Micah 5:1

New American Bible - revised edition

But you, Bethlehem-Ephrathah least among the clans of Judah, From you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel; Whose origin is from of old, from ancient times.

Cross References

Genesis 35:19

Thus Rachel died; and she was buried on the road to Ephrath (now Bethlehem).

Genesis 49:10

The scepter shall never depart from Judah, or the mace from between his feet, Until tribute comes to him, and he receives the people’s obedience.

1 Kings 22:24

Thereupon Zedekiah, son of Chenaanah, came up and struck Micaiah on the cheek, saying, “Has the spirit of the Lord, then, left me to speak with you?”

2 Kings 24:2

The Lord loosed against him bands of Chaldeans, Arameans, Moabites, and Ammonites; he unleashed them against Judah to destroy him, according to the Lord’s word spoken through his servants the prophets.

Job 16:10

They gape at me with their mouths; They strike me on the cheek with insults; they are all enlisted against me.

Proverbs 8:23

From of old I was formed, at the first, before the earth.

Isaiah 10:6

Against an impious nation I send him, and against a people under my wrath I order him To seize plunder, carry off loot, and to trample them like the mud of the street.

Isaiah 33:22

For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he it is who will save us.

Isaiah 8:9

Band together, O peoples, but be shattered! Give ear, all you distant lands! Arm yourselves, but be shattered! Arm yourselves, but be shattered!

Isaiah 9:5

For a child is born to us, a son is given to us; upon his shoulder dominion rests. They name him Wonder-Counselor, God-Hero, Father-Forever, Prince of Peace.

Jeremiah 25:9

I am about to send for and fetch all the tribes from the north—oracle of the Lord—and I will send for Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, my servant; I will bring them against this land, its inhabitants, and all these neighboring nations. I will doom them, making them an object of horror, of hissing, of everlasting reproach.

Jeremiah 4:7

Up comes the lion from its lair, the destroyer of nations has set out, has left its place, To turn your land into a desolation, your cities into an uninhabited waste.

Lamentations 3:30

To offer one’s cheek to be struck, to be filled with disgrace.

Ezekiel 21:32

A ruin, a ruin, a ruin, I shall make it! Nothing will be the same until the one comes to whom I have given it for judgment. To the Ammonites.

Ezekiel 24:2

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

Daniel 9:25

Know and understand: From the utterance of the word that Jerusalem was to be rebuilt Until there is an anointed ruler, there shall be seven weeks. In the course of sixty-two weeks it shall be rebuilt, With squares and trenches, in time of affliction.

Amos 2:3

I will cut off the ruler from its midst, and all the princes I will slay with him, says the Lord.

Habakkuk 1:6

For now I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and impulsive people, Who march the breadth of the land to take dwellings not their own.

Habakkuk 3:16

I hear, and my body trembles; at the sound, my lips quiver. Decay invades my bones, my legs tremble beneath me. I await the day of distress that will come upon the people who attack us.

Matthew 26:67

Then they spat in his face and struck him, while some slapped him,

Matthew 27:30

They spat upon him and took the reed and kept striking him on the head.

Matthew 5:39

But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil. When someone strikes you on [your] right cheek, turn the other one to him as well.

John 18:22

When he had said this, one of the temple guards standing there struck Jesus and said, “Is this the way you answer the high priest?”

John 19:3

and they came to him and said, “Hail, King of the Jews!” And they struck him repeatedly.

Acts 23:2

The high priest Ananias ordered his attendants to strike his mouth.

2 Corinthians 11:20

For you put up with it if someone enslaves you, or devours you, or gets the better of you, or puts on airs, or slaps you in the face.

Deuteronomy 28:49

The Lord will raise up against you a nation from afar, from the end of the earth, that swoops down like an eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand,

Deuteronomy 33:27

The God of old is a refuge; a support are the arms of the Everlasting. He drove the enemy out of your way and he said, “Destroy!”

Judges 17:7

There was a young man from Bethlehem of Judah, from the clan of Judah; he was a Levite residing there.