Isaiah 41:2

Who has stirred up one from the east, calling him in righteousness to his service? 1 He hands nations over to him and helps him subdue kings. 1 He turns them to dust with his sword, like windblown stubble with his bow. 1

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Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.

In Context

1“Listen before me in silence, you coastlands; let the nations renew their strength; 1 let them come near and speak; let us come near together to argue a dispute. 1

3He pursues them and passes by safely, by a swift path that his feet scarcely touch. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 11:31Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of his son Haran, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and together they left Ur of the Chaldeans, to go into the land of Canaan. But they came to Haran and stayed there.

Genesis 14:14Now when Abram heard that enemies had captured his relative, he led out his 318 trained men who had been born in his house, and he pursued them as far as Dan.

2 Samuel 22:43I beat them into fine pieces like dust on the ground, 1 I pulverized them like mud in the streets. 1

2 Chronicles 36:23“This is what Cyrus, king of Persia, says: Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth. He has commanded me to build a house for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you from all his people, may Yahweh your God, be with you. Let him go up to the land.”

Isaiah 40:24They are barely planted, barely sown, their stem has barely taken root in the earth, 1 when he blows upon them and they wither, and the wind carries them away like straw. 1

Isaiah 41:25I have raised up one from the north, and he comes; from the sun's rising I summon him who calls on my name, 1 and he will trample the rulers like mud, like a potter who is treading on the clay. 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 41:2-10

Idolatry Exposed. ( b. c. 708.) 1 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment. 2 Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow. 3 He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet. 4 Who hath wrought and done it,… Read the whole commentary →

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