Micah 5:2

Holman Christian Standard Bible

²^[a]Bethlehem Ephrathah,^(A)
you are small among the clans of Judah;
One will come from you^(B)
to be ruler over Israel for Me.^(C)
His origin^[b] is from antiquity,^(D)
from eternity.^[c]

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Micah 5:2 Mc 5:1 in Hb
Micah 5:2 Lit His going out
Micah 5:2 Or from ancient times

Micah 5:2 in all English translations

Luke 2:1-4

Holman Christian Standard Bible

The Birth of Jesus

2 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus^[a]^(A) that the whole empire^[b] should be registered. ²This first registration took place while^[c] Quirinius was governing Syria.^(B) ³So everyone went to be registered, each to his own town.

⁴And Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family line of David,^(C)

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Luke 2:1 Emperor who ruled the Roman Empire 27 b.c.–a.d. 14; also known as Octavian, he established the peaceful era known as the Pax Romana; Caesar was a title of Roman emperors.
Luke 2:1 Or the whole inhabited world
Luke 2:2 Or This registration was the first while, or This registration was before