1Ki 11:14, 23, 1Ch 5:26, 2Ch 36:22, Ezr 1:1, Isa 10:26, 13:17, Jer 51:27-28 | TSK | STEP

A.M. 3468. B.C. 536.This verse and the next have a double aspect. They look back to the prophecy of Jeremiah, and show how that was accomplished; and they look forward to the history of Ezra, which begins with a repetition of these two last verses.

in the first.

Ezr 1:1-3

Cyrus.

Isa 44:28; Da 10:1

that the word.

21; Jer 25:12,14; 29:10; 32:42-44; 33:10-14; Heb 10:23

the Lord stirred.

21:16; 1Sa 26:19; 1Ki 11:14,23; 1Ch 5:26; Ezr 1:5

Isa 13:3-5,17,18; 44:28; 45:1-5; Hag 1:14

a proclamation.

24:9; 30:5

Ezra 1:1

1 The proclamation of Cyrus for the building of the temple.

5 The people provide for their return.

7 Cyrus restores the vessels of the temple to Sheshbazzar.

Now in the.

2Ch 36:22,23

Cyrus.Cyrus is said to have been the son of Cambyses, king of Persia, and Mandane, daughter of Astyages, king of Media: he was born about 600 years before Christ, and died at the age of 70, after a reign of 30 years. He was mentioned by name, and his conquests foretold, by the prophet Isaiah, about a century before his birth. Josephus states the partiality he evinced towards the Jews, arose from the circumstance of these prophecies being shown him, probably by Daniel.

by the mouth.

Jer 25:12-14; 29:10; 33:7-13

the Lord.

5:13-15; 6:22; 7:27; Ps 106:46; Pr 21:1; Da 2:1

made a proclamation. Heb. caused a voice to pass.

Mt 3:1-3; Joh 1:23

Isaiah 10:26

stir up.

16-19; 2Ki 19:35; Ps 35:23

according.

9:4; Jud 7:25; Ps 83:11

his rod.

24; 11:16; 51:9,10; Ex 14:25-27; Ne 9:10,11; Ps 106:10,11

Hab 3:7-15; Re 11:18; 19:15

Isaiah 13:17

I will.

3-5; 21:2; 41:25; Jer 50:9; 51:11,27,28; Da 5:28-31

shall not regard.

Pr 6:34,35

Jeremiah 51:27-28

ye up.

12; 6:1; 50:2,41; Isa 13:2-5; 18:3; Am 3:6; Zec 14:2

prepare.

25:14

Ararat.Bochart reasonably concludes Ararat and Minni to be the greater and lesser Armenia; and Ashchenaz he thinks formed part of Phrygia near the Hellespont, part of that country being called Ascania by Homer. Cyrus had conquered Armenia, defeated Croesus king of Lydia, (B.C. 548,) and subdued several nations from the Egean sea to the Euphrates, before he marched against Babylon; and Xenophon also informs us that there were not only Armenians, but both Phrygians and Cappadocians in the army of Cyrus.

Ge 8:4

Ashchenaz.

Ge 10:3

Ashkenaz.

1Ch 1:6

cause.

14; 46:23; 50:41,42; Jud 6:5; Joe 2:2,3; Na 3:15-17; Re 9:7-11After Cyrus had been the instrument in the hands of God of taking Babylon, he marched against Tomyris, queen of the Massagetæ, a Scythian nation, and was totally defeated, (B.C. 530.) The victorious queen, who had lost her son in a previous battle, was so incensed against Cyrus, that she cut off his head, and threw it into a vessel filled with human blood, exclaiming, "Sattia te sanguine, quem sitisti."

the kings.

11; 25:25; Ge 10:2; 1Ch 1:5

Madia.

Es 1:3; 10:2; Isa 13:17; 21:2; Da 5:28-30; 6:8; 8:3,4,20; 9:1