[MT 2:18–25]; Micah 4:6). Micahʾs pattern alternates: judgment - restoration - judgment - restoration. On a theological level, the various predictions of judgment link together a chain that includes those under Assyria, Babylonia, Greece, and Rome, culminating in the Great Tribulation foretold in the NT (Matt. 24; Rev. 6–19). Promises of restoration have come about historically in the deliverance of Jerusalem from Assyria, in the return from Babylonian captivity, and in the victories of the Maccabees.