Micah 5:1

WEB

¹Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.

KJV

¹Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

BSB

¹Now, O daughter of troops, mobilize your troops; for a siege is laid against us! With a rod they will strike the cheek of the judge of Israel.

FBV

¹Gather your troops together, Jerusalem!^[+] An enemy is besieging us. They will strike Israel's leader on the cheek with a rod.

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Extra References

Lamentations 3:30

³⁰Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.

Isaiah 33:22

²²For the LORD is our judge. The LORD is our lawgiver. The LORD is our king. He will save us.

Matthew 26:67

⁶⁷Then they spat in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,

John 18:22

²²When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, “Do you answer the high priest like that?”

John 19:3

³They kept saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and they kept slapping him.

Job 16:10

¹⁰They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

Acts 23:2

²The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.

2 Corinthians 11:20

²⁰For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face.

Deuteronomy 28:49

⁴⁹The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand,

¹In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it. ²So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. ³On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.