Isaiah 45:1
This is what the Lord says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut:
Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
Note have…: or, strengthened
The Lord says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held to subdue nations before him and strip kings of their armor, to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:
Thus saith Jehovah to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him, and I will loose the loins of kings; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- to his
- Isaiah 13:3; Isaiah 44:28; 1 Kings 19:15; Jeremiah 27:6
- whose
- Isaiah 41:13; Isaiah 42:6; Psalm 73:23
- holden
- or, strengthened.
- Ezekiel 30:21–24
- to subdue
- Isaiah 41:2, 25; Ezra 1:1; Jeremiah 50:3, 35; Jeremiah 51:11, 20–24; Daniel 5:6, 28–30; Daniel 7:5; Daniel 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.
- Nahum 2:6