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Micah 5:6

Micah 5:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

they: Isaiah 14:2, Isaiah 33:1; Nahum 2:11-13, Nahum 3:1-3

waste: Heb. eat up

the land of Nimrod: Genesis 10:9-11 *marg.

in the entrances thereof: or, with her own naked swords, thus. Isaiah 14:25; Luke 1:71, Luke 1:74

the Assyrian: 2 Kings 15:29, 2 Kings 17:3-5, 2 Kings 18:9-15, 2 Kings 19:32-35; 2 Chronicles 33:11; Isaiah 10:5-12

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