-places that are not theirs. (Hab. 1:6)
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Hab. 3:16• 16When I heard, my belly trembled; (Hab. 3:16)
he hath.
Deut. 28:51‑57• 51{i}and he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, until thou be destroyed; for he shall not leave thee corn, new wine, or oil, offspring of thy kine, or increase of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.{/i}
 52{i}And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and strong walls wherein thou trustedst come down, throughout all thy land; and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates in all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.{/i}
 53{i}And in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee, thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters whom Jehovah thy God hath given thee.{/i}
 54{i}The eye of the man in thy midst that is tender and very luxurious shall be evil towards his brother, and the wife of his bosom, and the residue of his children which he hath left;{/i}
 55{i}so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children that he eateth, because he hath nothing left him in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.{/i}
 56{i}The eye of the tender and luxurious woman in thy midst who would not attempt to set the sole of her foot upon the ground from luxuriousness and from tenderness, shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and her son, and her daughter,{/i}
 57{i}because of her afterbirth which hath come out between her feet, and her children whom she shall bear; for she shall secretly eat them for want of everything in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.{/i} (Deut. 28:51‑57)
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2 Kings 25:1‑3• 1{i}And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built turrets against it round about.{/i}
 2{i}And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.{/i}
 3{i}On the ninth of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.{/i} (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 days shall come upon thee that thine enemies shall make a rampart about thee and compass thee round and keep thee in on every side,
 44and level thee with the ground and thy children in thee; and not leave in thee stone upon stone; because thou knewest not the season of thy visitation. (Luke 19:43‑44)
they.
Job 16:10• 10They gaped at me with their mouth,{HR}With reproach they smote my cheeks.{HR}They strengthen 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 to you, Resist not evil; but whoever shall strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. (Matt. 5:39)
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Matt. 26:67• 67{i}Then they spit in his face, and buffeted him, and some struck him with the palms of their hand,{/i} (Matt. 26:67)
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Matt. 27:30• 30{i}And having spit upon him, they took the reed and beat [him] on his head.{/i} (Matt. 27:30)
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John 18:22• 22But when he said these things, one of the officials as he stood by gave Jesus a slap on the face, saying, Thus answerest thou the high priest? (John 18:22)
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John 19:3• 3and were coming to him and saying, Hail, King of the Jews! and gave him slaps on the face. (John 19:3)
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Acts 23:2• 2And the high priest Ananias commanded those that stood by him to smite his mouth. (Acts 23:2)
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2 Cor. 11:20• 20For ye bear if one bring you into bondage, if one devour you, if one receive, if one exalt himself, if one beat you on the face. (2 Cor. 11:20)
judge.
1 Sam. 8:5‑6• 5{i}and said to him,{/i} Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
 6{i}And the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us{/i}. And Samuel prayed to Jehovah. (1 Sam. 8:5‑6)
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Isa. 33:22• 22For Jehovah [is] our judge, Jehovah [is] our lawgiver, Jehovah [is] our King; he will save us. (Isa. 33:22)
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Amos 2:3• 3{i}And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith Jehovah.{/i} (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.

W. Kelly 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.