Micah 5:2

Micah 5:2

1 Now gather yourself in troops,
O daughter of troops;
He has laid siege against us;
They will ^astrike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.

The Coming Messiah

2 “But you, ^aBethlehem ^bEphrathah,
Though you are little ^camong the ^dthousands of Judah,
Yet out of you shall come forth to Me
The One to be ^eRuler in Israel,
^fWhose goings forth are from¹ of old,
From everlasting.”

3 Therefore He shall give them up,
Until the time that ^ashe who is in labor has given birth;
Then ^bthe remnant of His brethren
Shall return to the children of Israel.

4 And He shall stand and ^afeed His flock
In the strength of the Lord,
In the majesty of the name of the Lord His God;
And they shall abide,
For now He ^bshall be great
To the ends of the earth;

5 And this One ^ashall be peace.
When the Assyrian comes into our land,
And when he treads in our palaces,
Then we will raise against him
Seven shepherds and eight princely men.

Judgment on Israel’s Enemies

6 They shall¹ waste with the sword the land of Assyria,
And the land of ^aNimrod at its entrances;
Thus He shall ^bdeliver us from the Assyrian,
When he comes into our land
And when he treads within our borders.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah - I have considered this subject in great detail in the notes on Matthew 2:6, to which the reader will be pleased to refer. This verse should begin this chapter; the first verse belongs to the preceding chapter.

Bethlehem Ephratah, to distinguish it from another Beth-lehem, which was in the tribe of Zebulun, Joshua 19:15.

Thousands of Judah - The tribes were divided into small portions called thousands; as in our country certain divisions of counties are called hundreds.

Whose goings forth have been from of old - In every age, from the foundation of the world, there has been some manifestation of the Messiah. He was the hope, as he was the salvation, of the world, from the promise to Adam in paradise, to his manifestation in the flesh four thousand years after.

From everlasting - miyemey olam , "From the days of all time;" from time as it came out of eternity. That is, there was no time in which he has not been going forth-coming in various ways to save men. And he that came forth the moment that time had its birth, was before that time in which he began to come forth to save the souls that he had created. He was before all things. As he is the Creator of all things, so he is the Eternal, and no part of what was created. All being but God has been created. Whatever has not been created is God. But Jesus is the Creator of all things; therefore he is God; for he cannot be a part of his own work.

**Other Adam Clarke entries containing Micah 5:2:**

Isaiah 49:17
Matthew 2:1
Matthew 2:6
Matthew 2:6
Matthew 21:42
Luke 1:5
Luke 2:5
John 1:45

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