Micah 5:1

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Micah 5:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Now, O daughter of troops, mobilize your troops; for a siege is laid against us! With a rod they will strike the cheek of the judge of Israel.

2 But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come forth for Me One to be ruler over Israel — One whose origins are of old, from the days of eternity.

3 Therefore Israel will be abandoned until she who is in labor has given birth; then the rest of His brothers will return to the children of Israel.

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Deuteronomy 28:49

The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,

2 Kings 24:2

And the LORD sent Chaldean, Aramean, Moabite, and Ammonite raiders against Jehoiakim in order to destroy Judah, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servants the prophets.

Isaiah 8:9

Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for battle, and be shattered; prepare for battle, and be shattered!

Isaiah 10:6

I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

Jeremiah 4:7

A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.

Jeremiah 25:9

behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.

Joel 3:9

Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war; rouse the mighty men; let all the men of war advance and attack!

Habakkuk 1:6

For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans — that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.

Habakkuk 3:16

I heard and trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Decay entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Yet I must wait patiently for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us.

Deuteronomy 28:51

They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.

Deuteronomy 28:52

They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you.

Deuteronomy 28:53

Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.

Deuteronomy 28:54

The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived,

Deuteronomy 28:55

refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within all your gates.

Deuteronomy 28:56

The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter

Deuteronomy 28:57

the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.

2 Kings 25:1

So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.

2 Kings 25:2

And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

2 Kings 25:3

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

Ezekiel 21:21

For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He shakes the arrows, he consults the idols, he examines the liver.

Ezekiel 21:22

In his right hand appears the portent for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to call for the slaughter, to lift a battle cry, to direct the battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp, and to erect a siege wall.

Ezekiel 24:2

“Son of man, write down today’s date, for on this very day the king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem.

Luke 19:43

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side.

Luke 19:44

They will level you to the ground—you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”

Job 16:10

They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.

Lamentations 3:30

Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.

Matthew 5:39

But I tell you not to resist an evil person. If someone slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also;

Matthew 26:67

Then they spit in His face and struck Him. Others slapped Him

Matthew 27:30

Then they spit on Him and took the staff and struck Him on the head repeatedly.

John 18:22

When Jesus had said this, one of the officers standing nearby slapped Him in the face and said, “Is this how You answer the high priest?”

John 19:3

And they went up to Him again and again, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and slapping Him in the face.

Acts 23:2

At this, the high priest Ananias ordered those standing near Paul to strike him on the mouth.

2 Corinthians 11:20

In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or exalts himself or strikes you in the face.

1 Samuel 8:5

“Look,” they said, “you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king to judge us like all the other nations.”

1 Samuel 8:6

But when they said, “Give us a king to judge us,” their demand was displeasing in the sight of Samuel; so he prayed to the LORD.

Isaiah 33:22

For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our King. It is He who will save us.

Amos 2:3

I will cut off the ruler of Moab and kill all the officials with him,” says the LORD.