Micah 5:2

2 	1 dBut you, O eBethlehem Ephrathah,
		who are too little to be among the clans of fJudah,
	from you shall come forth for me
		one who is to be ruler in Israel,
	whose coming forth is from of old,
		from ancient days.

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Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem,

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“Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down before you. Judah is a lion’s cub; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down; he crouched as a lion and as a lioness; who dares rouse him? The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.

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1 Chronicles 28:4
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