Charles Ellicott Commentary Micah 5:1

"Now shalt thou gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us; they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek." — Micah 5:1 (ASV)

O daughter of troops. —This verse coheres better with the former chapter, to which it is attached in the Hebrew Version. Micah again interpolates a prediction of trouble and dismay between the sentences describing triumph and glory. The sentence of smiting the judge has its historical fulfillment in the indignities which happened to King Zedekiah.