Micah 5:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Now you are walled around with a wall; siege is laid against us; with a rod they strike the ruler of Israel upon the cheek.

Cross References

Genesis 35:19

And Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath, that is, Bethlehem,

Genesis 49:10

The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him, and the obedience of the peoples is his.

1 Kings 22:24

Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah came up to Micaiah, slapped him on the cheek, and said, “Which way did the spirit of the Lord pass from me to speak to you?”

2 Kings 24:2

He sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, bands of the Arameans, bands of the Moabites, and bands of the Ammonites; he sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by his servants the prophets.

Job 16:10

They have gaped at me with their mouths; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me.

Proverbs 8:23

Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.

Isaiah 10:6

Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Isaiah 33:22

For the Lord is our judge; the Lord is our ruler; the Lord is our king; he will save us.

Isaiah 8:9

Take notice, you peoples, and be dismayed; listen, all you far countries; gird yourselves and be dismayed!

Isaiah 9:5

For all the boots of the tramping warriors and all the garments rolled in blood shall be burned as fuel for the fire.

Jeremiah 25:9

I am going to send for all the tribes of the north, says the Lord, even for King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all these nations around; I will utterly destroy them and make them an object of horror and of hissing and an everlasting disgrace.

Jeremiah 4:7

A lion has gone up from its thicket; a destroyer of nations has set out; he has gone out from his place to make your land a waste; your cities will be ruins without inhabitant.

Lamentations 3:30

to give one’s cheek to the smiter and be filled with insults.

Ezekiel 21:32

You shall be fuel for the fire, your blood shall enter the earth; you shall be remembered no more, for I the Lord have spoken.

Ezekiel 24:2

Mortal, write down the name of this day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day.

Daniel 9:25

Know therefore and understand: from the time that the word went out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the time of an anointed prince, there shall be seven weeks, and for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with streets and moat, but in a troubled time.

Joel 3:9

Proclaim this among the nations: Consecrate yourselves for war; stir up the warriors. Let all the soldiers draw near; let them come up.

Amos 2:3

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

Habakkuk 1:6

For I am rousing the Chaldeans, that fierce and impetuous nation, who march through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.

Habakkuk 3:16

I hear, and I tremble within; my lips quiver at the sound. Rottenness enters into my bones, and my steps tremble beneath me. I wait quietly for the day of calamity to come upon the people who attack us.

Matthew 26:67

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

Matthew 27:30

They spat on him and took the reed and struck him on the head.

Matthew 5:39

But I say to you: Do not resist an evildoer. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also,

John 18:22

When he had said this, one of the police standing nearby struck Jesus on the face, saying, “Is that how you answer the high priest?”

John 19:3

They kept coming up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and striking him on the face.

Acts 23:2

Then the high priest Ananias ordered those standing near him to strike him on the mouth.

2 Corinthians 11:20

For you put up with it when someone makes slaves of you or preys upon you or takes advantage of you or puts on airs or gives you a slap in the face.

Deuteronomy 28:49

The Lord will bring a nation from far away, from the end of the earth, to swoop down on you like an eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand,

Deuteronomy 33:27

He subdues the ancient gods, shatters the forces of old; he drove out the enemy before you and said, ‘Destroy!’

Judges 17:7

Now there was a young man of Bethlehem in Judah, of the clan of Judah. He was a Levite residing there.