Micah 5:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.

In the entrances thereof

Isaiah 14:25

Luke 1:71

The assyrian

General references

1 Chronicles 1:10

Bible References

In the entrances thereof

To let the Assyrian be broken in my land, and crushed under foot on my mountains: there will his yoke be taken away from them, and his rule over them come to an end.

Salvation from those who are against us, and from the hands of those who have hate for us;

The assyrian

In the days of Pekah, king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, came and took Ijon and Abel-beth-maacah and Janoah and Kedesh and Hazor and Gilead and Galilee and all the land of Naphtali; and he took the people away to Assyria.

Against him came up Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, and Hoshea became his servant and sent him offerings.

Now in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, came up against Samaria, shutting it in with his armies.

For this cause the Lord says about the king of Assyria, He will not come into this town, or send an arrow against it; he will not come before it with arms, or put up an earthwork against it;

So the Lord sent against them the captains of the army of Assyria, who made Manasseh a prisoner and took him away in chains to Babylon.

Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!

General references

And Cush was the father of Nimrod: he was the first to be a great man in the earth.