Mic_2:13 The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.
Ver. 13. The breaker is come up before them] The
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, breach maker shall handle them hardly and cruelly, as galley slaves, or men condemned to the mine pits.
“ Una salus victis nullam sperare salutem. ”
They have broken up] Made havoc, and laid heaps upon heaps.
And their king shall pass before them] Not only fex populi, the dregs of the people, but Rex ipse, the king himself shall be carried captive, as were Hoshea and Zedekiah, the city being broken up, Jer_52:7.
And the Lord on the head of them] Jehovah, that man of war, Exo_15:3, going before them, as captain of the enemies’ forces, to avenge the quarrel of his covenant, Lev_26:25.