Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Micah 5:6
waste—literally, "eat up": following up the metaphor of "shepherds" (compare Numbers 22:4; Jeremiah 6:3).
land of Nimrod—Babylon (Micah 4:10; Genesis 10:10); or, including Assyria also, to which he extended his borders (Genesis 10:11).
in the entrances—the passes into Assyria (II Kings 3:21). The Margin and JEROME, misled by a needless attention to the parallelism, "with the sword," translate, "with her own naked swords"; as in Psalms 55:21 the Hebrew is translated. But "in the entrances" of Assyria, answers to, "within our borders." As the Assyrians invade our borders, so shall their own borders or "entrances" be invaded.
he . . . he—Messiah shall deliver us, when the Assyrian shall come.
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