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But thou. This marks out the Structure. Compare Mic_4:8 with Mic_5:2. Quoted in Mat_2:5, Mat_2:6. Joh_7:42.
Beth-lehem Ephratah. The full name given, as in Gen_35:19, thus connecting Gen_35:21 with Mic_4:8.
little = too little [to rank among]. Compare 1Co_1:27-29.
thousands = districts (1Sa_23:23). Like our old English divisions, called "hundreds". Compare Exo_18:25. Reference to Pentateuch (Exo_18:25).
come forth. Note the difference between Hebrew here (yatza) and bo' = come unto, in Zec_9:9. All the events between these two make up the period we call "the first Advent", and thus are typical of the "second Advent"; the coming forth being 1Th_4:16, and the coming unto being 1Th_5:2, 1Th_5:3, and 2Th_2:8, the former being in grace, the latter in judgment. A similar period may elapse in the antitypical comings as in the typical comings of Mic_5:2, and Zec_9:9.
unto = for.
everlasting. Compare Psa_90:2. Pro_8:22, Pro_8:23. Joh_1:1, Joh_1:2.