Micah 5:1

Zion is besieged and her ruler struck on the cheek with a rod. It depicts the humiliation of Israel's leadership before the promise of a true ruler.

Cross-references · 27

• Lam 3:30Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.
• John 19:3And they went up to Him again and again, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and slapping Him in the face.
• Job 16:10They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.
• John 18:22When 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?”
• Isa 33:22For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our King. It is He who will save us.
• Matt 26:67Then they spit in His face and struck Him. Others slapped Him
• 2 Cor 11:20In 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.
• 2 Kgs 25:1–3So 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.
• Deut 28:49The 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,
• Acts 23:2At this, the high priest Ananias ordered those standing near Paul to strike him on the mouth.
• Matt 27:30Then they spit on Him and took the staff and struck Him on the head repeatedly.
• 1 Kgs 22:24Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah went up, struck Micaiah in the face, and demanded, “Which way did the Spirit of the LORD go when He departed from me to speak with you?”
• 1 Sam 8:5–6“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.”
• Hab 3:16I 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.
• Ezek 24:2“Son of man, write down today’s date, for on this very day the king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem.
• Joel 3:9Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war; rouse the mighty men; let all the men of war advance and attack!
• Ezek 21:21–22For 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.
• Isa 8:9Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for battle, and be shattered; prepare for battle, and be shattered!
• Jer 4:7A 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.
• 2 Kgs 24:2And 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.
• Hab 1:6For 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.
• Jer 25:9behold, 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.
• Deut 28:51–57They 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.
• Luke 19:43–44For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side.
• Amos 2:3I will cut off the ruler of Moab and kill all the officials with him,” says the LORD.
• Matt 5:39But I tell you not to resist an evil person. If someone slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also;
• Isa 10:6I 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.

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