Micah 5:6

These leaders will defeat Assyria, delivering God's people from the invader. It promises decisive victory over the oppressor.

Cross-references · 14

• Luke 1:74to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without fear,
• Isa 14:25that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders.
• Gen 10:8–11Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.
• 2 Chr 33:11Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
• 2 Kgs 19:32–35“Therefore Yahweh says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there. He will not come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.
• 2 Kgs 17:3–5Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against him, and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him tribute.
• Isa 14:2The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in Yahweh’s land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
• Zeph 2:13He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness.
• Isa 10:5–12Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
• 2 Kgs 18:9–15In the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
• Luke 1:71salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all who hate us;
• Nah 2:11Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion’s cubs, and no one made them afraid?
• 2 Kgs 15:29In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
• Isa 33:1Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed; and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed.

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