Isaiah 13:17
I will.3-5; 21:2; 41:25; Jer 50:9; 51:11,27,28; Da 5:28-31shall not regard.Pr 6:34,35Isaiah 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 45:1-2
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 2:6 go before.13:4-17make.40:4; 42:16; Ac 1:15; Lu 3:5break.Ps 107:16Daniel 5:31
Darius.This was Cyaxares, son of Astyages, king of Media, and maternal uncle to Cyrus, who allowed him the title of his conquests, as long as he lived. 6:1; 9:1being. Chal. he as the son of, etc. about. or, now.Daniel 6:28
and in.1:21; 2Ch 36:22,23; Ezr 1:1,2; Isa 44:28; 45:1Daniel 8:3-4
I lifted.10:5; Nu 24:2; Jos 5:13; 1Ch 21:16; Zec 1:18; 2:1; 5:1,5,9; 6:1a ram.The Medo-Persian empire, of which a ram was the ensign; and a ram's head with horns, one higher than the other, is still to be seen on the ruins of Persepolis. 20; 2:39; 7:5one.Media was the more ancient kingdom; but Persia, after Cyrus, was the most considerable. 5:31; 6:28; Ezr 1:2; 4:5; Es 1:3; Isa 13:17; 21:2; 44:28; Jer 51:11the other. Heb. the second. pushing.5:30; 7:5; 11:2; Isa 45:1-5; Jer 50:1-51:64neither.8:7; Job 10:7; Ps 7:2; 50:22; Mic 5:8but.5:19; 11:3,16,36; Isa 10:13,14Daniel 8:20
3; 11:1,2Daniel 9:1
1 Daniel, considering the time of the captivity,3 makes confession of sins,16 and prays for the restoration of Jerusalem.20 Gabriel informs him of the seventy weeks. A.M. 3466. B.C. 538. Darius.1:21; 5:31; 6:1,28; 11:1Ahasuerus.This was the Astyages of the heathen historians; as we learn from Tobit 14:15, where the taking of Nineveh is ascribed to Nebuchadnezzar and Assuerus, who were the same with Nabopolassar and Astyages. which. or, in which he, etc.
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