Micah 5:1

A Ruler From Bethlehem

¹ Now, daughter who is under attack,
you slash yourself in grief;
a siege is set against us!
They are striking the judge of Israel
on the cheek with a rod.
² Bethlehem Ephrathah,
you are small among the clans of Judah;
One will come from you
to be ruler over Israel for Me.
His origin is from antiquity,
from eternity.

Israel

Lamentations 3:30

Let him offer his cheek
to the one who would strike him;
let him be filled with shame.

Job 16:10

They open their mouths against me
and strike my cheeks with contempt;
they join themselves together against me.

Deuteronomy 28:49

The Lord will bring a nation from far away, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down on you like an eagle, a nation whose language you don’t understand,

Deuteronomy 28:51-57

They will eat the offspring of your livestock and your land’s produce until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, oil, young of your herds, or newborn of your flocks until they cause you to perish.

1 Samuel 8:5-6

They said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons do not follow your example. Therefore, appoint a king to judge us the same as all the other nations have.”

1 Kings 22:24

Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah came up, hit Micaiah in the face, and demanded, “Did the Spirit of the Lord leave me to speak to you?”

2 Kings 24:2

The Lord sent Chaldean, Aramean, Moabite, and Ammonite raiders against Jehoiakim. He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord He had spoken through His servants the prophets.

2 Kings 25:1-3

In the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon advanced against Jerusalem with his entire army. They laid siege to the city and built a siege wall against it all around.

Isaiah 8:9

Band together, peoples, and be broken;
pay attention, all you distant lands;
prepare for war, and be broken;
prepare for war, and be broken.

Isaiah 10:6

I will send him against a godless nation;
I will command him to go
against a people destined for My rage,
to take spoils, to plunder,
and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

Isaiah 33:22

For the Lord is our Judge,
the Lord is our lawgiver,
the Lord is our King.
He will save us.

Jeremiah 4:7

A lion has gone up from his thicket;
a destroyer of nations has set out.
He has left his lair
to make your land a waste.
Your cities will be reduced to uninhabited ruins.

Jeremiah 25:9

I am going to send for all the families of the north’—this is the Lord’s declaration—‘and send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will bring them against this land, against its residents, and against all these surrounding nations, and I will completely destroy them and make them a desolation, a derision, and ruins forever.

Ezekiel 21:21-22

For the king of Babylon stands at the split in the road, at the fork of the two roads, to practice divination: he shakes the arrows, consults the idols, and observes the liver.

Ezekiel 24:2

“Son of man, write down today’s date, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day.

Joel 3:9

Proclaim this among the nations:
Prepare for holy war;
rouse the warriors;
let all the men of war advance and attack!

Amos 2:3

I will cut off the judge from the land
and kill all its officials with him.
The Lord has spoken.

Habakkuk 1:6

Look! I am raising up the Chaldeans,
that bitter, impetuous nation
that marches across the earth’s open spaces
to seize territories not its own.

Habakkuk 3:16

I heard, and I trembled within;
my lips quivered at the sound.
Rottenness entered my bones;
I trembled where I stood.
Now I must quietly wait for the day of distress
to come against the people invading us.

Matthew 5:39

But I tell you, don’t resist an evildoer. On the contrary, if anyone slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.

Matthew 26:67

Then they spit in His face and beat Him; others slapped Him

Matthew 27:30

Then they spit on Him, took the reed, and kept hitting Him on the head.

Luke 19:43-44

For the days will come on you when your enemies will build an embankment against you, surround you, and hem you in on every side.

John 18:22

When He had said these things, one of the temple police standing by slapped Jesus, saying, “Is this the way you answer the high priest?”

John 19:3

And they repeatedly came up to Him and said, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and were slapping His face.

Acts 23:2

But the high priest Ananias ordered those who were standing next to him to strike him on the mouth.

2 Corinthians 11:20

In fact, you put up with it if someone enslaves you, if someone devours you, if someone captures you, if someone dominates you, or if someone hits you in the face.