Commentators highlight a puzzle: Bethlehem, the future city of David and Jesus, is missing from this list in the standard Hebrew text. Some scholars suggest it was part of a section that was accidentally omitted by a scribe, as it appears in ancient Greek translations. Others, like Matthew Henry, see its absence as a sign of its insignificance at the time, powerfully illustrating how God exalts the humble, fulfilling the prophecy in Micah 5:2.