Isaiah 45:1
This is what Yahweh says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I hold, 1 in order to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, 1 and to open the doors before him, so that gates remain open: 1
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1 Kings 19:15Then Yahweh said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus, and when you arrive you will anoint Hazael to be king over Aram,
Ezra 1:2“Cyrus, king of Persia, says: Yahweh, God of Heaven, gave me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he appointed me to build for him a house in Jerusalem in Judea.
Psalms 73:23Yet I am always with you; 1 you hold my right hand. 1
Isaiah 13:3I have commanded my holy ones, 1 yes, I have called my mighty men to execute my anger, even my proudly exulting ones. 1
Isaiah 41:13For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, 1 saying to you, 'Do not fear; I am helping you.' 1
Isaiah 42:6“I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness and will hold your hand. 1 I will keep you and set you as a covenant for the people, as a light for the Gentiles, 1
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 45:1
Cyrus was nominated, in the foregoing chapter, to be God's shepherd; more is said to him and more of him in this chapter, not only because he was to be instrumental in the release of the Jews out of their captivity, but because he was to be therein a type of the great Redeemer, and that release was to be typical of the great redemption from sin and death; for that was the salvation of which all the prophets witnessed. We have here, I. The great things which God would do for Cyrus, that he might be put into a… Read the whole commentary →