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Micah 5

Mic. 5:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And they shall κwaste
ra`ah (Hebrew #7462)
to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a friend)
KJV usage: X break, companion, keep company with, devour, eat up, evil entreat, feed, use as a friend, make friendship with, herdman, keep (sheep)(-er), pastor, + shearing house, shepherd, wander, waste.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
the land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
of Assyria
'Ashshuwr (Hebrew #804)
apparently from 833 (in the sense of successful); Ashshur, the second son of Shem; also his descendants and the country occupied by them (i.e. Assyria), its region and its empire
KJV usage: Asshur, Assur, Assyria, Assyrians. See 838.
Pronounce: ash-shoor'
Origin: or iAshshur {ash-shoor'}
with the sword
chereb (Hebrew #2719)
drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement
KJV usage: axe, dagger, knife, mattock, sword, tool.
Pronounce: kheh'-reb
Origin: from 2717
, and the land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
of Nimrod
Nimrowd (Hebrew #5248)
probably of foreign origin; Nimrod, a son of Cush
KJV usage: Nimrod.
Pronounce: nim-rode'
Origin: or Nimrod {nim-rode'}
μin the entrances
pethach (Hebrew #6607)
an opening (literally), i.e. door (gate) or entrance way
KJV usage: door, entering (in), entrance (-ry), gate, opening, place.
Pronounce: peh'-thakh
Origin: from 6605
thereof: thus shall hey deliver
natsal (Hebrew #5337)
to snatch away, whether in a good or a bad sense
KJV usage: X at all, defend, deliver (self), escape, X without fail, part, pluck, preserve, recover, rescue, rid, save, spoil, strip, X surely, take (out).
Pronounce: naw-tsal'
Origin: a primitive root
us from the Assyrian
'Ashshuwr (Hebrew #804)
apparently from 833 (in the sense of successful); Ashshur, the second son of Shem; also his descendants and the country occupied by them (i.e. Assyria), its region and its empire
KJV usage: Asshur, Assur, Assyria, Assyrians. See 838.
Pronounce: ash-shoor'
Origin: or iAshshur {ash-shoor'}
, when he cometh
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
into our land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
, and when he treadeth
darak (Hebrew #1869)
to tread; by implication, to walk; also to string a bow (by treading on it in bending)
KJV usage: archer, bend, come, draw, go (over), guide, lead (forth), thresh, tread (down), walk.
Pronounce: daw-rak'
Origin: a primitive root
within our borders
gbuwl (Hebrew #1366)
from 1379; properly, a cord (as twisted), i.e. (by implication) a boundary; by extens. the territory inclosed
KJV usage: border, bound, coast, X great, landmark, limit, quarter, space.
Pronounce: gheb-ool'
Origin: or (shortened) gbul {gheb-ool'}
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eat up.
μ
or, with her own naked swords.
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Luke 1:74• 74to give us, that, saved out of the hand of our enemies, we should serve him without fear (Luke 1:74)

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Ministry on This Verse

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Isa. 14:2• 2And the peoples shall take them and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of Jehovah for servants and handmaids; and they shall take them captive whose captives they were, and they shall rule over their oppressors. (Isa. 14:2)
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Isa. 33:1• 1Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and that dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! When thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; when thou shalt make an end of dealing treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee. (Isa. 33:1)
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Nah. 2:11‑13• 11Where is now the den of the lions, and the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion, the lioness, and the lion's whelp walked, and none made them afraid?
 12The lion tore in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
 13Behold, I am against thee, saith Jehovah of hosts: and I will burn her chariots into smoke; and the sword shall devour thy young lions, and I will cut off thy prey from the earth; and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard. (Nah. 2:11‑13)
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Nah. 3:1‑3• 1Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and violence; the prey departeth not.
 2The crack of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the bounding chariots!
 3The horseman springing up, and the glitter of the sword, and the flash of the spear, and a multitude of slain, and a mass of carcases, and no end of corpses: they stumble over their corpses. (Nah. 3:1‑3)
waste.
Heb. eat up.
the land of Nimrod.
Gen. 10:9‑11• 9He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah; therefore it is said, As Nimrod, the mighty hunter before Jehovah!
 10And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
 11From that land went out Asshur, and built Nineveh, and Rehoboth-Ir, and Calah, (Gen. 10:9‑11)
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Gen. 10•  (Gen. 10)
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in the entrances thereof.
or, with her own naked swords.thus.
Isa. 14:25• 25to break the Assyrian in my land; and upon my mountains will I tread him under foot; and his yoke shall depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders. (Isa. 14:25)
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Luke 1:71,74• 71deliverance from our enemies and out of the hand of all who hate us;
 74to give us, that, saved out of the hand of our enemies, we should serve him without fear (Luke 1:71,74)
the Assyrian.
2 Kings 15:29• 29In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, and Abel-Beth-Maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria. (2 Kings 15:29)
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2 Kings 17:3‑5• 3Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria, and Hoshea became his servant, and tendered him presents.
 4But the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and sent up no present to the king of Assyria as he had done from year to year. And the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison.
 5And the king of Assyria overran the whole land, and went up against Samaria, and besieged it three years. (2 Kings 17:3‑5)
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2 Kings 18:9‑15• 9And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea the son of Elah, king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it.
 10And at the end of three years they took it; in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is, the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
 11And the king of Assyria carried away Israel to Assyria, and settled them in Halah and by the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes;
 12because they hearkened not to the voice of Jehovah their God, but transgressed his covenant, all that Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded; and they would not hear nor do it.
 13And in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.
 14And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have sinned; retire from me: I will bear what thou layest upon me. And the king of Assyria laid upon Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
 15And Hezekiah gave all the silver that was found in the house of Jehovah, and in the treasures of the king's house. (2 Kings 18:9‑15)
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2 Kings 19:32‑35• 32Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city, Nor shoot an arrow there, Nor come before it with shield, Nor cast a bank against it.
 33By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, And shall not come into this city, saith Jehovah.
 34And I will defend this city, to save it, For mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
 35And it came to pass that night, that an angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead bodies. (2 Kings 19:32‑35)
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2 Chron. 33:11• 11And Jehovah brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with fetters, and bound him with chains of brass, and carried him to Babylon. (2 Chron. 33:11)
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Isa. 10:5‑12• 5Ah! the Assyrian! the rod of mine anger! and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
 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.
 7But he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; for it is in his heart to extirpate and cut off nations not a few.
 8For he saith, Are not my princes all kings?
 9Is not Calno as Karkemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?
 10As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols,--and their graven images exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
 11--shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her images?
 12And it shall come to pass, when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stoutness of heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. (Isa. 10:5‑12)
• Jehovah will have renewed His connection with Israel when the Assyrian comes up to meet his doom—the head of the combined nations in the great confederacy which is broken just before the millennium. (“Micah 5” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And they shall wastec the land of Asshur with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof; and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "feed on," or "rule," Ps. 49.14; 80.13.