1.

Micah ii. 13. See our remarks on Gen. xviii. 4, 5. The passage is also Messianically

quoted in the Midrash on Prov. vi. (ed. Lemberg, p. 5 a, first two lines).

The promise in Micah iv. 3 is applied to the times of the Messiah in the Talmud (Shabb.

63 a).

So is the prediction in verse 5 in Shemoth R. 15; while verse 8 is thus commented upon

in the Targum: 'And thou Messiah of Israel, Who shalt be hidden on account of the sins

of Zion, to thee shall the Kingdom come.'

The well-know passage, Micah v . 2, is admittedly Messianic. So in the Targum, in the

Pirqé de R. Eliez. c. 3, and by later Rabbis.

Verse 3 is applied in the Talmud to the fact that the Messiah was not to come till the

hostile kingdom had spread for nine months over the whole world (Yoma 10 a), or else,

over the whole land of Israel (Sanh. 98 b).

Similarly Micah vii. 6 is applied to Messianic times in Sanh. 97 a, and in Sotah 49 b; also

in the Midr. on Cant. ii. 13. And so is verse 15 in Yalkut (vol. ii. p. 112 b. )

In Micah vii. 8, the expression, Jehovah shall be light to me, is referred to the days of the

Messiah in Deb. R. 11, ed. Warsh. vol. v. p. 22 a.

Nahum ii. 1. See our remarks on Is. lii. 7.

Habakkuk ii. 3. This is applied to Messianic times in a remarkable passage in Sanh. 97 b,

which will be quoted in full at the close of this Appendix; also in Yalkut, vol. ii. p. 83 b.

Habakkuk iii. 18 is applied to Messianic times in the Targum.

Zephaniah iii. 8. The words rendered in our A.V. 'the day that I rise up to the prey' are

translated 'for testimony' and applied to God's bearing testimony for the Messiah (Yalkut,

vol. ii. p. 84 c, line 6 from the top).

Verse 9 is applied to the voluntary conversion of the Gentiles in the days of the Messiah

in the Talmud (Abhod. Zarah, 24 a); and in Ber. R. 88; and verse 11 in Sanh. 98 a.

Haggai ii. 6 is expressly applied to the coming redemption in Deb. R. 1 (ed. Warsh. p. 4

b, line 15 from the top).

Zech. i. 20. The four carpenters there spoken of are variously interpreted in the Talmud

(Sukk. 52 b ), and in the Midrash (Bemidbar R. 14). But both agree that one of them refers

to the Messiah.