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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 45:1-4

Cyrus was a Mede, descended (as some say) from Astyages king of Media. The pagan writers are not agreed in their accounts of his origin. Some tell us that in his infancy he was an outcast, left exposed, and was saved from perishing by a herdsman's wife. However, it is agreed that, being a man of an active genius, he soon made himself very considerable, especially when Croesus king of Lydia made a descent upon his country, which he not only repulsed, but revenged, prosecuting the advantages he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 45:1

Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus ,.... Cyrus is called the Lord's anointed, not because he was anointed with material oil, as the kings of Israel and Judah were; but because he was appointed by the Lord to be a king, and was qualified by him for that office; and was raised up by him to be an instrument of doing great things in the world, and particularly of delivering the Jews from their captivity, and restoring them to their own land: whose right hand I have holden ; whom... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 45:2

I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight ,.... Or, "level the hilly places" F3 The Septuagint render the word by ορη , mountains; Gussetius by eminences, high places, such as stood in the way of passage into countries. The Vulgate Latin interprets it of glorious persons; and Abendana says it is right to understand it in this way; and applies it to Zerubbabel, and those that went up with him to Jerusalem, with the leave of Cyrus, who were good men, and honourable in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 45:3

And I will give thee treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places ,.... What had been laid up in private places, and had not seen the light for many years. The Jewish Rabbins say F6 Vide Abendana in Miclol Yophi in Ioc. , that Nebuchadnezzar having amassed together all the riches of the world, when he drew near his end, considered with himself to whom he should leave it; and being unwilling to leave it to Evilmerodach, he ordered ships of brass to be built, and filled them... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 45:1

Loose the loins of kings "ungird the loins of kings" - See the note on Isaiah 5:27 . Xenophon gives the following list of the nations conquered by Cyrus: the Syrians, Assyrians, Arabians, Cappadocians, both the Phrygians, Lydians, Carians, Phoenicians, Babylonians. He moreover reigned over the Bactrians, Indians, Cilicians, the Sacae Paphlagones, and ldariandyni. - Cyrop., lib. 1 p. 4, Edit. Hutchinson, Quarto. All these kingdoms he acknowledges, in his decree for the restoration of the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 45:2

The crooked places "The mountains" - For הדורים hodurim , crooked places, a word not easily accounted for in this place, the Septuagint read הררים hararim , τα ορη , the mountains. Two MSS. have הדרים hadarim , without the ו vau , which is hardly distinguishable from the reading of the Septuagint. The Divine protection that attended Cyrus, and rendered his expedition against Babylon easy and prosperous is finely expressed by God's going before him, and making the mountains... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 45:3

I will gave thee the treasures of darkness - Sardes and Babylon, when taken by Cyrus, were the wealthiest cities in the world. Croesus, celebrated beyond all the kings of that age for his riches, gave up his treasures to Cyrus, with an exact account in writing of the whole, containing the particulars with which each wagon was loaded when they were carried away; and they were delivered to Cyrus at the palace of Babylon. - Xenoph. Cyrop. lib. 7 p. 503, 515, 540. Pliny gives the following... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 45:1

Thus saith the Lord to his anointed . The "anointed of Jehovah" is elsewhere always either an Israelite king, or the expected Deliverer of the nation, "Messiah the Prince" ( Daniel 9:25 ). This Deliverer, however, was to be of the line of David ( Isaiah 11:1 ), and of the city of Bethlehem ( Micah 5:2 ), so that we can scarcely suppose Isaiah to have seen him in Cyrus. But he may have seen in Cyrus a type of the great Deliverer, as he saw in the release of Israel from the power of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 45:1-5

The unfelt hand on the human heart. Of this passage the most striking and inviting words are those in the fourth and fifth verses: "I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me;" "I girded thee, though thou hast not known me." But while these sentences furnish the theme of consideration, the other part of the passage suggests three particular things in which the prophetic word was fulfilled. 1 . The opening of the gates of brass ( Isaiah 45:1 ), fulfilled during the capture of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 45:1-7

GOD 'S WILL CONCERNING HIM ANNOUNCED TO CYRUS . This direct address of God to a heathen king is without a parallel in Scripture. Nebuchadnezzar, Pharaoh, Abimelech, were warned through dreams. Nebuchadnezzar was even promised Divine aid ( Ezekiel 30:24 , Ezekiel 30:25 ). But no heathen monarch had previously been personally addressed by God, much less called "his anointed," and spoken to by his name ( Isaiah 45:4 ). Three motives are mentioned for this special favour... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 45:1-4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 45:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 45:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 45:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 45:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 45:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 45:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 45:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 45:1-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 45:1-7

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