Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.
⛓ Read Micah 5 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'With a rod they strike the judge of Israel on the cheek' supplies a prophetic oracle of the ruler struck on the face, matching the officer's slap of Jesus. The cheek-striking of the messianic judge gives Coherence with John's royal-Christology trial scene, though the verbal contact is through the shared act rather than quotation.
Medium confidence'They will strike the ruler/judge of Israel on the cheek with a rod' supplies a prophetic image of the ruler humiliated by blows that fits the soldiers striking Jesus' face. The smiting-of-the-ruler motif coheres with the mockery scene.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'they will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek' anticipates the slapping and mocking of the Christ in vv67-68.
Medium confidenceMicah's 'they strike the judge of Israel on the cheek with a rod' (LXX 5:1) offers a prophetic image of the smitten ruler that resonates with the blows to Jesus' face. The motif of striking Israel's appointed judge/ruler coheres with Mark's mocked-king theme, though it is a faint secondary echo to Isaiah 50:6.
Low confidence