Micah 5:2 → 1 Samuel 17:12

1 Samuel 17:12, in plain genealogical prose, fixes David's origin with a distinctive double-tag: "David was the son of a man named Jesse, an Ephrathite from Bethlehem of Judah." This is the verse that explicitly welds the clan-name Ephrathite (אֶפְרָתִי, ʾep̄rāṯî) to the village Bethlehem as the seat of the Davidic house. Micah 5:2 reactivates precisely that double-tag — "But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah (בֵּית־לֶחֶם אֶפְרָתָה), who are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come forth for Me One to be ruler over Israel" — so that the eschatological Ruler is located by the very Bethlehem-Ephrathite identity that named David's father's house. The link is Allusion, not loose Echo: it is the specific, distinctive pairing of village and clan-name (not a generic Bethlehem resonance) that Micah picks up. The method is Redemptive-Historical Progression carried by the Longitudinal Theme of the Davidic origin — the prose pedigree of David in Samuel advances along the canonical line into Micah's promise of a coming Ruler from the same town and stock. (Not typology: 1 Samuel 17:12 is a genealogical notice, not itself a figure escalating into Christ — the Davidic person is the type, treated in TT 041; and not Promise-Fulfillment, which belongs to the NT uptake of Micah, not to this OT-to-OT naming link.) The telos: the Ruler "whose origins are of old, from the days of eternity" stoops to be born in the same small Ephrathite village that bore Jesse's youngest son — the eternal Son condescending to the most ordinary human pedigree, so that the smallness of Bethlehem becomes the place we behold and savor the glory of the One who shepherds His flock in the strength of the LORD.