Isa 45 | TSK | STEP | God calls Cyrus for his church's sake. By his omnipotency he challenges obedience. He convinces the idols of vanity by his saving power. to his. whose. holden. or, strengthened. to subdue. 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.

Isaiah 45

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 27:6

whose.

41:13; 42:6; Ps 73:23

holden. or, strengthened.

Eze 30:21-24

to subdue.

41:2,25; Ezr 1:1; Jer 50:3,35; 51:11,20-24; Da 5:6,28-30; 7:5; 8:3

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

37:20; 1Sa 17:46,47; Ps 46:10; 83:18; 102:15,16; Eze 38:23; 39:21

Mal 1:11

form.

Ge 1:3-5,17,18; Ps 8:3; 104:20-23; Jer 31:35; 2Co 4:6; Jas 1:17

create darkness.

Ex 10:21-23; 14:20; Jer 13:16; Eze 32:8; Joe 2:2; Am 4:13; Na 1:8

Jude 1:6,13

I make Peace.

10:5,6; Job 2:10; 34:29; Ps 29:11; 75:7; Ec 7:13,14; Jer 18:7-10

Jer 51:20; Eze 14:15-21; Am 3:6; 5:6; Ac 4:28

Drop down.

32:15; 44:3; Ps 72:3,6; 85:9-12; Eze 34:26; Ho 10:12; 14:5-8

Joe 2:28,29; 3:18; Ac 2:33; Tit 3:3-6

let the earth.

4:2; 11:1; 53:2; 61:3,11; 1Co 3:6-9

I the Lord.

65:17,18; 66:22; Jer 31:22; Eph 2:10; 4:24

unto him.

64:8; Ex 9:16,17; Job 15:24-26; 40:8,9; Ps 2:2-9; Pr 21:30

Jer 50:24; 1Co 10:22

Shall the clay.

10:15; 29:16; Jer 18:6; Ro 9:20,21

De 27:16; Mal 1:6; Heb 12:9

the Holy One.

43:3,7,15,21; 48:17

Ask.

Jer 33:3; Eze 36:37; Da 2:18; 9:2,3,24-27; Mr 11:24

concerning my sons.

Jer 3:19; 31:1,9; Ho 1:10; Ro 9:4-8; 2Co 6:18; Ga 3:26-29

concerning the work.

29:23; 43:7; 60:21; Eph 2:10

command.

Ge 32:26; Jud 16:23; Jos 10:12; Ho 12:4

made the earth.

18; 40:28; 42:5; Ge 1:26,27; Ps 102:25; Heb 11:3

my hands.

40:12,22; 44:24; Jer 27:5; 32:17; Zec 12:1

all their host.

Ge 2:1; Ne 9:6

raised him.

1-6; 41:2,25; 46:11; 48:14,15

in righteousness.

42:6; Ps 65:5

direct. or, make straight.

1,2

he shall build.

44:28; 52:5; 2Ch 36:22,23; Ezr 1:3-11

let go

49:25; 52:2,3; Ro 3:24-26; 1Pe 1:18,19

price

13:17

The labour.

18:7; 19:23-25; 23:18; 49:23; 60:5-16; 61:5,6; 66:19,20; Ps 68:30,31

Ps 72:10-15; Zec 8:22,23

the Sabeans.That the Sabeans were of a most majestic appearance is particularly remarked by Agatharchides, an ancient Greek historian quoted by Bochart.

Job 1:15; Eze 23:42; Joe 3:8

men of stature.

10:33; Nu 13:32; 2Sa 21:20; Eze 31:3

in chains.

14:2; 49:23; Ps 149:6,8

they shall fall.

60:14; 61:5,9; Ex 11:8; Es 8:17; Ac 10:25,26; Re 3:9

Surely.

24; Jer 16:19; Zec 8:20-23; 1Co 8:4-6; 14:25; 1Th 1:9

and there.

5,6; 44:8

a God.