1Sa 2:7-8, Est 4:14, Isa 10:5-6, 45:1-3, Jer 27:6-7, Dan 4:22 | TSK | STEP

1Sa 17:29; 2Ki 19:3; Ne 6:11The fact related in this verse was unquestionably the reason why Esther was raised to regal honours, by the overruling providence of God: she was therefore bound in gratitude to do this service for God, else she would not have answered the end of her elevation: and she need not fear the miscarriage of the enterprise, for if God designed her for it, he would surely bear her through and give success. It appeared by the event that Mordecai spoke prophetically, when he modestly conjectured that Esther came to the kingdom that she might be the instrument of the Jews' deliverance. Mordecai thoroughly believed that it was a cause which one way or other would certainly be carried, and which, therefore, she might safely venture upon. Instruments might fail, but God's covenant cannot. There is a wise design in all the providences of God, which is unknown to us till it is accomplished; but it will prove in the issue that all is intended for and centre in the good of those who trust in Him.

Isaiah 10:5-6

O Assyrian. or, Woe to the Assyrian. Heb. O Asshur.

Ge 10:11

the rod.

15; 8:4; 14:5,6; Ps 17:14; 125:3; Jer 51:20-24

and. or, though.

against.

9:17; 19:17; 29:13; 30:9-11; 33:14; Jer 3:10; 4:14; Mt 15:7

will I give.

13,14; 37:26,27; 41:25; 45:1-5; Jer 25:9; 34:22; 47:6,7

tread them. Heb. lay them a treading.

22:5; 63:3,6; 2Sa 22:43; Mic 7:10; Zec 10:5

Isaiah 45:1-3

1 God calls Cyrus for his church's sake.

5 By his omnipotency he challenges obedience.

20 He convinces the idols of vanity by his saving power.

to his.

13:3; 44:28; 1Ki 19:15; Jer 27:6

whose.

41:13; 42:6; Ps 73:23

holden. or, strengthened.

Eze 30:21-24

to subdue.

41:2,25; Ezr 1:1; Jer 50:3,35; 51:11,20-24; Da 5:6,28-30; 7:5; 8:3

to open.All the streets of Babylon, leading on each side to the river, were secured by two leaved brazen gates, and these were providentially left open when Cyrus's forces entered the city in the night, through the channel of the river, in the general disorder occasioned by the great feast which was then celebrated; otherwise, says Herodotus, the Persians would have been shut up in the bed of the river, as in a net, and all destroyed. The gates of the palace were also imprudently opened to ascertain the occasion of the tumult; when the two parties under Gobrias and Gadatas rushed in, got possession of the palace, and slew the king.

Na 2:6

go before.

13:4-17

make.

40:4; 42:16; Ac 1:15; Lu 3:5

break.

Ps 107:16

I will give.

Jer 27:5-7; 50:37; 51:53; Eze 29:19,20

that thou.

41:23; Ezr 1:2

which call.