Isa 44:28-45:5, Dan 2:32, 5:28-31, 7:5, 8:3-4, 20, 11:2 | TSK | STEP

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

Jacob.

41:8,9; 43:3,4,14; 44:1; Ex 19:5,6; Jer 50:17-20; Mt 24:22

Mr 13:20; Ro 9:6; 11:7

I have even.

1; 44:28

though.

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 2:27

Joh 1:1; Heb 1:8,9

I girded thee.

22:21; Ezr 1:2; Job 12:18,21; Ps 18:32,39

Daniel 2:32

head.

37,38; 4:22,30; 7:4; Isa 14:4; Jer 51:7; Re 17:4

breast.

39; 7:5; 8:3,4; 11:2

belly.

39; 7:6; 8:5-8; 11:3-20

thighs. or, sides.

Daniel 5:28-31

PERES.Peres,"he was divided," pronounced paras, denoted Persians, who seem evidently referred to.

Thy.

31; 6:28; 8:3,4,20; 9:1; Isa 13:17; 21:2; 45:1,2

they clothed.

7,16

1,2; Isa 21:4-9; 47:9; Jer 51:11,31,39,57

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; 9:1

being. Chal. he as the son of, etc. about. or, now.

Daniel 7:5

another.

2:39; 8:3; 2Ki 2:24; Pr 17:12; Ho 13:8

itself on one side. or, one dominion.

5:28; 8:4; 11:2

three ribs.Babylon, Lydia, and Egypt.

Arise.

Isa 13:17,18; 56:9; Jer 50:21-32; Eze 39:17-20

Daniel 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; 6:1

a 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; 7:5

one.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 51:11

the other. Heb. the second.

pushing.

5:30; 7:5; 11:2; Isa 45:1-5; Jer 50:1-51:64

neither.

8:7; Job 10:7; Ps 7:2; 50:22; Mic 5:8

but.

5:19; 11:3,16,36; Isa 10:13,14