he placed himself alongside his people. Literally, the text reads, ‘he has laid siege,’ and NKJV takes the ‘he’ as referring to God, whereas others assume it refers to the enemy (hence NASB, ‘they have laid siege against us’); I have taken it impersonally (what ‘someone’ has done) and so translated it as a passive. We can’t be sure exactly what it is that Micah calls Jerusalem to do in face of the siege. His command uses a word- or sound-play; he wants the ‘daughter of gĕdûd’ to gādad in some