Micah 5:6

New International Reader's Version

They will use their swords to rule over Assyria. They’ll rule the land of Nimrod with swords that are ready to strike. The Assyrians will march across our borders and attack our land. But the promised ruler will save us from them.

Cross References

2 Kings 15:29

During the rule of Pekah, the king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser marched into the land again. He was king of Assyria. He captured the towns of Ijon, Abel Beth Maakah, Janoah, Kedesh and Hazor. He also captured the lands of Gilead and Galilee. That included the whole territory of Naphtali. He took the people away from their own land. He sent them off to Assyria.

1 Chronicles 1:10

Cush was the father of Nimrod. Nimrod became a mighty hero on the earth.

2 Chronicles 33:11

So the Lord brought the army commanders of the king of Assyria against them. They took Manasseh as a prisoner. They put a hook in his nose. They put him in bronze chains. And they took him to Babylon.

Job 29:22

After I had spoken, they didn’t speak anymore. My words fell gently on their ears.

Psalm 110:3

Your troops will be willing to fight for you on the day of battle. Your young men will be wrapped in holy majesty. They will come to you like the fresh dew that falls early in the morning.

Psalm 72:6

May he be like rain falling on the fields. May he be like showers watering the earth.

Isaiah 14:2

Nations will help Israel return to their own land. Israel will possess other nations. They will serve Israel as male and female servants in the Lord’s land. The Israelites will make prisoners of those who had held them as prisoners. Israel will rule over those who had crushed them.

Isaiah 14:25

I will crush the Assyrians in my land. On my mountains I will walk all over them. The yokes they put on my people will be removed. The heavy load they put on their shoulders will be taken away.”

Isaiah 33:1

How terrible it will be for you, you who destroy others! Assyria, you haven’t been destroyed yet. How terrible for you, you who turn against others! Others haven’t turned against you yet. When you stop destroying, you will be destroyed. When you stop turning against others, others will turn against you.

Isaiah 37:36

Then the angel of the Lord went into the camp of the Assyrians. He put to death 185,000 soldiers there. The people of Jerusalem got up the next morning. They looked out and saw all the dead bodies.

Isaiah 37:37

So Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, took the army tents down. Then he left. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.

Isaiah 6:13

Suppose only a tenth of the people remain there. Even then the land will be completely destroyed again. But when oak trees and terebinth trees are cut down, stumps are left. And my holy people will be like stumps that begin to grow again.”

Jeremiah 14:22

Do any of the worthless gods of the nations bring rain? Do the skies send down showers all by themselves? No. Lord our God, you send the rain. So we put our hope in you. You are the one who does all these things.

Nahum 2:11

Assyria is like a lion. Where is the lions’ den now? Where did they feed their cubs? Where did all the lions go? In their den they had nothing to fear.

Zephaniah 2:13

The Lord will reach out his powerful hand against the north. He will destroy Assyria. He’ll leave Nineveh totally empty. It will be as dry as a desert.

Zephaniah 3:12

But inside your city I will leave those who are not proud at all. Those who are still left alive will trust in the Lord.

Luke 1:71

He has saved us from our enemies. We are rescued from all who hate us.

Luke 1:74

He promised to save us from our enemies. Then we could serve him without fear.

Luke 24:27

Jesus explained to them what was said about himself in all the Scriptures. He began with Moses and all the Prophets.

Deuteronomy 32:2

Let my teaching fall like rain. Let my words come down like dew. Let them be like raindrops on new grass. Let them be like rain on tender plants.