Micah 5:1

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Genesis 35:19

So 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 he comes to whom it belongs; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.

1 Kings 22:24

Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “How did the Spirit of the Lord go from me to speak to you?”

2 Kings 24:2

And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke by his servants the prophets.

Job 16:10

Men have gaped at me with their mouth, they have struck me insolently upon 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

Be broken, you peoples, and be dismayed; give ear, all you far countries; gird yourselves and be dismayed; gird yourselves and be dismayed.

Isaiah 9:5

For every boot of the tramping warrior in battle tumult and every garment rolled in blood will be burned as fuel for the fire.

Jeremiah 25:9

behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, says the Lord, and for Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about; I will utterly destroy them, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.

Jeremiah 4:7

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

Lamentations 3:30

let him give his cheek to the smiter, and be filled with insults.

Ezekiel 21:32

You shall be fuel for the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be no more remembered; for I the Lord have spoken.”

Ezekiel 24:2

“Son of man, 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 that from the going forth of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time.

Joel 3:9

Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare war, stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near, let them come up.

Amos 2:3

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

Habakkuk 1:6

For lo, I am rousing the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth, to seize habitations not their own.

Habakkuk 3:16

I hear, and my body trembles, my lips quiver at the sound; rottenness enters into my bones, my steps totter beneath me. I will quietly wait for the day of trouble to come upon people who invade us.

Matthew 26:67

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

Matthew 27:30

And they spat upon him, and took the reed and struck him on the head.

Matthew 5:39

But I say to you, Do not resist one who is evil. But if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also;

John 18:22

When he had said this, one of the officers standing by struck Jesus with his hand, saying, “Is that how you answer the high priest?”

John 19:3

they came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands.

Acts 23:2

And the high priest Ananias commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.

2 Corinthians 11:20

For you bear it if a man makes slaves of you, or preys upon you, or takes advantage of you, or puts on airs, or strikes you in the face.

Deuteronomy 28:49

The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you do not understand,

Deuteronomy 33:27

The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy before you, and said, Destroy.

Judges 17:7

Now there was a young man of Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.