Isa 14:2, 45:1-3, Jer 27:7, 50:9, 41, 51:6, 27-28, Dan 5:28, Hab 2:8-16 | TSK | STEP | and the house. and they. whose captives they were. Heb. that had taken them captives.they shall rule over.

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.

43:1; 48:15; 49:1; Ex 33:12,17

Jeremiah 27:7

all.

25:11-14; 50:9,10; 52:31; 2Ch 36:20,21

until.

25:12; 50:27; Ps 37:13; 137:8,9; Isa 13:1,8-22; 14:22,23; 21:9

Isa 47:1-5

Da 5:25-31; Hab 2:7; Zec 2:8,9; Re 13:5-10; 14:8,15-20; 16:19

Re 17:16,17; 18:2-8

many.

25:14; 50:1-51:64; Isa 14:4-6

Jeremiah 50:9

I will raise.

3,21,26,41,42; 15:14; 51:1-4,11,27,28; Ezr 1:1,2; Isa 13:2-5,17

Isa 21:2; 41:25; 45:1-4

an assembly.The army of Cyrus was composed of Medes, Persians, Armenians, Caducians, Sacæ, etc.; all of which, arranged under the Medes, came from the north.

they shall.

14,29

expert man. or, destroyer. none.

2Sa 1:22; Isa 13:18

Jeremiah 50:41

2,3,9; 6:22,23; 25:14; 51:1,2,11,27,28; Isa 13:2-5,17,18; Re 17:16

Jeremiah 51:6

Flee.

9,45,50; 50:8,28; Isa 48:20; Zec 2:6,7; Re 18:4

be not.

Ge 19:15-17; Nu 16:26; Pr 13:20; 1Ti 5:22

for this.

11; 27:7; 46:10; 50:8,15,28,31; De 32:25,41,43; Re 16:19; 18:5,6

he will render.

25:14,16

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