Isaiah 41:2
Who raised.25; 45:13; 46:11; Ge 11:31; 12:1-3; 17:1; Heb 11:8-10the righteous man. Heb. righteousness.gave.15; 45:1; Ge 14:14,15; Ezr 1:2; Heb 7:1as the.15,16; 2Sa 22:43; 2Ki 13:7as driven.40:24Isaiah 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 45:1-6
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 107:16 I will give.Jer 27:5-7; 50:37; 51:53; Eze 29:19,20that thou.41:23; Ezr 1:2which call.43:1; 48:15; 49:1; Ex 33:12,17 Jacob.41:8,9; 43:3,4,14; 44:1; Ex 19:5,6; Jer 50:17-20; Mt 24:22Mr 13:20; Ro 9:6; 11:7I have even.1; 44:28though.Ac 17:23; Ga 4:8,9; Eph 2:12; 1Th 4:5 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 18:32,39 37:20; 1Sa 17:46,47; Ps 46:10; 83:18; 102:15,16; Eze 38:23; 39:21Mal 1:11Isaiah 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 3:11Isaiah 48:14-15
assemble.41:22; 43:9; 44:7; 45:20,21among them.Instead of {bahem,} "among them," thirty-five MSS. and two editions have {bachem,} "among you." The Lord.Rather, "He whom the Lord hath loved, will execute his will on Babylon:" that is, Cyrus. 45:1-3; Mr 10:21he will do.13:4,5,17,18; 44:28; 46:11; Jer 50:21-29; 51:20-24 Jos 1:8; Ps 45:4; Eze 1:2
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