Matthew Poole and continuators on Micah 2:13

13 The breaker is come up before them : they have broken up , and have passed thorow the gate , and are gone out by it , and their king shall pass before them , and the LORD on the head of them .

The Assyrian with his mighty host, i. e. Salmaneser and his Army.

The Present (put after the stile of the Prophets) for the Future, because the thing was near, and very certain.

The people of Israel might see them, would they open their eyes, the preparations for this expedition are visible to all that will observe what is doing abroad. The mighty Army of the Assyrian King shall e're long approach the confines, enter the Land, invest the Cities, yea, the Metropolis of Israel.

No Frontiers shall be strong enough to keep them out of the Land.

No Cities so strong with Walls and Gates, which the Assyrian shall not take and possess, and enter in through the Gates, as of his own Cities.

And securely go out too.

Salmaneser.

In triumphant manner.

His own Army, and the Captive Iacob,

offended with the Jews.

Leading, and succeeding the Assyrians in this War.

In the opinion of those, who account the 12th ve[illegible: 1 letter]se to be part of the flattering discourse of false Prophets: This verse is the Prophet Micah's reply to those false Teachers; so far is it from truth, that God will restore the remnant, and establish them, that he assures them the contrary will surely and suddenly befall them; and these do in some manner expound the words as they of the third opinion, mentioned ver. 12. thus.