Isaiah 13:18
shall dash.16; 2Ki 8:12; Ho 13:16; Na 2:1; 3:10their eye.2Ch 36:17; Eze 9:5,6,10Isaiah 21:2
grievous. Heb. hard.Ps 60:3; Pr 13:15the treacherous.24:16; 33:1; 1Sa 24:13; Jer 51:44,48,49,53; Re 13:10Go up.13:2-4,17,18; Jer 50:14,34; 49:34; 51:11,27,28; Da 5:28; 8:20all the.14:1-3; 35:10; 47:6; Ps 12:5; 79:11; 137:1-3; Jer 31:11,12,20,25Jer 45:3; 51:3,4; La 1:22; Mic 7:8-10; Zec 1:15,16Isaiah 41:25
I have.Jehovah here, by the mouth of the prophet, predicts the victories of Cyrus over the Chaldeans and their allies, at least 150 years before the event, as one instance of his foreknowledge and invincible power. Media lay north of Babylon, and Persia eastward; and Cyrus commanded the forces of both these nations; and, by his wonderful success, he trampled down mighty monarchs as mortar, and as the potter treads the clay. raised.21:2; 44:28; 45:1-6,13; 46:10,11; Jer 51:27-29shall he call.Ezr 1:2,3come upon.2; 10:6; 2Sa 22:43; Mic 7:10; Zec 10:5Isaiah 45:1
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 27:6whose.41:13; 42:6; Ps 73:23holden. or, strengthened.Eze 30:21-24to subdue.41:2,25; Ezr 1:1; Jer 50:3,35; 51:11,20-24; Da 5:6,28-30; 7:5; 8:3to 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 2:6Isaiah 45:5
the Lord.14-18,21,22; 44:8; 46:9; De 4:35,39; 32:39; 1Ki 8:60; Joe 2:27Joh 1:1; Heb 1:8,9I girded thee.22:21; Ezr 1:2; Job 12:18,21; Ps 18:32,39Isaiah 46:11
Calling.13:2-4; 21:7-9; 41:2,25; 45:1-6; Jer 50:29; 51:20-29a ravenous bird.Or, "an eagle," a very proper emblem for Cyrus, says Bp. Lowth, as in other respects, so particularly because the ensign of Cyrus was a golden eagle, [aetos chrusous,] the very word {ayit,} which the prophet uses here, expressed as near as may be in Greek letters. Eze 39:4the man.44:28; 45:13; 48:14,15; Ezr 1:2; Ps 76:10; Ac 4:28that executeth my counsel. Heb. of my counsel.Ps 119:24; *marg:I have spoken.14:24-27; 38:15; Nu 23:19; Job 23:13; Jer 50:45; Ac 5:39; Eph 1:11Eph 3:11Revelation of John 17:16-17
the ten.2,10,12these.The ten horns, which the angel explained of "ten kings" or kingdoms, and which once exalted and supported her ecclesiastical tyranny, will hate, desolate, strip, and devour her. They will be the principal instruments in the destruction of popery and the ruin of Rome itself. 1,2,13; 16:12; Isa 13:17,18; Jer 50:41,42and naked.18:16,17; Eze 16:37-44; 23:45-49eat.Job 31:31; Ps 27:2; Da 7:5and burn.18:8,16; Le 21:9 God hath.13; Ac 4:27,28put.Ezr 7:27; Ps 105:25; Pr 21:1; Jer 32:40; 2Th 2:10-12; Jas 1:13-17to fulfil.Lu 22:3,22,37; Joh 13:2,18until.6:11; 10:7; 15:1; Pr 19:21; Isa 45:17; 46:10,11; Jer 27:6,7Eze 38:16,17; Da 12:7; Joh 10:35; 12:39,40; 19:24,28
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